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With the goal of promoting literacy (and with proceeds going to the Read to Grow Foundation), here are 65 spirited testaments to the transformative power of reading from 65 distinguished contributors, as compiled by bookseller Roxanne Coady and editor Joy Johannessen. Books change lives,... read more
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I remember first the power of the language: "Here is the house. . . . Dick and Jane . . . the fall of 1941 . . . Nuns go by as quiet as lust. . . . Love, thick and dark as Alaga syrup," and yes, that child left "among the garbage and the sunflowers."
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