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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)

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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve

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This added some interesting color to my understanding of what ancient Jewish people might have understood around the time of Jesus. Some parts, like The Luminaries which describes their view of the calendar and seasons, were very dull.
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This was a useful resource as my family got into building and maintaining an aquarium.
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