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My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell Bone Black by bell hooks Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver Persuasion by Jane Austen Stardust by Neil Gaiman Emma by Jane Austen
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Art, Children's, Classics, Cookbooks, Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, and Young-adult


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