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The ten thousand things by maria dermout, paperback. My name is caden armstrong, i am eighteen and a senior in high school. Among the ten thousand things archives a life in books. But it is also a novel of fated meetings, grand battles, and riveting drama, and in its seamless fusion of the epic and the intimate, it. It is the story of felicia, who returns with her baby son from holland to the spice islands.
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