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Maven Books

Reviews about historical, literary, classic, and other fiction.  Miscellaneous book things.

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Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
Complete Short Stories (Virago Modern Classics)
Joanna Kingham, Elizabeth Taylor

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"Part of being a student is learning how to advocate for your beliefs by writing and speaking about them calmly and impersonally. This includes intensely personal matters like race, religion, sex, love, death and evil. At the very least, thinking adults must be able to say why they don’t believe in discussing their personal opinions on those topics. Preventing students from reading about issues that make them uncomfortable only deepens their discomfort when they are forced to face those issues."