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The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet

by Yi-Ling Liu (Goodreads Author)

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The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

by Mark Braude (Goodreads Author)

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Our Town: The Timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning Drama (Perennial Classics)

by Thornton Wilder

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A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us by Catherine Hoke

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People stop stabbing each other when they actually believe they can have a positive, legal future.

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