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On Morrison

by Namwali Serpell (Goodreads Author)

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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

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Everything She Touched: Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase

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To rid the house of any Japanese artifacts, he dug a big hole to bury the kendo gear and burned the hakama, beautiful Japanese books on flower arrangement—tea ceremony, Japanese dolls, Japanese badminton paddles. I still see Lois weeping ...more

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“Dalia had long believed in Einstein's words—that "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
― Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

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“Her professionalism aside, Nabisase's victory was rigged by an endomorph and a goblin standing in crabgrass, and she would never know it. There are so many lives decided this way.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic

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