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We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you becaus...more

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She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it.

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The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be...more

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She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squi

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She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble

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Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...