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Tess’s favorite books

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10 by Ben Lerner

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Tess’s Bookshelves

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read‎ (172)
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Memory

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by Dorothea Lasky (Goodreads Author)

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The Question of Palestine

by Edward W. Said

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The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile

by Alice Oswald

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Katie Lane

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Laura Main

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Kate Knox

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Kate Sully

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Michael

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