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Karl’s favorite books

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace World War Z by Max Brooks The Children of Men by P.D. James Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories by John Steinbeck
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The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves by Curt Thompson
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Healing shame requires our being vulnerable with other people in embodied actions. There is no other way, but shame will, as we will see, attempt to convince us otherwise.
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Children's, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Music, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and apocalyptic


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