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"Moneyball is truly an extraordinary book for any sports fan, number-lover, and anyone who likes an underdog story. The novel follows Billy Beane, who takes over the Oakland Athletics - a baseball franchise known for being historically below-averag..."
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"1984 by George Orwell introduces a dystopian society - one in which the government, or the tyrant “Big Brother” has complete authority. There are monitors in every room that record one’s actions and speakers to record what they are saying so the g..."
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"We all know the tech genius, innovator, and business guru that is Steve Jobs, but what is the story behind his immense success? In Steve Jobs, written by one of the most prestigious biographers of our lifetime, Walter Isaacson, the life of the for..."
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"In this play, the playwright Sophocles gives us commentary about fate in ancient Greek culture. The main character in the story, Oedipus, has a fate - that he will kill his father (king of Thebes), and marry his mother, the queen. As his parents h..."
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"The 1971 novella Grendel, by John Gardner, is an honest reflection of humans’ lives today, even though the story is told in the perspective of a cruel monster. In the story, we are introduced to Grendel, the antagonist of Danish hero Beowulf, in a..."
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