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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Illustrated): The 1884 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations

by Mark Twain

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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

by Lydia Reeder (Goodreads Author)

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When the Tides Held the Moon

by Venessa Vida Kelley (Goodreads Author)

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Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

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I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would ...more

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“The popularity among professional ball players was so great that Hot Springs eventually became the official spring training location for a number of major- and minor-league teams, including the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Boston Red Sox, and the Pittsburgh Pirates.”
― David Hill, The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice

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“Throughout its history, the United States has always had a class system. It is not only directed by the top 1 percent and supported by a contented middle class. We can no longer ignore the stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society in explaining the national identity.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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“No, they would never get over that night because they had said things that altered how they saw each other.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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“North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting. We have to begin, then, with the first refusal to face reality: most colonizing schemes that took root in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America were built on privilege and subordination, not any kind of proto-democracy”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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