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Alda Balthrop-Lewis

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Alda Balthrop-Lewis is an Associate Professor at Florida State University, where she teaches ethics in the Religion Department.

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Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism

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The Correspondent

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The Perimenopause Survival Guide: Make Sense of Your Symptoms and Build Your Personalized Treatment Plan

by Heather Hirsch

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Frankenstein: Penguin Classics

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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