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“watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand.”
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“Are human reactions what they've always been, or has a century or more of movies influenced our response to every stimulus”
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Fiction, Food, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Travel, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction


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