Sahara

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A wet sandy beach

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Darkness Falls by Jessica Sorensen

When the disease spread through the world, people had no choice but to go into hiding. The Colony is hidden deep underground, far away from the vampires—humans that were transformed by the disease. The vampires are hideous, starving, and they will kill any human they come across. Seventeen-y...

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The Summer I turned pretty by Jenny Han

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They ...

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Poker Face by Kate Lederer

"The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other."George Plimpton, author ofTruman Capote Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where her father taught English, ...

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The Swan

What is beautiful, natural and symmetrical? - A swan!

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Just me

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Sun Rise

This is a sun rise on the baltic sea. I LOVE sailing and this is from our two week trip. This photograph reminds me of this sunrise. It was very cold but the light was gorgeous. There was no land in sight and just the noise of the wind made the whole moment so serene. Each time I look at the phot...

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Post-its

These are beautiful because my girlfriend made them for me. They are post-it notes on my shelf. I look at them every morning and remember her and make me think of her beautiful and kind face :) These are definitely beautiful in their own way.

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Her and the donkey

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Birdy

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Addiction

It's a picture I took with the idea of depicting an addiction to Facebook. It is not edited - it's a reflection off my computer screen. UPDATE 1: Slightly brighter, as suggested.

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Bird in the summer

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Sunset love

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Wooden emotions

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Playin in the sun

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Student

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Lonely

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Ghost of Christmas Past

He wakes moments before the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past, a strange childlike phantom with a brightly glowing head. The spirit escorts Scrooge on a journey into the past to previous Christmases from the curmudgeon's earlier years. Invisible to those he watches, Scrooge revisits his childho...

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Single

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The Orchid

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Kitty

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HER

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That close

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