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Beth’s favorite books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Marley and Me by John Grogan A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara West with the Night by Beryl Markham A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program by Kathleen DesMaisons
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Harlem Shuffle
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Beyond the Tracks
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.”
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Paranormal, Romance, Science, Science fiction, and Thriller


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