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Waiting for White Horses

Winner of a 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award. Happiness always seems to elude Grant Thorson. Witness his joys and sorrows as he learns to embrace the sometimes bitter struggle that is life.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 492 pages

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