Iris Benjamin

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Cultish: The Lang...

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

by Amanda Montell (Goodreads Author)

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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

by Timothy Egan (Goodreads Author)

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

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