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Currently readingA Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight by Jules Feiffer

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Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church by Chrissy Stroop

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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty

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Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

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It's Our Time: Honouring the African Nova Scotian Communities of East Preston, North Preston, Lake Loon/Cherry Brook by Wanda Taylor

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Inverting The Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics by Jonathan Wilson

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