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Every Last Devil (DCI Kett, #16)

by Alex Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Lucky Number Seven (DCI Kett #13)

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Knuckle Bones (DCI Kett #12)

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Edward’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses, #4)

Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses, #4) by Conn Iggulden

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A life was lived like paths forking in the deep forest. Each choice was made and a man or woman had to go on, with no opportunity to return and find a way back to some happier time. All they could do was stumble deeper and deeper in, blind ...more

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Margaret of Anjou

by Conn Iggulden

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Edward’s Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

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“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore

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“Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation

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