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Stan Schwartz

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Stan’s favorite books

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak

With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates

The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy by David Halberstam

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Black Tower by P.D. James

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

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Down the River Un...

Stan Schwartz is currently reading

Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

by Walter Mosley

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

by Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)

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The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments

by Epictetus

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The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith by Gabrielle Bernstein

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After a lot of exploration, I came to understand that it’s our resistance to love that keeps us in the dark.

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Biography, Business, Children's, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Spirituality, and Thriller

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