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Florida

by Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author)

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Bite by Bite: American History through Feasts, Foods, and Side Dishes

by Marc Aronson (Goodreads Author)

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Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift

by Kristie Frederick Daugherty

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“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn’t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library’s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light…”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

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“We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

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“If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so
grouchy in the morning.”
― Joanne Fluke, Strawberry Shortcake Murder

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“Excelsior!”
― Stan Lee

tags: comics, inspirational, marvel, marvel-comics, stan-lee

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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel

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