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Shadow of a bull
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Creature ABC
Pony island
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Butterflies And Moths
Bubble Homes & Fish Farts

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Around The World

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Zen
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At the back of the North Wind
The Age of Innocence
The Quiet American

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Art

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In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey
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Better World

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How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

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Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Jane Austen: A Life
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Secret Lives of the First Ladies

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I am Gandhi

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How to Attract Birds to Your Garden: Foods they like, plants they love, shelter they need
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The Gollywhopper Games
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Home of the Brave
All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank
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Shakespeare Wrote for Money
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
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The School of Essential Ingredients
The Waitress Was New
Blue jelly
Not becoming my mother
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Creativity

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Seven Days in the Art World
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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You Can Be
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The naming of Tishkin Silk
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No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club
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First Notes of Spring
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Acorn Was a Little Wild
I Am Able to Shine
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The earth dragon awakes
Pompeii: Lost & Found
Influenza 1918
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Under My Hijab
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Going Down Home with Daddy

Charlie Hernández and the League of Shadows
Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes
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England

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The Pursuit of Love
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Stone Cold
All Things Wise and Wonderful
My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir

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Essays

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Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses
Collections of Nothing
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

From Where You Dream
Between Panic and Desire

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Family

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Little Tiger
Red at the Bone
Zombies Don't Eat Veggies!
Once Upon a Goat
American Royals

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Favorites

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A Wrinkle in Time
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Lonesome Dove
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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Fiction

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Afterlife
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
The Black Kids
The Pull of the Stars
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The greedy sparrow
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The lion & the mouse
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The Comfort Food Diaries

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Two for the Road

Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy

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France

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Early Novels
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
Serve It Forth
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The Farmer and the Monkey
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Look Both Ways

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Around the world in eighty days
The Pull of the Stars

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Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking With What You've Got
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
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New Kid
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride
I am Gandhi
The Iliad
American Born Chinese

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How to Change Your Entire Life by Doing Absolutely Nothing
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Schopenhauer's Porcupines

Sarah, plain and tall
Hometown Tales
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Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
The boy who grew flowers
The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit
Perrault's Fairy Tales
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Health

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Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story Of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way To Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!
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My Own Country
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The Passion of Artemisia
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Dear Mrs. Bird
Simon the Fiddler
Finding Dorothy A Novel

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History

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A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light
The Train to Crystal City
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America
Diana's White House Garden
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

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How To

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Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?
Whatever You Are, Be a Good One

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Humor

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The Uncommon Reader
Fearless Fourteen
Can't wait to get to heaven
Plato and a platypus walk into a bar--
A Redbird Christmas

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Imagination

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Off to See the Sea
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Shy Willow
This Is Still Not a Book
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Inspiration

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The World According To Mister Rogers
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Patches of Godlight

Dios Hara Algo Grande: God Is Up to Something Great
Too Busy To Count The Years
The Art of Noticing

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Italy

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Flirting in Italian
Four Seasons in Rome
Death in Venice
A Thousand Days in Venice
Lost Hearts in Italy

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Japan

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Dodsworth in Tokyo
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
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36 Views of Mount Fuji

A Year in Japan
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan

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Just For Fun

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Standing in the Rainbow
How Perfect Is That
Jackson and Bud's Bumpy Ride: America's First Cross-Country Automobile Trip
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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Justice

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Just Mercy
Exit West
Ella Queen of Jazz
Marwan's Journey
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State

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Kids 1001

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Anastasia Krupnik
Utterly me, Clarice Bean
The tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Little Toot
Maisy Goes to Preschool: A Maisy First Experiences Book

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Learning

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Disrupting Class
From Where You Dream
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If America Were a Village

Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia
Play

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The Dewey Decimal System of Love
Here lies the librarian
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In the Stacks

The Case of the Missing Books
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

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Lists

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The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen
Never Coming to A Theater Near You
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known: Before I Went Out Into the Real World
Endangered Pleasures
Lists of Note

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Magic

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My Friend Mr. Leakey
The Last Dragon
Music for Mister Moon
Half Magic
The Well-Wishers

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Memoir

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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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The Egg and I

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Birds, beasts and relatives
The Flatshare
The Colour of Magic
The case of the one-eyed killer stud horse
The Phantom Tollbooth

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Moving And Starting Over

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Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Honeymoon in Purdah
Between Panic and Desire
Await Your Reply
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

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Must Read

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Miss Lonelyhearts
Holes
Bless Me, Ultima
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Things They Carried

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Mystery

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G is for Gumshoe
Free Fall
Await Your Reply
The Secret History
Bad Things Happen

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Nature

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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
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In the Trees, Honey Bees: A Rhyming Nature Book for Kids
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life

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Newbery

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Miracles on Maple Hill
Shadow of a bull
Call It Courage
Holes
Like Jake and Me

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New York City

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McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
Humans of New York: Stories
Humans of New York
Through the children's gate

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Nonfiction

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Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick

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Not My Cuppa

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Poor People
Nothing
The Christmas Box
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles
Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship

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Old Age

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Emily, Alone
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Our Souls at Night
The Old Man and the Sea
How to live

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On The Road

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Waiting for Augusta
Lonesome Dove
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Turn South at the Second Bridge
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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The Very Picture of You
Haiti after the earthquake
The Chocolate War
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor

Utterly me, Clarice Bean

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Paradox

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The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine
Just Because

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Parenting

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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Gifted
Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of Desperation and Delight
Seeing past Z
Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life: Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child

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104 books

Philosophy

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Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Places That Scare You

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Photography

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Rick Sammon's Field Guide to Digital Photography: Quick Lessons on Making Great Pictures
Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression
Photo Op: 52 Inspirational Projects for the Adventurous Image-maker
Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters' Guide to Shooting from the Heart
The Unforgettable Photograph

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Picture Book

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Moby-Dick or, the Whale
A Piglet Named Mercy
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Going Down Home with Daddy

Roly Poly
Bikes for Sale

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Play

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Side by Side : A Celebration of Dads from two-time Caldecott Medal Winner
Salsa Lullaby
G is for Golazo: The Ultimate Soccer Alphabet
Shakespeare Made Easy: Twelfth Night:grades 7-9
Because

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Poetry

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The Best American Poetry 2008

The Best American Poetry 2006
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Poet's Choice

Journal of a Solitude
Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

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Post Apocalypse

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Invitation to the Game
Uglies
A.D.
The Year of the Flood
The Handmaid's Tale

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Poverty

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Poor People
Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea
A Fine Balance
The Good Earth
The Last Shot

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Problems Ideas

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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Stupid White Men : And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Heaven on Earth
Little Bee

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57 books

Purpose

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A Gentleman in Moscow
Paddle-to-the-Sea
The World's Poorest President Speaks Out
Infinite Country
All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Quest

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Buddha Da

The Great Failure
Holes
Bless Me, Ultima
The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself

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Reading

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Readicide

Reading magic
More Baths, Less Talking
The End of Your Life Book Club
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The Reading Zone

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Redemption

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Silas Marner
Beautiful Ruins
Excellent Advice for Living
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
Dear Edward

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Relationships

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The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century
Like Jake and Me
The Help
Still Alice
The Housekeeper and the Professor

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Scary Suspenseful

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The Homecoming
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Beasts
Chilling Cemeteries
The Halloween Tree

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Schools

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Columbine
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Genius Denied

Into That Good Night
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The teachers' night before Christmas

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Science

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Cece loves science

Red Sky at Night
Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet
Stardust
Unsheltered

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Sci Fi Fantasy

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Only you can save mankind
The Year of the Flood
Catching Fire
Tales From Outer Suburbia
Foundation

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Serendipity

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Improv for Writers

Draft No. 4
Stuck
The Zoom Trilogy
Chapter Two Is Missing

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Simplicity

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Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
Story of a Soul
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
Silence
The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

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Social Justice

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Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights
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Freedom Walkers

The Hate U Give
The Undefeated
Africville

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Southern

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The Last Girls
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest
Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch

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Spanish

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Essential Guide to Spanish Reading for Children And Young Adults: America Reads Spanish
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Little Doctor / El doctorcito
The Story Circle / El Circulo de Cuentos
A Surprise for Teresita / Una Sorpresa Para Teresita

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Spirituality

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Faith
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
My Name is Asher Lev
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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Sports

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G is for Golazo: The Ultimate Soccer Alphabet
Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure
World's Strangest Basketball Stories
The Last Shot
Play their hearts out

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185 books

Strong Girls Strong Women

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Travels With My Aunt
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
Little Women
Invincible Louisa
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

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Summer

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Life's a Beach
Shopalicious
Holes
The Provence cure for the brokenhearted
Do-Over!