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Water Under Bridges (Pink Bean #5)
Water Under Bridges (Pink Bean #5)
Harper Bliss | 2017 | LGBTQ+, Romance
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9.0 (1 Ratings)
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Harper Bliss touches on another sensitive subject in this book. It begs to question if bullies can change and can we forgive. I really like how Bliss approaches this because often kids bully because they are trying to protect themselves and can chage once away from the negative influence. It took alot of courage for the characters to do what they do in this book. I will be recommending this book.
  
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Andrew Solomon recommended Middlemarch in Books (curated)

 
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry
6.3 (4 Ratings)
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"This book has the virtue of being the most perfect novel ever written. It manages to blend the miniature world of an uninteresting town with a profound reckoning with the human heart in all its vagaries. Here we find courage, pettiness, self-deception, love, profundity, triviality, sadness, joy, munificence, greed, theatricality, restraint, wit, pomposity, despair, hope. It’s seductively readable, free of pretension, and written with a rare clear-eyed kindness."

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Tilda Swinton recommended Gavin Maxwell: A Life in Books (curated)

 
Gavin Maxwell: A Life
Gavin Maxwell: A Life
Douglas Botting | 2017 | Natural World, Travel
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"For good measure, and because of its brilliance, I include Douglas Botting’s biography of Maxwell, as the Germans say, “in partnerlook.” An immersive portrait of a fascinating and haunting man, traveler, naturalist, shark fisherman, art historian, bon viveur, classical romantic adventurer and tragic hero of his own high drama. A great life story, written by a friend, of a life lived with legendary vigor, idealistic courage and a heartbreaking undertow."

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The Color Purple
The Color Purple
Alice Walker | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.5 (24 Ratings)
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A story of hope against all odds. The main character, Celia is a poor black woman living a life of domination by her father, and then her husband, it’s only when she meets her husbands lover, that she finds out about life, and how to find her strength and courage. This book should be on your to read list, not just for black history month, but for anytime.