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The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria Dispatches by Michael Herr Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose The Gunslinger by Stephen King The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley April 1865 by Jay Winik The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins U2 by U2 by U2 Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn’t be ...more
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