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Joseph Hess

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

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Author of Rendezvous Moon & Things Far Less Erotic, Luna City, and the Kennedy James Trilogy | Gamer | 🍺 & 🍕 Enthusiast | "Tools for Writers" on Etsy (link on my website) ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 21 ratings · 10 reviews · 5 distinct works

	I Chose Vengeance 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Luna City 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 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
	Rendezvous Moon & Things Far Less Erotic it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2020 — 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
	Bullet & Blade (The Kennedy James Trilogy Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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
	Goodbye, Ross Wellington (The Kennedy James Trilogy Book 3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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

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I Chose Vengeance

Goodbye, Ross Wellington

Kennedy James Trilogy (3 books)
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Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)

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“Some people know they are going to heaven and those they do not like are going to hell. I am going where the Boss puts me. He knows where I belong better than I do.”
― S.P. Dinsmoor

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

tags: insult, poetry

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Russell Banks

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

tags: books

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John Updike

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

tags: to-keep-up-ur-dreams-_

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Albert Einstein

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: wonder

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