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Christine Falls (Quirke, #1)

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The Immoral Majority: Why Good Christians Pick Bad Leaders

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Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

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The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America

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“We’re not here to be fair. We’re here to give red meat to our viewers.”
― Joe Muto, An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media

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“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places like Nantucket, where children grew up feeling entitled to private beaches and loud pants.”
― Emma Straub, The Vacationers

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“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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“Might as well wear loafers without socks. Or take out a membership at the Reading Room on the path above the beach—the Reading Room, where the joke was that there wasn’t a book in the entire place.”
― Ann Beattie, The State We're In: Maine Stories

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