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The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Zero by Charles Seife The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt Getting Things Done by David Allen The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
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Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All by William Zinsser
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