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The Master by Colm Tóibín The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner The Bride and the Bachelors by Calvin Tomkins The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Catch-22 by Joseph Heller A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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The Postmistress
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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