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Karen’s favorite books

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein The 36-Hour Day by Nancy L. Mace The War of Art by Steven Pressfield God Meant it for Good by R.T. Kendall Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Suspense, Thriller, War, and Women's Fiction


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