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John of John
By Douglas Stuart ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "”His father put all his faith in the Presbyterian penicillin. For whatever ailed you there was only one cure: work and prayer.”..."
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Sorrow and Bliss
By Meg Mason ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "“It had been nearly a month, hours and hours of every day, and as though it was now her turn, my mother said, ‘Martha, no marriage makes sense. Especially not to the outside world. A marriage is..."
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Forgotten on Sunday
By Valerie Perrin ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""I jot down what Monsieur Geant tells me in my new notebook. Sometimes, I read it back to him. It makes him laugh. He tells me that it's as if he is listening to someone else's story, that my..."
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Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do? Still indomitable was the reply: I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, th..."
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The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""I was an odd bird, I knew that. People had told me that most of my life. But I'd learned to live with loneliness in a way my sister never would. She'd never had to. I'd be afraid for her if she eve..."
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Angel Down
By Daniel Kraus ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""...for if you were to forge new kinds of weapons, and those weapons flew farther and sailed higher than anything before them, it stood to reason that the payloads might strike beings hovering at alti..."
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Vigil
By George Saunders ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""I scanned for doubts regarding things he had done ir keft undone; things he might have said but had not; mistakes to which he had not yet fully admitted, any of which might keep him from attaining th..."
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The Elements
By John Boyne ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""Around us, gurneys pass by while outside, in the waiting room, people sit with broken arms, sprained ankles, knife wounds, all the injuries that human beings suffer on a daily basis, because our skin..."
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Flashlight
By Susan Choi ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""My God, she remembers this, too: his utter faith in her. No one, least of all her, ever held such faith in her again."..."
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Life, & Death, & Giants
By Ron Rindo ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""I cannot make sense of my own confusion. I'd heard thousands of people cheering for my beloved grandson, saw them on their feet, as if in worship, singing his name. I swell with pride, of course. Who..."
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This Is Where The Serpent Lies
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