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Solzhenitsyn effectively described the prison and work camp system that incarcerated millions of Russians to suppress the population and obtain free labor. He covers arrest and interrogation, initial imprisonment, the brutality of camp life, various escape attempts, the addition of women and children, and release and exile. The abridged version has plenty of information on the subject (21 hours vs 60+ listening hours for the 3 volume series)

Ten yo Beatrice has just lost her best friend, her grandma called Glad. She‘s alone and full of sadness battling loss and desolation, and abandonment by her father. Her best friends are a team of 8 cats who follow her everywhere. Then Caleb moves to town…

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True story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native pro baseball players to face off in a World Series.

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John Bunyan wrote this while imprisoned during the 1600s for preaching Christianity in public. The protagonist Christian leaves the City of Destruction on his journey to the Celestial City, encountering such spiritual struggles as the Slough of Despond and the River of Death, meeting such characters as Evangelist, Discretion, Giant Despair and many more.
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Pretty cute retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, with a good side dish of spice!

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“You‘re the Doc, Doc.”

A fun trip into the past, present and future with Fox as narrator. They never dreamed it would be the huge hit that it was.

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Fun & funny! Two (platonic rivals) PhDs tie the knot to enhance their chances for a partner-hire faculty position. If you enjoy Abby Jimenez, you‘ll like it.

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“God has great plans for you. But He cannot give you greater than what you desire for yourself.”

This is the story of Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961), who basically kicked off the glorious Harlem Renaissance and helped such writers as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen and more. She was also a magazine editor, a published novelist, and lover of W.E.B. DuBois of the NAACP.

Only about the last 30-40 minutes were set at Thanksgiving, so I feel like I was mislead by the title! Tanzy runs a no-kill dog shelter on a shoestring budget, and when new guy Jake comes to town, she falls for him even though there‘s something mysterious about him.

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What can I say? Well, it was unique. The book satirizes modern times to include politics, religion, and technology. It moves at a breakneck pace, which I think helps cover some of its flaws. Like, is it really that deep? Probably not. I‘ve seen a lot of views that this is like a Philosophy 100 class (which I loathed). I‘ve also read some opinions that this was written by AI…who knows? But it kept my attention. 3/5, maybe 3.5? I don‘t know! 😂