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Castle Rackrent and the Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise\]\ by Betty Radice
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The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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Rasskazy by Jeff  Parker
Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia
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I was able to read all but one story and that one was like reading a literal translation of an original Latin text by someone who did not understand that there were no punctuations in ancient Rome and has decided not to do so with the translation.

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Verity voted on the list Best Scottish fiction
The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott The Monarch of the Glen by Compton Mackenzie Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
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Moscow - 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich
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The Women's Decameron by Julia Voznesenskaya
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Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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“Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. ”
Charles Caleb Colton

Walter Moers
“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”
Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books (Dreaming Books, #1)

John F. Kennedy
“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.”
John F. Kennedy

Richard Wright
“It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
Richard Wright, Black Boy

John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
John Milton, Paradise Lost

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