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Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

by Dr Jeremy Brown

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Blowout

by Rachel Maddow (Goodreads Author)

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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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