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Reporter/Editor. Ex @reuters correspondent. Words in @nytimes @guardian @WashingtonPost @BBC etc. Alum @UWMadison @LifeAtLums. Almost PhD. Former blue check

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Book Cover for: Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club: A Novel, Celeste Ng

Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club: A Novel

Celeste Ng
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“It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.” ― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

Paperback, 2019

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Captain's Verses: Love Poems, Pablo Neruda

The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

Pablo Neruda
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. -The Captain's Verses, Pablo Neruda 1952

Paperback, 2009

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
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“and now again some chime (it might be a motor horn) tinkling divinely on the grass stalks—all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway 3/3

Paperback, 1990

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death, Tallu Schuyler Quinn

What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death

Tallu Schuyler Quinn
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“No part of an embodied life is guaranteed except death,” Tallu Schuyler Quinn in essay collection, “What We Wish Were True.” To face it — however haltingly or furiously or tearfully, or on a carousel of all those swirling feelings — is to be fully alive. https://t.co/tihAXQ2mkq

Hardcover, 2022

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
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“and now again some chime (it might be a motor horn) tinkling divinely on the grass stalks—all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway 3/3

Paperback, 2017

$8.79$4.39 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Razorblade Tears, S. a. Cosby

Razorblade Tears

S. a. Cosby
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“Ike tried to remember a time when men with badges coming to his door early in the morning brought anything other than heartache and misery, but try as he might nothing came to mind.” -Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby, with some of the top first lines in fiction.

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Two Hundred Years Ago: an account of the ejection of the Puritans from the Church of England, and the efforts made to restore them, with a sk, David Mountfield

Two Hundred Years Ago: an account of the ejection of the Puritans from the Church of England, and the efforts made to restore them, with a sk

David Mountfield
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WHAT ISSA HEARD by David Budbill Two hundred years ago Issa heard the morning birds singing sutras to this suffering world. I heard them too, this morning, which must mean, since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.

Paperback, 2019

$22.90$11.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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