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message 51: by Marilyn (new)

Marilyn "The smoke from ships and the exhalations of the river left a haze that blurred the world and made the big liner seem ever bigger, less the product of human endeavor than an escarpment rising from a plain."

"Dead Wake - The Last Crossing of the Lusitania"
- by best selling author ERIK LARSON


message 52: by Trish (new)

Trish | 10 comments "I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón


message 53: by Deniz (new)

Deniz | 1 comments "One summer night i fell asleep,hoping the world would be different when i woke."

Aristotle And Dante Discover the Secrets Of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

It's such a beautiful book, highly recommended by me :)


message 54: by Melinda (new)

Melinda Brasher | 31 comments The last thing a bride needs to fret over on her wedding day is whether the ceremony will take place.

A Sparrow in Terezin by Kristy Cambron


message 55: by Jenni (new)

Jenni Boynton (luvmy3monkeys) The cruise ship towered over the dock in San Pedro like an enormous white layer cake, or a floating apartment building.
Day Four (The Three #2) by Sarah Lotz Day Four.


message 56: by Debbie M (new)

Debbie M Ove is fifty-nine. A Man Called Ove


message 57: by Melinda (new)

Melinda Brasher | 31 comments When I was seven winters of age, my mother caught me in the hearth stacking red-hot coals with my bare hands.

Of Fire and Stars


message 58: by Kris (new)

Kris Williams | 17 comments I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.
The Kite Runner


message 59: by Debbie M (new)

Debbie M In my dream, the girl was drifting, far, far below the crashing waves and the cries of gulls in the cold, sunless depths of the North Sea. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware


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