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Michael Murphy-Burton

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Fudge or The Day the Bubble Burst

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C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide

by Nicolai M. Josuttis

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Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

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I tried with this book. I really did. I've heard so many things about Michael Pollan's book about "eating food, mostly plants, not too much" that I thought it had to be absolutely required reading. But frankly, in a year when RFK Jr. is decimating he ...more
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