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It’s the Top 10 Most-Read Books worldwide folks, and it’s the Bible in the lead by two furlongs. Harry Potter is in third by a body length, but what’s this?! It’s Twilight on the backstretch, and it’s gaining fast.

Rollie Williams

May 11, 2012

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