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Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,470 ratings — published
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,278,494 ratings — published 2012
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,667,149 ratings — published 2020
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,573,071 ratings — published 2022
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,746,712 ratings — published 1988
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,099,549 ratings — published 2020
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,491,734 ratings — published 2017
The Wild Iris (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 16,596 ratings — published 1992
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 601,435 ratings — published 2023
Postcolonial Love Poem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 9,087 ratings — published 2020
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,224,468 ratings — published 2012
The Prophet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 338,706 ratings — published 1923
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,270,859 ratings — published 1997
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 251,251 ratings — published 2019
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 834,185 ratings — published 2003
Instructions for Traveling West: Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 4,397 ratings — published
Dearly (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 17,130 ratings — published 2020
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 39,415 ratings — published 2022
Anxious People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 879,590 ratings — published 2019
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 200,163 ratings — published 2012
Life on Mars: Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 10,941 ratings — published 2011
Poems & Prayers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 11,945 ratings — published
Bright Dead Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 15,631 ratings — published 2015
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 140,606 ratings — published 2020
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 51,749 ratings — published 1273
A Thousand Mornings: Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 33,638 ratings — published 2012
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 119,422 ratings — published 1855
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 34,436 ratings — published 2017
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,854,063 ratings — published 2021
The Reading List (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 141,809 ratings — published 2021
Humankind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,424 ratings — published 2020
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 376,813 ratings — published 2014
The Comfort Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 77,449 ratings — published 2021
The Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 3,094,544 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 566,524 ratings — published 2008
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 371,278 ratings — published 2013
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 357,037 ratings — published 2022
The Authenticity Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 111,238 ratings — published 2020
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,279,573 ratings — published 2019
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 607,773 ratings — published 2013
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 705,803 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 936,151 ratings — published 1946
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 305,771 ratings — published 2013
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 830,510 ratings — published 2008
The Carrying (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,265 ratings — published 2018
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 207,511 ratings — published 2021
The Story of Arthur Truluv (Mason, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 57,267 ratings — published 2017
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
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avg rating 3.81 — 279,668 ratings — published 1998
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,154,257 ratings — published 1908
The Happiness Project (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 183,721 ratings — published 2009
“Today is the day you choose to find joy, fulfillment and the path that will make your heart sing. It's your choice, never lose sight of that.”
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“When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )”
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