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The Medieval World

by Lydia G. (trans.) Le Goff, Jacques (ed.); Cochrane

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“People were complicated.”
― Jennifer Bene, Taken by the Enemy

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“Freedom might mean she had lost him.”
― Zannie Adams, Hold

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“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

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that things continue to be shown
to me and everyone else.”
― Colin Andersen, Out of Nowhere

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