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The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora

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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

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The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up―and Then Pushes Them Down

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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

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