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Bad Boy: A Graphic Memoir

by Walter Dean Myers

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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Global Issues in Education: Pedagogy, Policy, Practice, and the Minority Experience: Pedagogy, Policy, Practice and the Minority Experience

by Greg Wiggan

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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