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A guide by K. Carlisle (Austin, Texas)
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Read Adam Hochschild's phenomenal account of Belgium's colonization of the Congo
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

This book on a poor community's struggle for water rights is both hilarious and provocative
The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel

Desert Solitaire

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classics)

The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

The God of Small Things

A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

I Saw Ramallah

Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy

The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition

Fugitive Days: A Memoir

No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Walden

Love in the Time of Cholera

Rules for Radicals

Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy : Manual for Activists

The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)

Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town

The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982

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Qualifications: Former legislative aide, college grad, wanna-be writer
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