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 Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works
Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, her two story collections, essays, and more
 Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s
The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik
 Thomas Paine: Collected Writings
Common Sense, The Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, articles, letters, and more
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