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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." — Franz Kafka.
Camwood at Crossroads
By: Femi Euba
Swallow
By: Sefi Atta
Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge in Africa
By: Toyin Falola
Everyday is for the Thief
By: Teju Cole
The History of the Yoruba
By: The Rev. Samuel Johnson
Man's Search for Meaning By: Viktor E. Frankl
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
By: Dr. Robert D. Hare
Diary of a Bad Year By: J.M. Coetzee
The Elephanta Suite
By: Paul Theroux
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Helon Habila
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Measuring Time
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Wizard of the Crow, Matigari, Weep Not, Child, The River Between, Devil on the Cross, Petals of Blood, A Grain of Wheat
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Thomas Mann
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Death in Venice
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Wole Soyinka
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir, The Man Died, Ake: The Years of Childhood, Isara: A Voyage Around Essay, Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years-a Memoir 1945-65, The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness, Death and the King's Horseman, The Open Sore of a Continent, Collected Plays I & II, and much more.
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Chris Abani
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Becoming Abigail
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Oyekan Owomoyela
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Yoruba Proverbs, Yoruba Trickster Tales
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Dr. Olusegun Fayemi
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Windows To The Soul:Photographs Celebrating African Women
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Hakeem Tijani
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Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965
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Tejumola Olaniyan
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Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics
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Philip Roth |
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Exit Ghost
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Yasunari Kawabata
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The Dancing Girl Of Izu And Other Stories
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Martha Cooley
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The Archivist
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Johnson-Odim and Mba
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For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria
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Debra Dickerson
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The End of Blackness
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Sefi Atta
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Everything Good Will Come
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Lou Andreas-Salome
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Looking Back: Memoirs: The intimate story of her friendships with Nietzsche, Rilke & Freud: Translated by Breon Mitchell
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Cornel West
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism, Race Matters, The Future of the Race with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Cornel West Reader, Restoring Hope:Conversations on the Future of Black America, The Future of American Progressivism with Roberto Unger, Jews and Blacks: Let the healing begin with Micheal Lerner
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Toyin Falola
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A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir
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Elechi Amadi
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The Concubine
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Flora Nwapa
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This is Lagos And Other Stories, Efuru, One is Enough
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Lynne Tillman
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Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and BOOKS & CO.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Purple Hibiscus
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Amos Tutuola
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle, The Wild Hunter in the Bush of the Ghosts, The Brave African Huntress, The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town, The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories, Feather Woman of the Jungle, Pauper, Brawler, and Slanderer
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Ezenwa-Ohaeto
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A Biography of Chinua Achebe
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Seraph On The Suwanee, Tell My Horse, I Love Myself, Jonah's Gourd Vine, The Complete Stories, Mules and Men, Moses: Man Of The Mountain, Go Gator And Muddy The Water, Every Tongue Got to Confess
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Chris Abani
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Abigail, Graceland
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Ronald Takaki
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A Different Mirror
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Naguib Mahfouz
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The Cairo Trilogy
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Nadine Gordimer
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Loot: And other Stories, The Pickup
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J. M. Coetzee
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Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace, Foe, Age of Iron, The Master of Petersburg
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Mitch Albom
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
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P.C. Lloyd
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Yoruba Land Law
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Oyeronke Oyewumi
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The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discources, African Women & Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood. To Purchase: Links
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Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
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Zahrah the Windseeker
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Olusegun Fayemi
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Voices from Within: Duotone photographs of children from Africa south of the Sahara. To Purchase: Links
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Ben Okri
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The Famished Road
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Camara Laye
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A Dream of Africa
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Buchi Emecheta
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The Bride Price, The Rape of Shavi, The Family, The Joys of Motherhood, The Slave Girl, Second Class Citizen, Kehinde
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Chinua Achebe
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Girls At War And Other Stories, No Longer At Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, Hopes and Impediments, Things Fall Apart
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Cyprian Ekwensi
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Juju Rock, People of the City
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Helon Habila
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Waiting for an Angel
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Desmond Tutu
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No Future Without Forgiveness
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African Film Festival: New York
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Through African Eyes: Dialogues with the Directors
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D. O. Fagunwa
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The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga, Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale: Revised Edition
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Mojubaolu Olufunke-Okome
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A Sapped Democracy: Structural Adjustment Program and the Political Transition in Nigeria (1983-1993)
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Kunle Ajibade
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Jailed for Life: A Reporter's Prison Notes
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Moses Isegawa
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Abyssinian Chronicles
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Donatus Ibe Nwoga
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West African Verse: An Anthology
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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The Trials Of Phillis Wheatley, Colored People, The Future of the Race with Cornel West
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David G. Maillu
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The Common Man
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Mark Mathabane
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Miriam's Song
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Henry John Drewal and Margaret Thompson Drewal
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Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba, Beads, Body and Soul with John Mason
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Paradise
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Caryl Phillips
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The European Tribe, The Atlantic Sound
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James Baldwin
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Giovanni's Room, A Rap On Race, Just Above My Head, The Devil Finds Work, Going To Meet The Man, Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone, The Fire Next Time, Notes of a Native Son, Go Tell It On The Mountain, No Name In The Street, If Beale Street Could Talk, Another Country, Artist On Fire
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Richard Wright
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Savage Holiday, Native Son, White Man: Listen, Black Boy, Eight Men, The Outsider, Uncle Tom's Children, The Color Curtain, Black Power, Pagan Spain, Rite of Passage, Daemonic Genius with Margaret Walker
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V. S. Naipaul
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Beyond Belief, Miguel Street, The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book, The Enigma of Arrival, Half a Life, The Mimic Men, The Mystic Masseur, A Bend in the River
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Simon Ottenberg
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Boyhood Rituals In An African Society
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Toni Cade Bambara
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Those Bones Are Not My Child, The Black Woman
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bell hooks
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Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, Salvation: Black People and Love, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, Communion: The Female Search for Love
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Irvin D. Yalom
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The Schopenhauer Cure, When Nietzsche Wept, Love's Executioner, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of Life, Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings
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Nikki Giovanni
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Quilting The Black-Eyed Pea, Racism 101, The Collected Poetry of Nikki giovanni
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Alice Walker
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In Search of our Mothers' Gardens, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, Possessing the Secret of Joy, By The Light of My Father's Smile
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Cheryl Jarvis
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Marriage Sabbatical
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Carter G. Woodson
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Yoshiko Uchida
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Desert Exile
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Paul Theroux
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town, My Other Life, The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, Picture Palace, Kowloon Tong, The Family Arsenal, Hotel Honolulu, My Secret History, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
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Robert M. Pirsig
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, LILA: An Inquiry into Morals.
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Harold Cruse
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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Rebellion or Revolution
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Annie John, A Small Place
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Angela Y. Davis
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If They Come In The Morning, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
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Randall Kennedy
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Race, Crime and the Law
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W.E. B. Du Bois
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn Essays
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Ralph Ellison
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Invisible Man, Shadow and Act, Flying Home, Juneteenth
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Keith B. Richburg
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Out of America
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John Edgar Wideman
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Philadelphia Fire, Brothers and Keepers, The Cattle Killing, Fatheralong, My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature
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Bruce Wright
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Black Robes, White Justice
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Camille Paglia
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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Paula Giddings
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When and Where I Enter:The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, In Search of Sisterhood
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Toni Morrison
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Paradise, Songs of Solomon, Sula, Beloved, Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Love
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Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary
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Fredrick Douglass
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Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass
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Aristotle
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On Man In The Universe
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Murasaki Shikibu
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The Tale of Genji
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Jonathan Kozol
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Savage Inequalities
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Stanley Crouch
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Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997
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Clarence Shole Johnson
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Cornel West and Philosophy
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Mosley, Diawara, Taylor and Austin
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Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems
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Richard Leakey
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The Origin of Humankind
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John T. Burrow
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The Origin of the Universe
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Paul Davies
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The Last Three Minutes
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Elizabeth Isichei
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A History of Christianity in Africa
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Ferdinand Tonnes
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Karl Marx: His Life and Teachings
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Charles Larson
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Under African Skies
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Shelby Steele
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The Content of Our Character
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Derrick Bell
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Faces At The Bottom Of The Well
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Miles Davis With Quincy Troupe
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Miles: The Autobiography
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
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Gerald Early
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Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation
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Faith Berry
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Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem
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Linn Washington
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Black Judges on Justice
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Ellen Wright & Michel Fabre
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Richard Wright Reader
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David Lewis
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race: 1868-1919, The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919-1963
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Anthony Samson
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Mandela: The Authorized Biography
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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The Sport of the Gods
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Sigmund Freud
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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John A. Williams
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The Man Who Cried I Am
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Paul Collins
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Sixpence House: Lost In A Town Of Books
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Guiseppe Pontiggia
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The Invisible Player
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Victor Hugo
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Toilers of the Sea
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Frank Kermode and Keith Walker
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Andrew Marvell
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Tom Hiney
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On the Missionary Trail: A Journey through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa
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Tomas Salamun
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Feast Poems
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Kevin Rushby
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Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man's Journey Through Ethiopia and Yemen
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Andre Aciman
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False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory
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Kelly James
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Dancing With the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa
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Sokei-An
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Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen
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Flor Fernandez Barrios
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Blessed by Thunder
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David Crow
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In Search of the Medicine Buddha: A Himalayan Journey
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Michela Wrong
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Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
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Nalo Hopkinson
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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Strength to Love, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tara Bennett-Goleman
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Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The Evolving Self
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Octavio Paz
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The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico
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Mary Brave Bird
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Lakota Woman, Ohitika Woman
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Roy Richard Grinker
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In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull
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Harvard Sitkoff
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The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1980
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Edward Margolies
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Native Sons: A Critical Study of Twentieth-Century Negro American Authors
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Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary
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I Put A Spell On You
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Nicholas Lemann
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The Promised Land
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Paul Finkelman
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His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
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David Hilliard and Lewis Cole
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This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party
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J.L Chestnut, Jr. and Julia Cass
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Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.: Politics and Power in a Small American Town
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Andrew Hacker
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Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
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Martin Gilbert
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Churchill: A Life
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Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner
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Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers Correspondence: 1926-1969
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Todd, Hayward, Weissbort
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An Anthology: Twentieth Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel
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Pascal Quignard
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The Salon in Wurttemberg
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Richard Appignanesi
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Italia Perversa: Part One: Stalin's Orphans, Two: The Mosque, Three: Destroying America
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Jean Piaget
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Possibility and Necessity Vol. I & II
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Paul Monette
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Becoming A Man: Half A Life Story
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Richardson and Taylor
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Feminist Frontiers III
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Adam B. Ulam
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The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual, Personal and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia
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Ethan Bronner
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Battle for Justice
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Barry Callaghan
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The Way The Angel Spreads Her Wings
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Diane Wood Middlebrook
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
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Harold Fromm
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Academic Capitalism & Literary Value
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Jon Weiner
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Professors, Politics, and Pop
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Walker Percy
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Signposts in a Strange Land
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Phyllis Grosskurth
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The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
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Jaroslav Pelikan
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The Idea of a University: A Reexamination
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Serge Bramly
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Leonardo: Discovering The Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Noel Annan
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Our Age: English Intellectuals Between The World Wars: A Group Portrait
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Judity Farr
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The Passion of Emily Dickinson
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Roland Oliver
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The African Experience: Major Themes In African History From Earliest Times To The Present
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Robert Graves
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The Greek Myths
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T.E. Lawrence
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The Odyssey of Homer: Translated
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David Dubal
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An Evening With {Vladimir} Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
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Francois Rabelais
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Gargantua and Pantagruel: Translated by Burton Raffel
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Anthony A. Barrett
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Caligula: The Corruption of Power
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Carlos Fuentes
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The Years with Laura Diaz, Inez
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Sapphire
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Black Wings & Blind Angels
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Mark V. Tushnet
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Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991
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Charles W. Eliot
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The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato: Translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus: Translated by Hastings Crossley, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Translated by George Long.
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James Hynes
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Publish of Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
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Robert Alter
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Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem
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Carolly Erickson
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To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette
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Neil Bissoondath
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On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows
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Thomas Colchie
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A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America
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Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina
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Milan Kundera
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Immortality
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Antonio Lobo Antunes
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An Explanation of the Birds: Translated by Richard Zenith
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James M. Saslow
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The Poetry of Michealangelo: An Annotated Translation
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Gowans & Gray
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The Masterpieces of Carpaccio & Gorggione
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Robert Browning
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Poems and Plays
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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Poems
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes: With an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole
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