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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

by Barbara Demick (Goodreads Author)

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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

by Louis Menand

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La mia resistenza

by Roberto Denti

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“A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“The important thing is to make sure that when death comes, it finds us still alive.”
― Fausto Brizzi, 100 Days of Happiness

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“Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

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