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The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake

by Rachel Linden (Goodreads Author)

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The Wedding People

by Alison Espach

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“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

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

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“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

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“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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