Melanie J.

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Melanie is Currently Reading

Melanie J. is currently reading

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

bookshelves: 1-acpl, currently-reading

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Jan 30, 2026 03:39PM

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Home Folks, a Series of Stories by old Settlers of Fulton County, Indiana

by Marguerite L (Marguerite Lillia Miller

bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction

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Jan 25, 2026 04:25PM

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The Incendium Plot (Christopher Radcliff, #1)

by A.D. Swanston

bookshelves: 2-not-libby, currently-reading, historical-fiction, espionage, historical-mystery

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Jan 21, 2026 03:01PM

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Melanie’s Quotes

“... Sometimes what looks like "success" is actually "lost" with better clothes.

- Bread for the Resistance: Forty Devotions for Justice People”
― Donna Barber

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“But if you don't die today, you'll die tomorrow, or the next day. And then the same question will arise. How will you face that terrifying ordeal?”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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