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The Sportswriter by Richard Ford Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Under the Skin by Michel Faber 1984 by George Orwell The Death and Life of Dith Pran by Sydney Schanberg Erasure by Percival Everett Lethal Passage by Erik Larson Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith American Massacre by Sally Denton
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The Redbreast
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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