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Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
George Orwell's Animal Farm in a 140-page Signet Classics mass market paperback, published by Signet in 1996.
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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery, published by Thought Catalog.
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)
A two-book set pairing Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion from the Hyperion Cantos.
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Editor’s PickBecoming by Michelle Obama (Audiobook)
Michelle Obama reads her own memoir — the definitive political autobiography on audio
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