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The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)

by Laurie Gilmore (Goodreads Author)

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First Lie Wins

by Ashley Elston (Goodreads Author)

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Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

by Abby Jimenez (Goodreads Author)

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Marlena’s Notes & Highlights

You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley

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“You know who succeeds in life? It’s the people who act. Who do something. Who make decisions.

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work

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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
― Amelia Earhart

tags: bravery, courage, life, peace

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“Adventure is worthwhile.”
― Amelia Earhart

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
― Amelia Earhart

tags: failure, success, women, work

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