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• Capital punishment from an insider perspective
• Books for law lovers, fairness fighters, and true crime connoisseurs
• South Louisiana culture

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• Black family life in America
• For growing up and finding your voice
• Massive modern and contemporary novels
• Thrillers and mysteries inhabited by history
• Nonfiction featuring amazing flying things
• Fiction that is more hysterical than historical

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