Ben Smither
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon On Writing by Stephen King Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Paradise War by Stephen R. Lawhead The War of Art by Steven Pressfield Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded by Shane Claiborne
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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
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What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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“The path is revealed in the treading.”
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