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Karen’s favorite books

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 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 Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers 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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Gone Before Goodbye
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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
tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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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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