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How Sweet the Sound: The Power and Promise of 30 Beloved Hymns

by Laura L. Smith (Goodreads Author)

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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)

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Dayla said: " I started the book, "The Codebreakers" and thought (mistakenly) that it was this book.

Enjoying the female camaraderie in this book. ...more "

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Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)

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“Bookstores also stimulate our senses. Being surrounded by books matters. Sociologists have found that just growing up in a home full of books—mere proximity—confers a lifetime of intellectual benefits.”
― Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

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“Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“Winners are the favourites of heaven.”
― Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

tags: history

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“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often overlooked in criminal justice scholarship: class divisions within the black community.21 Although mass incarceration harms black America as a whole, its most direct victims are the poorest, least educated blacks. While”
― James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

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