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The Lesson
Cadwell Turnbull
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The New House
David Leo Rice
A family of outsider artists roams the American interior in search of the New Jerusalem in David Leo Rice's new...
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Quiet - Summarized for Busy People
Goldmine Reads
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Faces and Masks: Memory of Fire, Volume 2
Eduardo Galeano
The second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of...
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The Found and the Lost
Ursula K. Le Guin
Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time in one breathtaking...
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The Gender Wheel
Maya Gonzalez
"This is our world. Like many things in nature it's round and holds everyone at the same time. This is...
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I Am Enough
Grace Byers
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Savage Tongues
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
A new novel by PEN/Faulkner Award winner Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi--"if you don't know this name yet, you should"...
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