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Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me
Son, Last Sunday the host of a popular news show ask me what it meant to loose my body.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates _ We Were Eight Years in Power:
This story began, as all writing must, in failure.
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J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
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Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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Robert Cormier _ The Chocolate War
They murdered him.
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James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time
I've begun this letter five times and torn it up five times.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys
Even in death the boys were trouble.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no.
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Louis Sachar _ Holes
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
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Betty Smith _ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.
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