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The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria

by Samar Yazbek

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City on Fire

by Garth Risk Hallberg

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The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution

by David Kamp

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“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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“I am excessively diverted. ”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.”
― Pico Iyer

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