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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

by Michael Moss

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When She Woke

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Mark made a comment on his review of When She Woke "I've been wanting to read this one since it came out. I read and loved Mudbound last year. This one does remind me of the Handmaids Tale. "
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“And finally this, when the sun was falling down so beautiful we didn’t have time to give it a name, she held the child born of white mother and red father and said,’ Both sides of this baby are beautiful’.”
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