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Emma

by Jane Austen

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Apr 28, 2016 09:48PM

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A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)

by Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 10, 2026 06:43PM

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The Garden Plot (Potting Shed Mystery, #1)

by Marty Wingate (Goodreads Author)

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“Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind.”
― Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Vol. 2

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“Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.”
― Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one-- / For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown--”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Poetry

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“I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.”
― C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

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The Agatha Christie Reading Group — 447 members — last activity Dec 19, 2023 05:12AM
Want an opportunity to use your "little gray cells"? Join us for monthly group reads and discussions! Feel free to talk. Anytime. About Christie. Yo ...more

The Pickwick Club — 381 members — last activity Apr 04, 2020 10:42AM
Welcome to the Pickwick Club! This group is dedicated to reading, discussing, critiquing, and devouring the works of Charles Dickens.

The Immortal Poets Society — 130 members — last activity May 12, 2024 04:14AM
We read and discuss poetry from Homer to Frost. We are mostly interested in English and American poetry from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Robert Fros ...more

Victorians! — 3796 members — last activity Apr 18, 2026 11:00AM
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more

Jane Austen July 2025 — 1555 members — last activity Aug 11, 2025 11:13AM
Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon, all about reading Jane Austen and related works. ---The Challenges--- 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six ...more

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