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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White

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But much of the company Mrs. Stanford kept was otherworldly. She told a San Francisco Examiner reporter that “I am never alone. Either my husband or son are with me all the time. They never come together, but in turns. Their stay is limited ...more

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 1: From Savoy Stompers to Clock Rockers

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“The word octopus is derived from Greek and not Latin, so the correct plural is not octopi. Technically, the formal plural would be octopodes (pronounced ock-toe-poe-dees) but octopuses will do.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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“In the early years of the war, I fell in love, I learned to ride a bike, and I discovered firsthand just how much blood could fit on the inside of a grown man. The world kept turning, and people kept dying, and for the next few years I sat under the leafy green and wrote about the dead.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

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“Through RNA editing—swapping out one RNA base for another. They can produce molecular diversity quickly, particularly in their nervous systems. It’s an alternative engine for evolution,”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

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“Hadn’t Gandhi-ji said, An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

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“An accident I could live with. All that time I was waiting, knowing that somebody had to die for me to live, I was getting myself ready to accept it as an accident. With an accident it’s like it was fated or something. But a murder… that comes with evil intent attached. It’s not happenstance. It means that I’m the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that’s why it’s different now.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

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