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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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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Still, there were other things we saw from the window – other kinds of emotions I didn’t at first understand – of which I did eventually find some versions in myself, even if they were perhaps like the shadows made across the floor by the ...more

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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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“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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“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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“Kill a Mockingbird (1962), a classic portrait of the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in the South.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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“They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm ones, that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn’t choose it. And if her platter had been full with the goodness of Henry and she had found it burdensome, had flicked it off crumbs at a time, it was because she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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