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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Rascal King by Jack Beatty Reconstruction by Eric Foner The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda Lost Battalions by Richard Slotkin The Death of an American Jewish Community by Hillel Levine Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Weimar Germany by Eric D. Weitz The Land at the End of the World by António Lobo Antunes The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
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