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Women in a River Landscape (Heinrich Böll) A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies
Hammerklavier (Yasmina Reza) - a pointillist rumination on music, mortality and memory
*The Last Imaginary Place (Robert McGhee) A Human History of the Arctic World
Proust and the Squid (Maryanne Wolf) The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Faded Portraits (E. Breton de Nijs) A Novel of the Indies
Dangerous Sanctuaries (Sarah Kenyon Lischer) Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid

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