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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People

by Thomas Keightley

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Foraging New England: Edible Wild Food and Medicinal Plants from Maine to the Adirondacks to Long Island Sound (Foraging Series) by Tom Seymour

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New England literally has too much for the forager to sample in one lifetime.

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Christa’s Quotes

“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”
― W.B. Yeats

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“the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: courage

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“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: bitter, bitterness, bukowski, death, in-the-end, individuality, life, love, personality, poem, poetry, self, soul

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“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

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“There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
― Manny Rayner

tags: irony, sociology

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