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The Message - by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Hardcover)
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A Map Is Only One Story - by Nicole Chung & Mensah Demary (Paperback)
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Azadi - by Arundhati Roy
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Everything and Nothing at Once - by Joél Leon
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The Message - Large Print by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Paperback)
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The Lines That Make Us - by Nathan Vass (Paperback)
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Love That Story - by Jonathan Van Ness
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Thick - by Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Nothing Personal - by James Baldwin (Hardcover)
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - by Alice Walker (Paperback)
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No Better Friend (Reprint) (Paperback) by Robert Weintraub
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover) (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
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Against the Machine - by Paul Kingsnorth (Hardcover)
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Somebody Told Me - by Rick Bragg (Paperback)
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others - by Siri Hustvedt (Paperback)
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A Room of One's Own - by Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
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Cultural Conversions - (Religion and Politics) by Heather J Sharkey (Hardcover)
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How to Write about Africa - by Binyavanga Wainaina (Paperback)
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Trust: Building on the Cultural Commons - by Pascal Gielen (Paperback)
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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet - by Pamela Paul (Hardcover)
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Amistad: Un Ensayo Compartido / Friendship: A Shared Essay - by Mariano Sigman & Jacobo Bergareche (Paperback)
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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness - by Rebecca Solnit (Paperback)
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First Laugh - by Margaret Randall (Paperback)
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Gossip - by Joseph Epstein (Paperback)
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Hillbilly Elegy : A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis - By J. D. Vance ( Paperback )
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The House on Mango Street ( Vintage Contemporaries) (Reissue) (Paperback) by Sandra Cisneros
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All About Love : New Visions (Paperback) (Bell Hooks)
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Mexico's Day of the Dead - by Luisa Navarro (Hardcover)
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When Breath Becomes Air (Hardcover) by Paul Kalanithi
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Voice for the Voiceless - by Dalai Lama (Hardcover)
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Good to Great (Hardcover) by James Collins
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Society as I Have Found It - by Ward McAllister (Paperback)
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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts (Reprint) (Paperback) by Gary Chapman
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Mythology - by Edith Hamilton (Paperback)
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The Year of Magical Thinking ( Vintage International Series) (Reprint) (Paperback) by Joan Didion
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Women Who Run with the Wolves - by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Braving the Wilderness : The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone Reprint - by Brene Brown (Paperback)
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Weird But True! Halloween - by National Geographic Kids & Julie Beer (Paperback)
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Outliers - by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Warmth of Other Suns ( Vintage) (Reprint) (Paperback) by Isabel Wilkerson
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Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness - by Elise Loehnen & Courtney Smith (Paperback)
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How to Know a Person - by David Brooks
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The Message - by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Hardcover)
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A Map Is Only One Story - by Nicole Chung & Mensah Demary (Paperback)
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The 50th Law - by 50 Cent & Robert Greene (Hardcover)
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Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology (Illustrated) (Hardcover) by Ernest Drake
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