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Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
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Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein
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Building a Life Out of Words by Shawn Smucker
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Part of the problem with "Building a Life Out of Words" was that I thought it was a memoir and it actually came off more as a self-help story. It was either self-help or a large dose of the author trying to justify irresponsible (IMHO) decisions. I c...more
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
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I don't think I can add anything new to what has already been said. Fantastic book about an amazing life.
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Tuning the Rig by Harvey Oxenhorn
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Quite an satisfying journey Harvey Oxenhorn took us on.
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
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Time of Women, The by Elena Chizhova
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Midnight in Peking by Paul French
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Uncle Terrible by Nancy Willard
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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Long ago I learned that when Death tells a story it’s not going to have a happy ending. But, what a beautiful story Death can weave! The Book Thief is one of those books. Even though the ending is sad (this is not a spoiler since Death lays that out...more
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G.K. Chesterton
“Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”
G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton
“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
G.K. Chesterton

C.S. Lewis
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory

“The Holy Scriptures were not given
to us that we should enclose
them in books, but that we should
engrave them upon our hearts.”
― St. John Chrysostom

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