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Sarah Bringhurst has lived on five different continents during the past fifteen years, and she's still not sure where she'd like to settle down. In the meantime, she likes reading books, eating cheese, and seeing the world. She's gone to the Philippines with a two-month-old baby, blazed a red-taped paper trail to Italian citizenship, snuck into abandoned regency manor houses in Ireland, and moved to Tunisia the week after the Revolution. Sarah currently lives in Amsterdam with her husband, two children, and one fluffy dog. ...more

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Paradise Interrupted: Romantic Adventures Backpacking Across the Philippines, Baby in Tow

3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014

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On Canaan's Side

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The Borrower

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Salt to the Sea

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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
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“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
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