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A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture

by Sarah B. Pomeroy

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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

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“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“And I know I said earlier that he was perfect but he wasn’t perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote and often cruel and still we loved him, in spite of, because.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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“Sometimes, when the gods aren't looking and destiny loses its way, even good people get a taste of good luck in their lives.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Labyrinth of the Spirits

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