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Melissa’s favorite books

World War Z by Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 1491 by Charles C. Mann Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka 1984 by George Orwell On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
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The Book of Negroes
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Zora Neale Hurston
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
tags: discrimination, humor, self-assurance, self-worth
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Politics, Science fiction, Young-adult, and War


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