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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
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Thomas Boyd: Through the Wheat (LOA eBook Classic)
Norman Mailer: The Sixties (boxed set)
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment LOA N°307

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