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	Off Campus (Bend or Break, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 4,966 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Nothing Like Paris (Bend or Break, #2) 3.74 avg rating — 1,077 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Glass Tidings 3.78 avg rating — 712 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Next Door (Bend or Break, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 675 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Real World (Bend or Break, #5) 3.85 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HeartShip (Full Hearts, #1) 3.50 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Level Hands (Bend or Break, #4) 3.65 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Me Like a Rock (Bend or Break, #6) 3.97 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bend or Break (7 books)
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Dance Hall Days

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Amy Cousins said: " A 1930s queer London dance hall story (rerelease) coming in Fall 2020! "

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Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age

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In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary

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I'm a huge Expanse fan, and I just started reading the books as I did a full rewatch right before season 6 started up. It's fascinating to see the choices the showrunners made in comparison to the books, most importantly pulling Chrisjen from book tw ...more
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Tana French is one of the most extraordinary mystery novelists working today. Her books blow me away, and The Secret Place is no exception. French manages two timelines brilliantly, a present-day one that takes place over less than 24hrs as police re ...more
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“I mean, you tell me I got a magic button up my ass that’ll make me come my brains out, of course I’m curious. But I’m never gonna go there, because gross.”
― Amy Jo Cousins, Off Campus

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“You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.”
― Amy Jo Cousins, The Girl Next Door

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“Shit-damn, fuck-a-damn, fuck-a-damn-damn, some motherfucker just fucked my man, I'll fuck another fucker better than the other fucker, shit-damn, fuck-a-damn, fuck-a-damn!”
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