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Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)

by Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)

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Easy Weeknight Dinners: 100 Fast, Flavor-Packed Meals for Busy People Who Still Want Something Good to Eat [A Cookbook]

by Emily Weinstein

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Hi, It's Me Again: A Cartoon Collection from the New Yorker's Asher Perlman

by Asher Perlman

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Book cover for 365 Quotes to Live Your Life By: Powerful, Inspiring, & Life-Changing Words of Wisdom to Brighten Up Your Days (Essential Wisdom: Inspiring Quotes, Lessons, & Guides to Live Your Life By Book 1)

365 Quotes to Live Your Life By: Powerful, Inspiring, & Life-Changing Words of Wisdom to Brighten Up Your Days (Essential Wisdom: Inspiring Quotes, Lessons, & Guides to Live Your Life By Book 1) by I.C. Robledo

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Focus on what you can control, not on what you cannot control Focus on the positive, not the negative Focus on what you can do, not on what you cannot do Focus on what you have, not on what you do not have Focus on the present, not on the ...more

A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1)

by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

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Paula’s Quotes

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone

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“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

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