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    The Adventures of a Book’s Life
    The Adventures of a Book’s Life
    The Adventures of a Book’s Life
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    The Adventures of a Book’s Life

    By Mary E. Haynes

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    The Adventures of a Book’s Life, tells the story of how books can communicate, see, hear and feel. It starts out in a library and then is moved, with some assistance to a “ USED” book store. All the while, having adventures trying to find a “HOME!” It dislikes “Dog Earing,” and being placed by scary books and books that have chos and mayhem in them. It loves being read and having readers write in its’ margins. It has adventures and fun and meeting new books. And, hopefully find friends, along the way in it quest to find a home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 3, 2020
    ISBN9781532098383
    The Adventures of a Book’s Life
    Author

    Mary E. Haynes

    Who am I? I would like to introduce my self, I am a book and I talk to myself, I talk to myself a lot. It might be said that, that makes me crazy, but I’m not crazy. How do I know I’m not crazy? First of all, I make a lot of sense to myself and second no one has carried me off to the loony bin… yet. So, I’m not crazy.

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