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Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund The Color of Water by James McBride The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Night by Elie Wiesel Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer
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The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
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“Done is better than perfect.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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