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Melissa’s favorite books

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She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

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A Place for Us

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by Fatima Farheen Mirza (Goodreads Author)

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