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Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Storming the Gates of Paradise by Rebecca Solnit The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 1984 by George Orwell The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey Dubliners by James Joyce The Aeneid by Virgil White Noise by Don DeLillo The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the Skin of a Lion (Vintage International) by Michael Ondaatje
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He knows the robust calls from the small bodies of cicadas, but he wants conversation – the language of damsel flies who need something to translate their breath the way he uses the ocarina to give himself a voice, something to leap with ...more
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Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Travel


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