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Amanda’s favorite books

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner A Human Being Died That Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult City of Thieves by David Benioff
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The Push by Ashley Audrain
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It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother’s heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother’s blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to ...more
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