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Sam Bruskin

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The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

by Oksana Zabuzhko

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The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century – A Gripping Revelatory History of the Modern CIA Based on Unprecedented Access to Six Former Directors

by Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author)

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Oxford Arabic to English dictionary (Arabic Edition)

by Oxford University Press

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Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World by Christopher Steiner

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“Wel you know 1ce the kids start singing at you thats a cern kynd of track youre on nor there aint too much you can do about it. Making the kids stop singing wont help its too late by then youve jus got to clinch your teef and get on with it.”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

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“His Mysterium Cosmographicum is an attempt, really, to reconcile the ancient Platonic dream of the harmony of the spheres with the sixteenth century’s insight that the planets move around the sun.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

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“I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER

The ruins of Canterbury Castle

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― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

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“Mark you that and noat you wel.”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

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“Every body knows Aunty. Stoan boans and iron tits and teef be twean her legs plus she has a iron willy for the ladys it gets red hot. When your time comes you have to do the juicy with her like it or not. She rides a girt big rat with red eyes it can see in the dark and it can smel whos ready for Aunty. Even if they dont know it ther selfs the rat can smel if theyre ready.”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

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