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Melissa’s favorite books

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez Mixed Blessings by Barbara Brown Taylor Take This Bread by Sara Miles The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
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Racism is so deeply woven into the fabric of our society that I do not see myself escaping from that continuum in my lifetime. But I can continually seek to move further along it. I am not in a fixed position on the continuum; my position ...more
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