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The Footnote by Anthony Grafton

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Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

Moses the Egyptian by Jan Assmann

The Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Divided by Faith by Benjamin J. Kaplan

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Die Götter im Exil

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Die Götter im Exil

by Heinrich Heine

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Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

by Natalie Zemon Davis

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