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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson, 2003

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson, 2003

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer, 19

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Amanda Lee, 1848

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari, 2011

Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover, 2018

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins, 2001

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank, 1913

Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain, 2012

Inventing Reality

Michael Parenti, 1993

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie, 1913

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk, 2014

A Promised Land

Barack Obama, 2020

Cosmos

Carl Sagan, 1980

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy, 2022

Night

Elie Wiesel, 1955

Ishmael

Daniel Quinn, 1992

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker, 2017

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins, 1976

A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

Naji al-Ali, 2009

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2014

So You Want to Talk about Race

Ijeoma Oluo, 2018

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, 2012

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport, 2024

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World

Peter Wohlleben, 2015

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