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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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Other Minds

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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but she was also someone who had been driven crazy. Maybe it was the insult of childbirth. Maybe it was the overwhelming unfairness of what happens to a woman’s status and body and position in the culture once she’s a mother. All those ...more

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The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai

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Glitter and Glue

by Kelly Corrigan

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“Three centuries of early Christian and Jewish documentation, not to mention the nearly unanimous opinion of contemporary scholars, recognize James the brother of Jesus as the head of the first Christian community.... Why then has James been almost wholly excised from the New Testament and his role in the early church displaced by Peter and Paul in the imaginations of most modern Christians?”
― Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

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