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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Vincent Price by Victoria Price Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin Beowulf by Unknown God's Perfect Child by Caroline Fraser Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley My Teacher Flunked the Planet by Bruce Coville
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Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
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Randall Munroe
“There’s no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word “NO” scrawled over and over in charred blood.”
― Randall Munroe, What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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