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Book Club in a Bag
Check out a tote bag full of copies of the same book to use for your book discussion group. One person from your group can check out a bag that contains ten copies of a title and a book discussion guide with discussion questions, author biographies, and reviews. Each bag may be checked out for two months. Below are a list of available fiction and non-fiction titles in our catalog.
To reserve a title for your next book club or for more information, stop by the Reference Desk, call 215-723-9109, ext. 3, or email refdesk@ivpl.org.
New: Reserve a book club in a bag ahead of time online! Tap here to place your reservation.
Fiction (alphabetical by author)
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Albom, Mitch - The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Allende, Isabel - In the Midst of Winter
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Alvarez, Julia – In the Time of the Butterflies
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Atkinson, Kate – Case Histories
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Austen, Jane – Sense & Sensibility
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Backman, Fredrik:
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A Man Called Ove
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
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Barbery, Muriel – The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Benjamin, Melanie – The Aviator’s Wife
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Bohjalian, Chris - The Double Bind
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Brooks, Geraldine - Year of Wonders
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Chevalier, Tracy – Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Christie, Agatha – Murder on the Orient Express
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Cisneros, Sandra – The House on Mango Street
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Cleave, Chris – Little Bee
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Coelho, Paulo – The Alchemist
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Colgan, Jenny – The Bookshop on the Corner
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Dai, Sijie – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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De los Santos, Marisa – Love Walked In
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Diamant, Anita – The Red Tent
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Diffenbaugh, Vanessa – The Language of Flowers
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Doerr, Anthony – All the Light We Cannot See
E
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Edwards, Kim – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
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Enger, Leif – Peace Like a River
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Fergus, Jim – One Thousand White Women
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Ferrante, Elena - My Brilliant Friend
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Flagg, Fannie – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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Foer, Jonathan Safran – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Foley, Lucy - The Guest List
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Ford, Jamie – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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French, Tana - In the Woods
G
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Genova, Lisa – Still Alice
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Gruen, Sara – Water for Elephants
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Guterson, David – Snow Falling on Cedars
H
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Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Hannah, Kristin – The Nightingale
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Harper, Jane - The Dry
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Honeyman, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Horowitz, Anthony – Magpie Murders
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Hosseini, Khaled – A Thousand Splendid Suns
I
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Irving, John – A Widow for One Year
J
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Jacobs, Kate – The Friday Night Knitting Club
K
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Kidd, Sue Monk:
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The Invention of Wings
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The Mermaid Chair
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible
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Kline, Christina Baker – Orphan Train
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Krueger, William Kent - This Tender Land
L
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Landvik, Lorna – Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
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Larsen, Nella - Passing
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Lee, Min Jin – Pachinko
M
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McCall Smith, Alexander - The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
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McLain, Paula – The Paris Wife
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Morgenstern, Erin – The Night Circus
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Morris, Heather – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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Morton, Kate – The Forgotten Garden
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Moyes, Jojo – Me Before You
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O
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Obreht, Tea – The Tiger’s Wife
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O’Brien, Tim – The Things They Carried
P
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Patchett, Ann - State of Wonder
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Pearlman, Ann – The Christmas Cookie Club
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R
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Rachman, Tom – The Imperfectionists
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Rinehart, Mary Roberts - The Wall
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Rosnay, Tatiana de – Sarah’s Key
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Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
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Ruiz Zafón, Carlos – The Shadow of the Wind
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Russo, Richard – Empire Falls
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Rutledge, Lynda - West With Giraffes
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Setterfield, Diane – The Thirteenth Tale
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Shaffer, Mary Ann – The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
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Simonson, Helen – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
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Simsion, Graeme – The Rosie Project
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Stedman, M.L – The Light Between Oceans
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Stein, Garth – The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Stout, Elizabeth – Olive Kitteridge
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Sullivan, Mark – Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Swanson, Peter - Eight Perfect Murders
T
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Toibin, Colm – Brooklyn
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Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow
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Trigiani, Adriana – Big Stone Gap
U
V
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Vargas, Fred – The Chalk Circle Man
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Verghese, Abraham – Cutting for Stone
W
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Ware, Ruth – The Woman in Cabin 10
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Weir, Andy – The Martian
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Whitehead, Colson – The Underground Railroad
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Wingate, Lisa – Before We Were Yours
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Z
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Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief
Non-Fiction (alphabetical by author)
A
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Ackerman, Diane – The Zookeeper’s Wife
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Albom, Mitch - Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
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Ambrose, Stephen E. – Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
B
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Bates, Laura – Shakespeare Saved My Life: ten years in solitary with the Bard
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Bernstein, Harry - The Invisible Wall
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Boo, Katherine – Behind the Beautiful Forevers: [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]
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Bourdain, Anthony - Kitchen Confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly
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Bradley, James D. – Flags of Our Fathers
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Brown, Daniel James – The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Bryson, Bill – A Walk in the Woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Buck, Rinker – The Oregon Trail: a new American journey
C
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Carreyrou, John - Bad Blood: secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
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Coburn, Jennifer – We’ll Always Have Paris
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Conway, Jill Ker – The Road from Coorain: In the tradition of My Brilliant Career
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Corrigan, Kelly - The Middle Place
D
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Diangelo, Robin - White Fragility : Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
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Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
E
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Eggers, Dave - The Monk of Mokha
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Ephron, Nora – I Feel Bad about My Neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
F
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Fey, Tina – Bossypants
G
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Gladwell, Malcolm:
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Blink: the power of thinking without thinking
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The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference
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Grann, David - Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
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Hall, Ron – Same Kind of Different as Me
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Hanna-Attisha, Mona - What the Eyes Don't See: a story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city
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Harari, Yuval Noah – Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind
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J
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Janzen, Rhoda – Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: a memoir of going home
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Junger, Sebastian - The Perfect Storm : a true story of men against the sea
K
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Keefe, Patrick Radden - Say Nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
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Kimmerer, Robin Wall - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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Klobuchar, Amy – The Senator Next Door: a memoir from the heartland
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Krakauer, Jon – Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
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Lewis, Michael - The Blind Side: evolution of a game
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Lopez, Steve – The Soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
M
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McBride, James – The Color of Water: a Black man's tribute to his white mother
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McNamara, Michelle - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
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Moore, Kate – The Radium Girls: the dark story of America's shining women
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Mortenson, Greg – Three Cups of Tea: one man's mission to promote peace--one school at a time
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Noah, Trevor – Born a Crime: stories from a South African childhood
O
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Orlean, Susan – The Library Book
P
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Poitier, Sidney – The Measure of a Man: a spiritual autobiography
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Pressman, Steven – 50 Children: one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany
Q
R
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Regan, Margaret – Detained and Deported: stories of immigrant families under fire
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Roberts, Cokie – Founding Mothers: the women who raised our nation
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Roosevelt, Eleanor - Tomorrow Is Now
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Rubin, Gretchen – The Happiness Project, or why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun
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Ryan, Terry – The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less
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Schwalbe, Will – The End of Your Life Book Club
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Sedaris, David – Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Shapiro, Dani - Inheritance: a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
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Shetterly, Margot Lee – Hidden Figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
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Sixsmith, Martin – Philomena: a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
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Skloot, Rebecca – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Sokolove, Michael – Drama High: the incredible true story of a brilliant teacher, a struggling town, and the magic of theater
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Sotomayor, Sonia – My Beloved World
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Stevenson, Bryan – Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption
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Strayed, Cheryl – Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
T
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Tirado, Linda – Hand to Mouth: living in bootstrap America
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V
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Vance, J.D. – Hillbilly Elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
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Wiesel, Elie – Night
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Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns: the epic story of America's great migration
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Yousafzai, Malala – I Am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
Z