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Escape from Lucien (Amulet, #6)

by Kazu Kibuishi (Goodreads Author)

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Waverider (Amulet #9)

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Ice Wolves (Elementals, #1)

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“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― St. Augustine

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“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.”
― Harold Clarke Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare

tags: storytelling-story-tales

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