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The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)

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The Keeper (Cal Hooper, #3)

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The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power

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We make sense of our lives through stories.

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“It is our way of admitting we were weak and flawed, and that we made mistakes, some inevitable, others foolish, but deep within we appreciated beauty and poetry, too. Each historical artifact, therefore, is a silent plea from ancestors to descendants, “Do not judge us too harshly.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“as she closed her eyes she dropped like a diver in a bell into the depths of sleep.”
― Paul Harding, This Other Eden

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“An army of tears lay just behind her eyes, but they refused to decamp.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

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“but a story is a flute through which truth breathes.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“why today, now that I am old, I will admit to being a fuzzy-minded socialist, and a weakly committed one at that, a socialist who looks down the ballot, shrugs, and votes for the Democrat candidates despite their shortcomings.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

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