The Perks of Being a Wallflower Straus and Giroux Bentley Carmone’s twelfth birthday party

Bentley Carmone’s twelfth birthday party has been—without question—his worst

stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks

“East meets West in World War I France

a cure is not where the work of healing ends

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