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And an Acclaimed Thriller Set in a New England Boarding School
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A Memoir Filled with Marginalization, Humiliation, and Criminalization
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A Family Struggles with Poverty, Jim Crow — and the War on Drugs
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And Jill Lepore’s Fine History of the United States, from Columbus to Trump
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And Why She is Drawn to the Idea of "Appalachian Fatalism"
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Changing Kids' Environments, in School and Out, Can Improve their Outcomes
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