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The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter

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Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government

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The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction

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The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction

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American Politics: A Very Short Introduction

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Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

The American Poetry and Literacy Project

We Are Not From Here

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A Very Large Expanse of Sea

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The Rock and the River (The Rock and the River, #1)

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We Are Not Free

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Gold Mountain

Betty G. Yee

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Little Women

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The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

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Someone Knows My Name

Lawrence Hill

Junie

Erin Crosby Eckstine

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

Arthur Miller

If I Ever Get Out of Here

Eric Gansworth

The Indigo Girl

Natasha Boyd

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Joyce Carol Oates

The Moor's Account

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