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"Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."

—Alan Stewart Paton (1903-88) South African writer, noted for novels Cry, the Beloved Country

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Children's Books Best Sellers (Book Sense): The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1); The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2); The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3); [see more]