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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

The Sandman, Vol. 9 by Neil Gaiman

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J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth by Bradley J. Birzer

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus by Graham Chapman

The Sandman, Vol. 4 by Neil Gaiman

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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