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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 1984 by George Orwell Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Night by Elie Wiesel The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Dream Work by Mary Oliver The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!
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