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Jess’s favorite books

1984 by George Orwell The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Red Tent by Anita Diamant The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden No Horizon Is So Far by Liv Arnesen My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
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Pretend to Be Mine
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by Weston Parker (Goodreads Author)
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Mr. Masters
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Rules for the Summer
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by Meghan Quinn (Goodreads Author)
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Jess’s Quotes

Leo Tolstoy
“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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Rahsa
Rahsa
62 books | 23 friends

Nora
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871 books | 7 friends

Marie
Marie
1,020 books | 63 friends

Richelle
Richelle
1,130 books | 85 friends

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Liz Gregg
282 books | 5 friends

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Susan
441 books | 12 friends

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Joee Winter
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Listopia Votes

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Giver by Lois LowryBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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African American, Biography, Book Club, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Philosophy, Politics, and Romance


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