A Mathematician's Lament by Paul  Lockhart
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Tesla by Margaret Cheney
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Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
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I'm Better Than You
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor RooseveltObsessive Genius by Barbara GoldsmithSusan B. Anthony by Helen Albee MonsellHarriet Tubman by Ann Petry
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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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