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on May 19, 2020

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Depression Era inspired Chocolate Cake

recipe by Melissa Clark

Birds by the Shore (first published as Notes from the Shore)

by Jennifer Ackerman

Girl Waits With Gun (Book One in Constance Kopp series)

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