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      <title><![CDATA[The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush, Larry Sloman]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush, Larry Sloman]]></description>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman]]></description>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker]]></description>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Moby-Dick by Herman Melville]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville]]></description>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Fed the World by Leon Hesser]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: The Man Who Fed the World by Leon Hesser]]></description>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[The Bible by Various]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: The Bible by Various]]></description>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition] by Yuval Noah Harari]]></title>
      <link>https://bookchain.to/books/sapiens-tenth-anniversary-edition</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:16:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition] by Yuval Noah Harari]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA["Erudite, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the schutztruppe askari, the Germans' colonial troops; after years at war, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the schutztruppe, at the right hand of an officer whose zeal and control have ensured his protection but marked him for life. He does not have words for how the war ended for him, in a haze of blood. Returning to the village ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A "recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a struggle between old power hierarchies and new social networks"--Dust jacket.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The War on Heresy by R. I. Moore]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: The War on Heresy by R. I. Moore]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey]]></description>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Disgrace by J M Coetzee]]></title>
      <link>https://bookchain.to/books/disgrace</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shak]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout]]></title>
      <link>https://bookchain.to/books/tell-me-everything</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Open City by Teju Cole]]></title>
      <link>https://bookchain.to/books/open-city</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Poverty, by America by Dion Graham (narrator) & Matthew Desmond]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: Poverty, by America by Dion Graham (narrator) & Matthew Desmond]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas R. Hofstadter]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Not Merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry - but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.

Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's ballades, Nabokov's es]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pyongyang by Guy Delisle]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A Westerner's visit into North Korea, told in the form of a graphic novel. Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortresslike country. While living in the nation's capital for two months on a work visa for a French film animation company, Delisle observed what he was allowed to see of the ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier's story . . .The bestselling novelist of ancient warfare returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 b.c.In a story that might have been ripped from today's combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield brings to life the confrontation between an invading Western army and fierce Eastern warriors determined at all co]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L Eisenstein]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Recommended book: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L Eisenstein]]></description>
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