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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
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The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
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Kindred
by Octavia E Butler
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
by Gregory Maguire
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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Travels with Myself and Another
by Martha Gellhorn
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01)
by Jasper Fforde
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
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The Host
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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (Liberation Trilogy)
by Rick Atkinson
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
by Elizabeth Strout
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White Teeth (Vintage International)
by Zadie Smith
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #01: The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more)

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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
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by Witold Rybczynski
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The Archer's Tale
by Bernard Cornwell
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From master storyteller Bernard Cornwell comes a spellbinding epic of duty, love, and valor forged in the fires of the hundred years war. A brutal raid on the quiet coastal English village of Hookton in 1342 leaves but one survivor: a young archer named... (read more)

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