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Alexander’s favorite books

Japan at War by Haruko Taya Cook

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

A Woman Soldier's Own Story by Xie Bingying

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Night by Elie Wiesel

Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

The Book of Kimono by Norio Yamanaka

True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

In Little Need of Divine Intervention by Thomas D. Conlan

Samurai by Saburō Sakai

With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge

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The Sorrow of War

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The Sorrow of War

by Bảo Ninh

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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan

by Akiko Takenaka

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