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Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
by Elizabeth Samet
PS49 .U65 S36 2007 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
by Benazir Bhutto
DS389.22 .B48 A3 2008 [Main Library 4th floor]
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
E468.9 . F385 2008 [Main Library 4th floor]

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Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
by Elizabeth Armstrong
N6530 .C2 A72 2007 [Main Library 7th floor]
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The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
E169 .Z83 J33 2008 [Main Library 4th floor]
Y9538 [Main Library 1st floor Leisure]
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Fiction

Person of Interest
by Susan Choi
PS3553 .H584 P47 2008 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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Beginner's Greek
by James Collins
Y9535 [Main Library 1st floor Leisure]
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His Illegal Self
by Peter Carey
PR9619.3 .C36 H57 2008 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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A Free Life
By Ha Jin
PS3560 .I6 F74 2007 [Main Library 3rd floor]

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Fire in the Blood
by Irène Némirovsky; translated by Sandra Smith
PQ2627 .E4C4313 2007 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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