Jan Benson

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Jan’s favorite books

The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

My Life with the Saints by James Martin

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

God's Long Summer by Charles Marsh

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

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The Lion Women of...

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The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)

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The God of the Woods

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The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore (Goodreads Author)

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

by Sogyal Rinpoche

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