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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

by Mary Pipher

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The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

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Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

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Introducing Game Theory: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides) by Ivan Pastine

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Game theory is a set of tools used to help analyze situations where an individual’s best course of action depends on what others do or are expected to do. Game theory allows us to understand how people act in situations where they are ...more

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The Great Indian Novel

by Shashi Tharoor

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“The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Autobiography of a Yogi

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

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