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Joan’s favorite books

The World's First Love by Fulton J. Sheen

Life of the Beloved by Henri J.M. Nouwen

Losing Battles by Eudora Welty

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

Interior Castle by Teresa de Ávila

Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick

The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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O Beulah Land

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O Beulah Land (Beulah Quintet #2)

by Mary Lee Settle

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War and Peace

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by Leo Tolstoy

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