Mara Bowden

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Mara Bowden

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War and Power

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by Phillips Payson O'Brien

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Behind Five Willows

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Behind Five Willows

by June Hur (Goodreads Author)

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“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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Welcome to the Fox Book Club! This is fun supportive group for anyone wanting to buddy read with me. For 2020, I thought we could read my "20 book ...more

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Mara Bowden has read 19 of 70 books.

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Contemporary, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, Non-fiction, and Sports

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