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Gods of Jade and Shadow

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)

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Midnight In Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra

by Peter Robb

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Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

by M.E. Thomas

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The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

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We think we know them. We think we love them. But what we love turns out to be a poor translation, a translation we ourselves have made, from a language we barely know. We try to get past it to the original, but we never can. We have seen ...more

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Janessa’s Quotes

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

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“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.”
― Mary Oliver

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