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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

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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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The Towers of Trebizond

by Rose Macaulay

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The Consolation of Philosophy: De consolatione philosophiae Translated into English Prose and Verse

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