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Song of a Captive Bird*

by Jasmin Darznik

~Forugh Farrokhzad:

Iranian poet in mid-20th

century

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by Margaret Atwood

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by John Connolly

~Stan Laurel: Golden

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The Girls in the Picture*

by Melanie Benjamin

~Hollywood stars Frances

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The Paris Wife*

by Paula McLain

~Ernest Hemingway:

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Paths of Glory*

by Jeffrey Archer

~George Mallory:

Climbed Mt. Everest

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