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Peter Berghoef

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The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)

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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg

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“[Question: What elements in the lives of these two were symbolically suggested by their meeting again and their conversation?]”
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