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Melissa’s favorite books

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery The River of Doubt by Candice Millard The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Persuasion by Jane Austen The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
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The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
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He had no skills or smarts or education to distinguish him, which made him just the sort to be taken with the notion that he belonged to a master race.
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