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The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
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The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
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The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
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True Freedom How America came to fight Britain for its independence.
March 1, 2025Can one man create a revolution? While I was working on my novel True Freedom, centering...





