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Beautiful Exiles

by Meg Waite Clayton (Goodreads Author)

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Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia

by Marc Favreau

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Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series Book 1)

by Doris Lessing

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She discovers that it is possible to cry all day and all night. That there are many different ways to cry: the sudden outpouring of tears, the deep, racking sobs, the soundless and endless leaking of water from the eyes. That sore skin ...more

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“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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