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Average rating: 4.44 · 174 ratings · 76 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Dragons of a Different Tail: 17 Unusual Dragon Tales by Marx Pyle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Victoria L. Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anne C. Lynch (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dying of the Golden Day (The Heartfriends, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stroke of Thirteen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gunsmoke & Dragonfire: A Fantasy Western Anthology by Diane Morrison (Editor/Author), Sable Aradia (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Author), Liam Hogan 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Lies, Painful Truths by Karen T. Newman (Editor), Shaun Avery (Contributor), S.R. Betler (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where You Can See the Stars 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow of the Endless Night (The Heartfriends, #2) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secrets of Harrowgate Valley by Carrie Gessner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Traci Douglass (Goodreads Author), S.R. Brown (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empyrea and Other Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Arms of the Restless Sea: A Heartfriends Novella 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)

by Robert Jordan

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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets

by Rachel Feder

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The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times (The Shortest History Series)

by Ross King

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“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
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“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
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“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
― Edith Wharton

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