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Lisa’s favorite books

Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks

I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! by Bob Newhart

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Patty Hearst by Patricia Campbell Hearst

Sight Hound by Pam Houston

The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf

Ida by Carol Crawford McManus

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

A Good Life by Ben Bradlee

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The Ghostwriter

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The Ghostwriter

by Julie Clark (Goodreads Author)

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai

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Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Non-fiction, Religion, and Spirituality

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