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The Dead Come to Stay (Netherleigh Mystery, #2)

by Brandy Schillace (Goodreads Author)

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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

by Devoney Looser (Goodreads Author)

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“It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

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“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

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“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

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“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
― Ali Smith, How to be Both

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