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The Sculptor
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...
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Somme Mud: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France, 1916–1919
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
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Electricity for Beginners
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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The Fat Man in History
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Highways to a War
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The Master and Margarita
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Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War
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Dune (Dune #1)
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The Age of Miracles
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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Burning Bright
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Wonder
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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
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Time of White Horses
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Chinatown
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The Speed of Dark
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Tirra Lirra by the River
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Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems 1954 to 1997
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Orlando
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The Last Runaway
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East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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Liberator (Worldshaker, #2)
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The Confusions of Young Törless
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Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age, 1780-1830
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Two Boys Kissing
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Wise Blood
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Batman: Year One
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Frank Miller (Writer)
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The Complete Conan Saga
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Poison Under Their Lips
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Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
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The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
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Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope
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BOND: WAR PLAYS
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Speaking in Tongues
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All-Star Superman, Vol. 1
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Unlocked
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The Killer Inside Me
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I'll Give You the Sun
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Briar Rose
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Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
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In the Skin of a Lion
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Westsiders
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William Shaw (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Batman: The Killing Joke
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Billy Budd and Other Stories
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The Tin Drum
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Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle, #1)
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The Sopranos
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Equus
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Kim
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A Street in Arnhem: The Agony of Occupation and Liberation
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Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
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The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
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Collected Poems
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Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War
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The Collected Poems
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Arnhem 1944 - A Bridge Too Far?
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
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Stories of War
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Liar
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Chauvel of the Light Horse: A biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, G.C.M.G., K.C.B
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Crack Hardy: From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, the True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War
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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
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The Dragon Man (Peninsular Crimes, #1)
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Shallows
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An Open Swimmer
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Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
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Eleven Seasons
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Four Souls
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
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Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
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Every Secret Thing
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Little Bit Long Time
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Reading in the Dark
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Fight Club
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Jul 24, 2017 03:35PM
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mahhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller) novelThe Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) novel
Henry IV, part I
Lainie wrote: "Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mahhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5..."
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Also what about House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, or Daughter of Fortune.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Bride's Farewell by Meg RosoffTrash by Andy Mulligan
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes
In my view the sexual violence in Breath by Tim Winton would make it an unsuitable choice for a school text
Joan wrote: "In my view the sexual violence in Breath by Tim Winton would make it an unsuitable choice for a school text"I agree.
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