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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1984 by George Orwell A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Essential Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis Phantastes by George MacDonald A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection by Lemony Snicket East of Eden by John Steinbeck Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
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The scramble for cobalt is reminiscent of King Leopold II’s infamous plunder of the Congo’s ivory and rubber during his brutal reign as king sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
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