Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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South and West: From a Notebook

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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Talk

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Things Fall Apart

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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

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Undiscovered

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Ways of Seeing

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The White Album

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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

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Women & Power: A Manifesto

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The Years

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The Anthropocene Reviewed

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The Best We Could Do

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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How Shall We Kill the Bishop and other Stories (Heinemann African Writers Series)

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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Into the War

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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

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The Basque History of the World

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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)

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Nervous Conditions

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Regarding the Pain of Others

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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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The Color Purple

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