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					<description><![CDATA[IntroductionDaniel Rosen is an ordinary hospital maintenance worker in New York City. He fixes broken cooling systems, faulty doors, and whatever else stops working during one of the worst heat emergencies the city has faced.&#160;Then Daniel discovers something he cannot repair with tools.&#160;Covenant Health has developed a system for deciding where scarce medical resources should [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Brothers Karamazov Explained Through Its Characters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if the person who committed the murder was not the only one responsible for it?&#160;A father has been murdered.&#160;One son threatened to kill him.&#160;Another secretly wished for his death.&#160;A third may have given the killer the ideas he needed.&#160;The man who committed the murder is dead, and the brother who did not commit it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Plague Explained by Top Albert Camus Scholars</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if The Plague was never meant to represent only disease?&#160;&#160;Introduction by Albert Camus&#160;Welcome.&#160;When readers finish The Plague, they often believe they have understood it.&#160;Then, years later, another crisis arrives.&#160;Suddenly the same pages seem to contain a different novel.&#160;That is both the privilege and the danger of literature.&#160;Every generation wishes to discover itself inside an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gilead Ending Explained: Can Grace Reach the Person We Judge Most?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if John Ames’s final blessing was sincere—but arrived too late to repair what his silence had cost Jack’s family?Introduction by Nick SasakiWhat does a father leave behind when he knows he will not live long enough to watch his child grow?That question sits quietly at the center of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. On its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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