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Who Is Mark Twain?
by Mark Twain
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Turn Coat (Dresden Files #11)
by Jim Butcher
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Reader (Widescreen)

The Reader, set in post-WWII Germany, follows teenager Michael Berg as he engages in a passionate but secretive affair with an older woman named Hanna. Eight years after Hanna's disappearance, Michael is stunned to discover her again as she stands on trial for Nazi war crimes. The Reader is a haunting story about truth and reconciliation and how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.... (read more)

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Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha: A Real World Guide to an Unreal Life
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Inherent Vice
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I'm no pro from Dover, but I think that there are as many ways of looking at a work by Pynchon as he has storylines in each book. Inherent Vice is definitely one of the more approachable works by a guy who can have the reader wading hip-deep through... (read more)

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The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
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