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Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower

Snug : a collection of comics about dating your best friend

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Grace will lead us home : the Charleston Church Massacre and the hard, inspiring journey to forgiveness

Shakespeare in a divided America : what his plays tell us about our past and future

The less people know about us : a mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and stolen identity

The British are coming : the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

The loneliness of the long-distance cartoonist

Midnight in Chernobyl : the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster

Owls of the eastern ice : a quest to find and save the world's largest owl

Until the end of time : mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe

The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice

Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power

Antisocial : online extremists, techno-utopians, and the hijacking of the American conversation

The biggest bluff : how I learned to pay attention, master myself, and win

Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love

The queens of animation : the untold story of the women who transformed the world of Disney and made cinematic history

I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution

Late migrations : a natural history of love and loss

Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world

Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland

I know what I am : the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi

The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War

Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion

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Birdman : or, (The unexpected virtue of ignorance)

A collection of 2005 Academy Award nominated short films

Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

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