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Suggested Book Titles for Campus Community Book Project:
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Book Titles
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Author
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1.
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Trying To Buy Our Way Out of Trouble
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Lizabeth Cohen
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2.
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Grapes of Wrath, Trouble in a Promised Land, and other titles
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Louis Owens
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3.
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Choosing Naia
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Mitchell Zuckoff
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4.
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
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Marie Arana
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5.
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The Crazed
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Ha Jin
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6.
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No Title (About Iraq)
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7.
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Epitaph for a Peach
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David Mas Masumoto
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8.
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Four Seasons in Five Senses
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Davis Mas Masumoto
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9.
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Fast Food Nation
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Eric Schlosser
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10.
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Nickel and Dimed
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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11.
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Black, White and Jewish
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Rebecca Walker
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12.
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Arranged Marriage
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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13.
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The Vine of Desire
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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14.
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Character is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday
Life
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Russell W. Gough
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15.
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Bowling Alone
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Robert Putnam
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16.
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The Tortilla Curtain
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T.C. Boyle
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17.
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan
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18.
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Understanding Whiteness: Unraveling Racism-The Tools for
a Journey
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Judy Helfand & Laurie Lippin
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19.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
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20.
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Farewell To Manzanar
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
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21.
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The Testament: A Novel
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Elie Wiesel
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22.
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Parable of the Sower
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Octavia Butler
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23.
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
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Lori Arviso Alvord
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24.
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Bless Me, Ultima
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Rudolfo S. Anaya
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25.
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A Natural History of the Senses
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Diana Ackerman
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26.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me - Everything Your American History
Book Got Wrong
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James W. Loewen
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27.
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Daughters
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Paule Marshall
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28.
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The Farming of Bones
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Edwidge Danticat
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29.
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Another Country
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Mary Bary
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30.
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Invisible Man
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Ralph Ellison
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31.
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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James Weldon Johnson
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32.
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When Race Becomes Real - Black and White Writers Confront
Their Personal Histories
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Bernestine Singley
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33.
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Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss
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Mindy Weisel
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34.
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No Title (About War and/or Muslim culture)
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35.
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
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James McBride
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36.
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Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle
East Peace Process
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Edward W. Said
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37.
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Out of Place: A Memoir
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Edward W. Said
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38.
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Angels in America
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Tony Kushner
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39.
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There Are No Children Here
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Alex Kotlowitz
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40.
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Kindred
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Octavia Butler
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41.
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Cadillac Desert
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Marc Reisner
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42.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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Dee Brown
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43.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond
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44.
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The Destruction of California
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Raymond Dasmann
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45.
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Lords of the Harvest, Biotech, Big Money, and the Future
of Food
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Daniel Charles
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46.
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Spinning into Butter
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Rebecca Gilman
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47.
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The Death of Vishnu
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Manil Suni
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48.
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A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry
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49.
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The Bone People
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Keri Hulme
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50.
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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Jung Chang
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51.
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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David Guterson
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52.
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
And Other Conversations About Race
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Beverly Daniel Tatum
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53.
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
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Isabel Fonseca
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54.
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House of Sand and Fog
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Andre Dubus III
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55.
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Kissing the Virgins Mouth
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Donna Gershwin
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56.
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Veronika Decides to Die
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Paul Coehlo
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57.
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Trans-Sister Radio
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Chris Bohjalian
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58.
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Lost in Translation
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Eva Hoffman
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59.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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John Kennedy Toole
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60.
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How Did You Get to Be Mexican?: A White/Brown Man's Search
for Identity
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Kevin Johnson
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61.
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
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Hayden Herrera
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62.
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Reverence: A Forgotten Virtue
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Paul Woodruff
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63.
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Cane
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Jean Toomer
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64.
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Yell-Oh Girls
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Vickie Nam
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65.
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Who Qualifies for Rights? Homelessness, Mental Illness and
Civil Commitment
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Judith Hynn Failer
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66.
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Life of Pi
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Yann Martel
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67.
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Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
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Brady Udall
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68.
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Salt of the Mountain
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Stefano Varese
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69.
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Human Rights in the Muslim World: Constitutionalism, Fundamentalism,
and International Poligics
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Ahsan Khan
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70.
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Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family
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Neil Henry
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71.
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When the Emperor was Divine
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Julie Otsuka
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72.
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Terazin Requiem
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73.
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Plenty-coups:Chief of the Crows
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Frank B. Linderman
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74.
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Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows
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Frank B. Linderman
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75.
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The Lovely Bones: A Novel
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Alice Sebold
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76.
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
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Chris Hedges
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77.
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Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - From
the Babylonian to the Maya
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Dick Teresi
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78.
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Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict
Resolution
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Mark Juergensmeyer
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79.
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Breaking Through
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Francisco Jimenez
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80.
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
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Francisco Jimenez
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81.
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First They Killed My Father
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Loung Ung
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82.
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Rain of Gold
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Victor E. Villasenor
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83.
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The Long Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
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Sherman Alexi
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84.
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Jasmine
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Bharati Mukherjee
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85.
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Broken Cord
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Michael Dorris
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86.
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Bel Canto
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Ann Patchett
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87.
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The Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's
Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
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Sattareh Farman Farmaian
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88.
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Border Passage
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Leila Ahmed
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89.
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Among Muslims
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Kathleen Jamie
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90.
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Dive From Clausen's Pier
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Ann Packer
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91.
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A Short History of Islam
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Karen Armstrong
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92.
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Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment
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Luke Anderson
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This program is sponsored by the Campus Council on Community &
Diversity, the Office of Campus Community Relations, and the Office
of the Provost.
For more information or to inquire about being part of this program,
please contact Karen Roth, Campus Community Relations, at 752-2071
or kmroth@ucdavis.edu.
