Day: June 23, 2006

Michelle Orange, This Is Running for Your Life: Essays

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Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger

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Elie Wiesel, Night

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Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

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Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Anthony Liccione

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Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans

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Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House

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Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

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