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  • The Life of Our Lord

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  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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    Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is the story of Elphaba, the title character and villain of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. It places the Witch in a new context and uses her life to explore the economic, ethical, and cultural world of Oz in the period before Dorothy's arrival from Earth. Elphaba's life is full of struggles and difficulties as she wrestles with the injustice of Oz. Eventually her life is taken in an accident caused by Dorothy.

  • Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

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    Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo is the journal of the young Bosnian girl Zlata Filipovic. Her journals chronicle her experiences during the Bosnian War between 1991 and 1993. Political tensions, the different strains placed on children and adults, and the cruelties inflicted on the Bosnian populace make up the bulk of Zlata's observations. Her reflections on daily life during the war, and on her family's struggle to survive, are poignant and mature.

  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about Ivan Denisovich, a falsely-convicted prisoner serving a ten-year sentence in the gulag, a forced labor camp. The book recounts the horrible conditions suffered by gulag prisoners: harsh punishments, extreme cold, lack of proper clothing, lack of food, brutal physical labor and sickness. Though Ivan Denisovich wakes up sick and is punished, then sent off to work, he survives the day and even goes to bed feeling OK.

  • The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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    The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir by the former slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. The work chronicles Douglass's life, beginning with his fractured family through his freedom. Douglass was bought and sold as a slave numerous times throughout his life, being beaten and humiliated by his owners. Douglass despised slavery and often resisted his mistreatment, helped other slaves to become literate and eventually escaped to the North. The memoir was widely read and became influential in the abolitionist movement.

  • A Medieval Life

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    A Medieval Life is the historical but fictionalized story of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant servant living and working in an English manor house in the fourteenth century. The novel takes a meticulously-researched look at the daily routines of peasants, the conditions in which they lived, and the divisions between those who served nobility and those who worked the land. Through Cecelia the narrative attempts a comprehensive look at the lives of the lower classes in England at the time.

  • Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

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    Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman is a book by anthropologist Marjorie Shostak, published in 1981. From 1969 to 1971, Marjorie Shostak conducted field work in southwest Africa studying the !Kung San people, a hunter-gather society in the Kalahari desert. The book alternates between Shostak's examinations and the life story told by one woman, "Nisa." Shostak argues that because of women's role in food production, they enjoy greater autonomy and social status than women in many Western societies.

  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a novel that chronicles the life of Oscar Wao, a young Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey and his family. Oscar dreams of finding love and becoming a famous author of fantasy novels, but in his day-to-day life must deal with problems like a family curse and a runaway sister, Lola. Featuring sections focusing not only on Oscar but also on his sister Lola, his mother Hypatia, and his grandfather Abelard, the novel serves as an exploration of Dominican identity and oppression.

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