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The Green Mile by Stephen King The Dirt by Tommy Lee The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by Donald Worster Darsan by Diana L. Eck Pet Sematary by Stephen King On Writing by Stephen King The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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