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The Secret Life of Sunflowers

by Marta Molnar (Goodreads Author)

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Every Note Played

by Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)

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52 Diverse Titles Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Journal and Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association

by American Library Association

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Book cover for Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein by Jonathan Cott

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“Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace”—echoing the cry in Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” Seid umschlugen, Millionen! (“You millions, I embrace you!”).

Noel’s Quotes

“I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

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“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda

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“That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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“When a man is certain that he knows God’s will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.”
― Ken Follett, A Column of Fire

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