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Amy’s favorite books

The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro

I and Thou by Martin Buber

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The Infinite Light by Aryeh Kaplan

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The Way of Zen

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by Alan W. Watts

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