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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)

by Gregory Maguire

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Sky Full of Elephants

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Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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The land company—that’s the bank when it has land—wants tractors, not families on the land. Is a tractor bad? Is the power that turns the long furrows wrong? If this tractor were ours it would be good—not mine, but ours. If our tractor ...more

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“The arbitrary nature of grown people’s wrath gave colored children practice for life in the caste system, which is why parents, forced to train their children in the ways of subservience, treated their children as the white people running things treated them. It was preparation for the lower-caste role children were expected to have mastered by puberty.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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