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White Teeth by Zadie Smith Time and Materials by Robert Hass Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B.H. Fairchild Beloved by Toni Morrison The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Dollmaker's Ghost by Larry Levis Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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Subordinate Chaos
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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
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Perhaps he had been selfish, his notion of helping the youth and the country through teaching and research merely an expression of vanity, and the far more decent path would have been to pursue wealth at all costs.
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Alan Newman
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Kelly Shea
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Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Science fiction, Suspense, Sports, Thriller, and Young-adult


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