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Currently Reading:
World War Z by Max Brooks
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I am Enough" by Brene Brown

Something Red by Douglas Nicholas 
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom


Most Recently Read:
the Watersong Novels by Amanda Hocking
Healing the Shame the Binds You by John Bradshaw
The Shadow Cats by Rae Carson
Books to Read:
Parenting the Ephraim's Child: Characteristics, Capabilities, and Challenges of Children Who Are 
       Intensely More by Deborah Talmadge and Jaime Theler
Righteous Influence: What Every Leader Should Know about Drawing on the Powers of Heaven
       by Lee Tom Perry
Broken Things to Mend by Jeffery R. Holland
Bonds that Make Us Free by C Terry Warner
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
Emotional Healing Through Essential Oils by Daniel Macdonald
Finding Peace, Joy and Happiness by Richard G Scott
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Increase in Learning by David A Bednar
Three Degrees of Glory by Melvin J Ballard
Green Rider by Kristen Britain
The Life of Nephi by George Q. Cannon
Young Robin Hood by George Manville Fenn
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Beautiful Chaos by Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia
Laddie, a True Blue Story by Gene Stratton Porter
Running Barefoot by Amy Harmon
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks
The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World 
         Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at the Time by Stephen R. Covey
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater


Books Read in 2012:
Crown of Embers by Rae Carson
Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
Be Still My Soul by Joanne Bischof
Keeping Keller by Tracy Winegar
Life Without Limits by Nick Vujicic
Golden by Monika Pardon
The Binding by L.Filloon
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Hunger Games (again) by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire (again) by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay (again) by Suzanne Collins
Lone Wolf by Jodi Piccoult
Wondrous Strange (again) by Leslie Livingston
Darklight (again) by Leslie Livingston
Tempestuous (again) by Leslie Livingston
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Imagine: How Creativity Works by 
Destined by April Lynn Pike
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
Princess Ben (again) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin
A Bite's Tale: A Furry Fable by Veronica Blade
Bridger by Megan Curd
Traitor by Megan Curd
How to Talk to Your Child About Sex by Linda Eyre
Under Her Skin by Jeaniene Frost
Hollowmen by Amanda Hocking
The Book of Deacon by Joseph Lallo
The Great Convergence by Joseph Lallo
The Battle of Verril by Joseph Lallo
Prince of Wolves by Quinn Loftis
Blood Rites by Quinn Loftis
Just One Drop by Quinn Loftis
Out of the Dark by Quinn Loftis
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
Forest Born by Shannon Hale
Jane Eyre (again) by Charlotte Bronte
Austenland (again) by Shannon Hale
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Host (again) by Stephenie Meyer
The Way I See It: a Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's by Temple Grandin
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Raven Boys by Maggie Stievfater

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