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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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by Buchi Emecheta
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The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
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"I Have a Dream" Speech
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
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by George Orwell
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by William Shakespeare
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Thank You, M'am
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The Father
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The Man He Killed
by Thomas Hardy
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The Stolen Party
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
by Laila Lalami
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All Summer in a Day
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A Sound of Thunder
by Ray Bradbury
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Anarchy and the Struggle for Power
by John Mearsheimer
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Flags in the Dust
by William Faulkner
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
by Flannery O’Connor
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by William Shakespeare
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The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents
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Marigolds
by Eugenia Collier
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The Yellow House
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The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
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"Atlanta Compromise" Speech
by Booker T. Washington
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by William Shakespeare
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"Cross of Gold" Speech
by William Jennings Bryan
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Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
by Ned Vizzini
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
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Blood Brothers
by Willy Russell
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
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The Thief of Always
by Clive Barker
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Storm of Steel
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Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
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Children of the Dust Bowl
by Jerry Stanley
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Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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An American Plague
by Jim Murphy
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Monster
by Walter Dean Myers
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
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Speech to the Virginia Convention
by Patrick Henry
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by J. D. Salinger
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening
by Charlotte Smith
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by Jack London
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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The Most Dangerous Game
by Richard Edward Connell
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Educated
by Tara Westover
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
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The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by Thomas Gray
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Lakota Woman
by Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes
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The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
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Breathing Underwater
by Alex Flinn
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Exclusion and Embrace
by Miroslav Volf
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The Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
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Everyday Use
by Alice Walker
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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Internment
by Samira Ahmed
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
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!Click Song
by John A. Williams
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by William Butler Yeats
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by Samantha Power
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"A Word made Flesh is seldom"
by Emily Dickinson
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by Myra MacPherson
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by Maya Angelou
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"An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician"
by Robert Browning
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"Arsenal of Democracy"
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"Atlanta Compromise" Speech
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"Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause"
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"C"
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"Coming Out" as a Literay Theme
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by Menno Simons
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"Cross of Gold" Speech
by William Jennings Bryan
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by William M. Tuttle Jr.
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"Death Fugue"
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by Langston Hughes
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"Fools Say"
by Nathalie Sarraute
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by Robert Lowell
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"Fourteen Points" Speech
by Woodrow Wilson
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"Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
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"G" Is for Gumshoe
by Sue Grafton
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"H" Is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
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"Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666"
by Anne Dudley
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"I Am Who I Am"
by Kathlyn Gay
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"I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges!"
by Luis Valdez
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"I Have a Dream" Speech
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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"I" Is for Innocent
by Sue Grafton
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"I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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"If Time Is Money, No Wonder I'm Not Rich"
by Mary L. Sprouse
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by Richard Crashaw
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by Robert Metz, George Stasen
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by Sue Grafton
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"Negro President"
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by Seamus Heaney
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by Ralph Leighton
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by Unknown
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by Joseph Bottum
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"The Four Freedoms"
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by Seymour M. Hersh
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by David Mamet
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"Three Versions of Judas"
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by David Herbert Donald
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by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
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by Meryl Hyman
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"Yes" and "No"
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by Robert A. Heinlein
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by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Schaefer
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by John Ford
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(Thomas) Anthony Kerrigan
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(William) Daryl Hine
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10 January 1934
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100 Details from Pictures in the National Gallery
by Kenneth Clark
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by Anne Roiphe
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by Charles C. Mann
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1776
by David McCullough
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1777
by John S. Pancake
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18 West 11th Street
by James Merrill
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1848
by Mike Rapport
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1876
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1887
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1914
by Wilfred Owen
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1916
by Morgan Llywelyn
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1919
by William Klingaman
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1929
by W. H. Auden
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1929
by Warren Sloat
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1933
by Mavis de Trafford Young
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1934
by Alberto Moravia
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1943
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1945
by John Lukacs
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1948
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1955
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