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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 33,511 ratings — published 2010
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,016,241 ratings — published 1999
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 482,320 ratings — published 2012
The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 83,663 ratings — published 2011
Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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avg rating 3.83 — 210,670 ratings — published 2000
Messenger (The Giver, #3)
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avg rating 3.92 — 150,216 ratings — published 2004
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 120,212 ratings — published 1940
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,775,340 ratings — published 2012
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 362,676 ratings — published 2014
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 131,797 ratings — published 2013
Alif the Unseen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 17,962 ratings — published 2012
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 993,872 ratings — published 2001
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
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avg rating 4.09 — 238,996 ratings — published 2012
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 207,281 ratings — published 1999
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 14,562 ratings — published 2008
Son (The Giver, #4)
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avg rating 4.00 — 114,975 ratings — published 2012
Before I Fall (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 346,718 ratings — published 2010
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 364,380 ratings — published 1968
The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)
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avg rating 3.98 — 37,399 ratings — published 2011
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,829,208 ratings — published 1993
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,016,983 ratings — published 2012
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 265,345 ratings — published 1929
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 41,718 ratings — published 2011
The Shattered Mountain (Fire and Thorns, #0.6)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,845 ratings — published 2013
The Bitter Kingdom (Fire and Thorns, #3)
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avg rating 4.20 — 37,294 ratings — published 2013
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 240,021 ratings — published 1979
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 196,972 ratings — published 2014
Wait for You (Wait for You, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 169,893 ratings — published 2013
Into the Darkest Corner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 71,991 ratings — published 2007
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 877,271 ratings — published 2013
Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers, #4)
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avg rating 4.02 — 61,708 ratings — published 2006
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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avg rating 4.20 — 100,054 ratings — published 2006
It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2)
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avg rating 4.09 — 73,706 ratings — published 2005
The Shadow Cats (Fire and Thorns, #0.5)
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avg rating 3.76 — 3,993 ratings — published 2012
The Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns, #2)
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avg rating 4.17 — 48,184 ratings — published 2012
Little Lady, Big Apple (The Little Lady Agency, #2)
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avg rating 3.70 — 7,032 ratings — published 2006
Every Secret Thing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 11,703 ratings — published 2003
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 452,946 ratings — published 1986
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 680,083 ratings — published 2012
Wallbanger (Cocktail, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 212,069 ratings — published 2012
Devoured (Devoured, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 36,487 ratings — published 2012
The Vincent Boys (The Vincent Boys, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,213 ratings — published 2011
Thoughtless (Thoughtless, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 141,990 ratings — published 2010
Promise Not to Tell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 20,354 ratings — published 2007
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 183,301 ratings — published 2009
Winter's Tale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 29,555 ratings — published 1983
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,242,960 ratings — published 2011
Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
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avg rating 4.02 — 246,127 ratings — published 2012
“Oysters are the usual opening to a winter breakfast. Indeed, they are almost indispensable.”
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“Light filtered down through the water to the bed where the frilly pearl oysters lay fastened to the rub-bly bottom, a bottom strewn with shells of broken. opened oysters. This was the bed that had raised the
King of Spain to be a great power in Europe in past years, had helped to pay for his wars, and had deco-rated the churches for his soul's sake. The gray oysters with ruffles like skirts on the shells, the barnacle. crusted oysters with little bits of weed clinging to the skirts and small crabs climbing over them. An acci dent could happen to these oysters, a grain of sand could lie in the folds of muscle and irritate the flesh until in self-protection the flesh coated the grain with a layer of smooth cement. But once started, the flesh continued to coat the foreign body until it fell free in some tidal flurry or until the oyster was destroyed. For centuries men had dived down and torn the oys-ters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. Swarms of fish lived near the bed to live near the oysters thrown back by the searching men and to nibble at the shining inner shells. But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both.”
― The Pearl
King of Spain to be a great power in Europe in past years, had helped to pay for his wars, and had deco-rated the churches for his soul's sake. The gray oysters with ruffles like skirts on the shells, the barnacle. crusted oysters with little bits of weed clinging to the skirts and small crabs climbing over them. An acci dent could happen to these oysters, a grain of sand could lie in the folds of muscle and irritate the flesh until in self-protection the flesh coated the grain with a layer of smooth cement. But once started, the flesh continued to coat the foreign body until it fell free in some tidal flurry or until the oyster was destroyed. For centuries men had dived down and torn the oys-ters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. Swarms of fish lived near the bed to live near the oysters thrown back by the searching men and to nibble at the shining inner shells. But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both.”
― The Pearl
