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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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The Wild Oats Project
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
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No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
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The Birth of Venus
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The Gallery of Lost Species
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Death by Water (Phryne Fisher, #15)
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
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Sarah
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Flight Behavior
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The Circus of Ghosts (The Mesmerist, #2)
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The Castlemaine Murders (Phryne Fisher, #13)
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Nobody Is Ever Missing
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Flight of Dreams
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Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher, #18)
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Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
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Anne of Windy Poplars
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Journey to the River Sea
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The Awakening
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Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher, #19)
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy
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Moxie
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Excellent Women
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Cooking the Books (Corinna Chapman, #6)
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Power: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse
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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle, #9)
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A Far Cry from Kensington
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
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Trick or Treat (Corinna Chapman, #4)
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Bad Feminist
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Crown of Blood
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The Secret History
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Prodigal Summer
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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
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Misdirected
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
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My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
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Goodbye Tsugumi
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Six Metres of Pavement
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Heavenly Pleasures (Corinna Chapman, #2)
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The Robber Bride
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The Lying Game
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Year of Wonders
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The Painted Bridge
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Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
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Devil's Food (Corinna Chapman, #3)
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Reign of Fire (The Oath Saga, #3)
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4.41 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Glass Ocean
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Beatriz Williams (Goodreads Author)
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And Also Sharks
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Mad Love
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The Postmistress (Maiden's Creek #1)
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Alison Stuart (Goodreads Author)
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This Cake is for the Party: Stories
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The Postmistress
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Sarah Blake (Goodreads Author)
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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The Stationery Shop of Tehran
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Out of the Black Land
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Viper Wine
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Boy, Snow, Bird
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Our Dogs, Ourselves
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Maidenhead
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Bless Her Dead Little Heart (Southern Ladies Mystery #1)
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
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The Accidental Empress (Sisi, #1)
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Under the Visible Life
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The Silence of the Library (Cat in the Stacks #5)
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The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
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The Telling
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
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Sisi: Empress on Her Own
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Out of Circulation (Cat in the Stacks #4)
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Sleep Donation
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
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File M for Murder (Cat in the Stacks #3)
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The Mermaid's Child
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Sad Janet
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Classified as Murder (Cat in the Stacks #2)
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Frenchman's Creek
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Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
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Valerie Taylor: An Adventurous Life: The remarkable story of the trailblazing ocean conservationist, photographer and shark expert
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The Birds and Other Stories
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Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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Imaginary Kings
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Kiss Me Again, Stranger
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The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free
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Against Walls
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Take the Cannoli
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Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
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The Marriage Game
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Possession
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The Parasites
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2260 books
9 friends
9 friends
Mariner Books
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1767 friends
1767 friends
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