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1/5
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Work on it.
2/5
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1-2 bright spots.
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4/5
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1-2 spots that need work
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Must-read.
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Life becomes far more difficult for teenaged, book-devouring Asa after her parents--an African-American father and his white Jewish wife--inherit a large farm in North Carolina,...
GLORY DAYS is a novel about a sportscaster who goes back to his hometown for his silver-anniversary high-school reunion and confronts the reality of racism...
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