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Best Reads for Distraction in Lockdown
Best books about anything but Coronavirus to help distract you from the news!
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The Pendulum has Swung too far
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast
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4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
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TWAS The Year 2020
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Tegenvoeters, een reis door Australië
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
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Anno 2020
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James Morcan (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 200,
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White Boy in Watts
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Writers Revenge: Four Authors and the Publisher from Hell
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2.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,137,689 ratings
score: 198,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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The Girl from Jakarta
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Hester Keegan (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym)
3.89 avg rating — 617,078 ratings
score: 194,
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The Price of Salt
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Claire Morgan (Pseudonym)
4.02 avg rating — 81,973 ratings
score: 194,
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Passing Clouds
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 29,633 ratings
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The Music and the Wood (Passing Clouds #2)
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Gunfight at the Old Leake Canal
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G.B. Hope (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 190,
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Nina is Not OK
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4.25 avg rating — 3,522 ratings
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The Light Between Oceans
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M.L. Stedman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 475,112 ratings
score: 189,
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 175,859 ratings
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Eastendbutchers Short Story Collection: Tales With Meat On The Bone
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
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4.25 avg rating — 182,202 ratings
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 140,535 ratings
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The Seat of the Soul
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4.03 avg rating — 47,926 ratings
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Coronavirus Humor: Hilarious Jokes and Memes about Coronavirus, Quarantine, Social Distancing, and Homeschooling to Brighten Your Quarantine!
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Campervan Kama Sutra - Outback Australia, with a camper trailer, three kids and a dog*
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John Perrier (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 134 ratings
score: 98,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,351,173 ratings
score: 98,
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The Woman on the Bus
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3.62 avg rating — 366 ratings
score: 97,
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De wetten
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3.59 avg rating — 5,715 ratings
score: 97,
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Coronado: Stories
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 4,203 ratings
score: 97,
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The Time Shifters Chronicles volume 1: Episodes One through Five of the Chronicles of the Harekaiian
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Gods Geuzen
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4.11 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,977,798 ratings
score: 96,
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Anxiety
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4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Time Shifters Chronicles volume 2
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Transit
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3.16 avg rating — 508 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,084,484 ratings
score: 95,
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Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
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4.01 avg rating — 3,473 ratings
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
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4.35 avg rating — 1,489,839 ratings
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The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 289,074 ratings
score: 94,
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Good Dogs Don't Make it to the South Pole
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3.48 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
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Jonathan Auxier (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 12,720 ratings
score: 94,
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 273,923 ratings
score: 94,
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 200,841 ratings
score: 94,
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The Secret History
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4.16 avg rating — 970,280 ratings
score: 93,
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,923,886 ratings
score: 93,
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The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
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Dan Buettner (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 13,375 ratings
score: 93,
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The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 224,181 ratings
score: 93,
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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Penguin Little Black Classics, #42)
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4.07 avg rating — 10,494 ratings
score: 93,
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The Road
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score: 93,
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The Hands That Held Me: One Survivor's True Story - Abuse, Child Trafficking, Addiction, and Overdose
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Lisa Jo Symonds (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 93,
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest : A Play in Two Acts
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4.31 avg rating — 14,072 ratings
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 189,323 ratings
score: 92,
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Factotum
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3.92 avg rating — 74,842 ratings
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Bound by Fate and Blood (Arsinoëphorus Alliance, Book 1)
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Jenna O'Malley (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 92,
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Homeboy
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4.17 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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4.12 avg rating — 297,639 ratings
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 191,504 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 265,993 ratings
score: 91,
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Mudflap: The Gloves Come Off (Mudflap #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A Single Thread
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 32,718 ratings
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The COPD Solution: A Proven 10-Week Program for Living and Breathing Better with Chronic Lung Disease
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4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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Mudflap
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4.39 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Emma
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 798,251 ratings
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Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 56,953 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 54,867 ratings
score: 87,
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Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
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3.80 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Girl in White Gloves
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Kerri Maher (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 2,874 ratings
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My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
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4.19 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Bound by Oath and Heart: Arsinoëphorus Alliance (Book 2)
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Jenna O'Malley (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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In the Woods
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 432,473 ratings
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
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4.09 avg rating — 43,545 ratings
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 161,367 ratings
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Delia Owens (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 3,519,480 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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The Guest List
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Lucy Foley (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,234,694 ratings
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Long Range (Joe Pickett, #20)
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4.41 avg rating — 24,324 ratings
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The Governess (Royal Outsiders, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,669 ratings
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Secret Rage
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 4,835 ratings
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Before the Crown
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The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 925,486 ratings
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The Traitor
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4.09 avg rating — 2,316 ratings
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Other People's Houses
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Lara The Runaway Cat: One Cat’s Journey to Discover Home Is Where the Heart Is
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The Duchess (Royal Outsiders, #2)
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