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Sarah’s Key by Tatiana deRosnay – excellent for fans of the Nightingale and book clubs
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Sarah’s Key by Tatiana deRosnay – excellent for fans of the Nightingale and book clubs

Fans of The Nightingale or poignant WW2 historical fiction will enjoy Sarah’s Key by Tatiana deRosnay. Sarah’s Key is an excellent book suggestion for book clubs or people tackling an Around the World Reading Challenge for a book set in France. Sarah’s Key Summary from Goodreads: “Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is…

The Great Gatsby Audiobook Review and 8 books to try if you like the great gatsby. #books #reading #greatgatsby #audiobook
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The Great Gatsby Audiobook Review + 8 Books to Read if You Like the Great Gatsby

Have you been wanting to read The Great Gatsby but just don’t have the time? Try the Great Gatsby audiobook with a celebrity narrator you’ll love!      I love reading challenges and pushing myself to read more. Reading brings me joy, teaches me how to  better my life and whisks me away on adventures…

Wicked by Gregory Maguire is a wonderfully creepy, magical and sometimes disturbing is perfect for your fall reading list. Maguire creates a "Wicked" Witch we can empathize with and relate to while providing commentary on the role religion, racial inequality and suppression play in fueling evil.
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Wicked by Gregory Maguire Book Review – is evil born or created?

Blurb: Wicked by Gregory Maguire is a wonderfully creepy, magical and sometimes disturbing book, perfect for your fall reading list. Maguire creates a “Wicked” Witch we can empathize with and relate to while providing commentary on the role religion, racial inequality and suppression play in fueling evil. An interesting look at whether evil is born…

J.K. Rowling's commencement address, Very Good Lives, makes a perfect graduation gift! J.K. Rowling's wise words on the importance of failure & imagination.
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Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling – a perfect graduation gift!

Synopsis from Goodreads: “In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K. Rowling’s words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound and provocative questions: How can we embrace failure? And how…

first darling of the morning
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The First Darling of the Morning by Thrity Umrigar Memoir Book Review

Synopsis from Goodreads: First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped…