55 books
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Listopia > Ryan's votes on the list University Summer Reading Books (100 Books)
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The Glass Castle
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"Appalachian State University 2008, Ball State University 2011, Bowling Green State University 2007, California State University Northridge 2011, University of Tennessee Knoxville 2009, Michigan Tech 2011"
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rated it 5 stars
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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"ASU 2011"
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Mudbound
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"ASU 2010"
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rated it 4 stars
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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"ASU 2009, California State University Chico 2008, University at Buffalo Suny 2010, Arcadia University 2009"
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
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"ASU 2012"
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A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America
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"ASU 2007, UNC 2009"
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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"ASU 2006, Virginia Commonweath University 2006"
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Iron & Silk
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"ASU 2005"
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A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
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"ASU 2004, Bowling Green State University 2002, Eastern Illinois University 2007"
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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"ASU 2003, UNC 2003, Virginia Commonweath University 2006, San Jose State University 2005"
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The Things They Carried
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"ASU 2002, Bowling Green State University 2004"
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rated it 4 stars
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Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President
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"UNCW 2012"
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Zeitoun
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"UNCW 2011, California State University Chico 2011, Kansas State 2011, Parkland College 2011, Spokane Falls Community College 2010, Tufts University 2011, University of Kentucky 2011, Utah State University 2011"
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No Impact Man
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"UNCW 2010, Bowling Green State University 2011, Illinois Wesleyan University 2010, University of Arkansas 2011, University of Kentucky 2011"
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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"UNCW 2009, Ramapo College of New Jersey 2007, Rhode Island College 2008"
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Never Let Me Go
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"UNCW 2008, California State University Chico 2006"
Ryan
rated it 2 stars
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The Kite Runner
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"UNCW 2007, Bowling Green State University 2005, San Jose State University 2006"
Ryan
rated it 4 stars
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
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"UNCC 2011"
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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"UNCC 2010"
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
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"UNCC 2009"
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Enrique's Journey
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"UNCC 2008, University of Wisconsin Madison 2011"
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The Color of Water
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"UNCC 2007, University of Kentucky 2009, University of Tennessee Knoxville 2003"
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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"UNC 2012"
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Eating Animals
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"UNC 2011, St. Michael's College 2011"
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
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"UNC 2010, ECU 2011"
Ryan
rated it 5 stars
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
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"UNC 2008, Virginia Commonweath University 2008"
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
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"UNC 2007"
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The Namesake
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"UNC 2006"
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Blood Done Signed My Name
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"UNC 2005"
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Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
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"UNC 2004"
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Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations
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"UNC 2002"
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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"UNC 2001, California State University Chico 2001, Whitman College 2011, University of Alabama Birmingham 2005"
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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"Agnes Scott College 2012, Armstrong Atlantic State University 2011, Coastal Carolina University 2011, Philadelphia University 2011, San Jose State University 2011, Smith College 2011, University of Maryland 2011, University of Tennessee Knoxville 2011, Virginia Commonweath University 2010, Eastern Illinois University 2012, ECU 2012, University of Alabama Birmingham 2012"
Ryan
rated it 4 stars
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How to Breathe Underwater
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"Agnes Scott College 2011"
Ryan
rated it 2 stars
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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
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"Agnes Scott College 2010, University of Wisconsin Parkside 2012, Okahoma City University 2011"
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Einstein’s Dreams
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"Agnes Scott College 2009"
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The Complete Persepolis
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"Agnes Scott College 2008, University of Maine 2010, Oklahoma City University 2011, Philadelphia University 2010"
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American Woman
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"Agnes Scott College 2007"
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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"Agnes Scott College 2006"
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Bee Season
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"Agnes Scott College 2005"
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Three Junes
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"Agnes Scott College 2004"
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Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)
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"Agnes Scott College 2003"
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
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"Agnes Scott College 2002"
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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"Agnes Scott College 2001"
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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"Agnes Scott College 2000"
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The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
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"American University 2010"
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My Name Is Asher Lev
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"Belmont University 2010"
Ryan
rated it 4 stars
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The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else
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"Baylor University 2011"
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The Last Lecture
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"Bently University 2011, Northern Illinois University 2010, Thomas College 2009, Triton College 2011, Ramapo College of New Jersey 2009"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
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"Berry College 2011"
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
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"Bowling Green State University 2009, Shepherd University 2011, Eastern Illinois University 2009"
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rated it 3 stars
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This I Believe 2
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"Bowling Green State University 2010, Eastern Illinois University 2010, University of Wisconsin Parkside 2010"
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The Last Town on Earth
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"Bowling Green State University 2008, University of Arizona 2011, University of South Carolina Aiken 2011"
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Into the Forest
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"Bowling Green State University 2006"
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The Laramie Project
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"Bowling Green State University 2003"
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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"California State University Chico 2010, Miami University 2011"
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The Soloist
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"California State University Chico 2009, University of Akron 2010"
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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"California State University Chico 2007, Eastern Illinois University 2008, University of Tennessee Knoxville 2010"
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
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"California State University Chico 2005"
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The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales
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"California State University Chico 2000"
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The Grace of Silence: A Memoir
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"California State University Sacramento 2011"
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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
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"Methodist University 2011"
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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"Ramapo College of New Jersey 2011"
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rated it 4 stars
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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"Michigan State University 2011, Rhode Island College 2009"
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rated it 3 stars
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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"Michigan State University 2012"
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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"Berry College 2011, Goucher College 2011, Virginia Commonweath University 2011"
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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
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"Virginia Commonweath University 2012"
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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"Xavier University of Louisiana 2011, Rhode Island College 2010"
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
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"Washington University 2011"
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A Journal for Jordan
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"University of Texas at Arlington 2010"
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Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
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"University of Alabama Birmingham 2011"
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When the Emperor Was Divine
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"Rhode Island College 2011"
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The Monsters of Templeton
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"Rutgers University 2011"
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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"Eastern Illinois University 2011"
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Everything Matters!
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"Duke University 2010"
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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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"Montana State University 2011"
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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"University of Maine 2011"
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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"University of Maine 2009"
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
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"University of Maine 2008"
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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"University of Wisconsin Parkside 2011, Michigan Tech 2010, San Jose State University 2010"
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rated it 4 stars
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The House on Mango Street
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"University of Wisconsin Parkside 2006"
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rated it 3 stars
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The Good Times are Killing Me
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"Rhode Island College 2006"
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Look Me in the Eye
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"Montcalm Community College 2011"
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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"Philadelphia University 2009"
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Wading Home
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"Clemson University 2012"
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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"Kansas State University 2010"
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rated it 5 stars
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Shade It Black: Death and After in Iraq
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"Miami University 2012"
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Water for Elephants
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"San Jose State University 2008"
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rated it 4 stars
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Color of the Sea
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"San Jose State University 2009"
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
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"San Jose State University 2007"
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Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
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"UNCG 2012"
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Into the Wild
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"UNCG 2011"
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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"UNCG 2010"
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My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
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"UNCG 2009"
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Year of Wonders
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"UNCG 2008"
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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"UNCG 2007"
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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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"UNCG 2005"
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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"University of Florida 2009"
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
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"University of Florida 2008"
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The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
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"University of Maryland 2007"
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