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Subject: 2016 Challenge Begins - Lists here!
Date Posted: 1/5/2016 10:23 AM ET
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A.  Check it out:  Read books from 4 different categories - as many as you wish. B.  Expand your horizons:  Read books from 8 different categories C.  Spread your wings:  Read books from 12 categories - For those who love NF 1. Anthropology (Physical, Cultural, Linguistic or Archaeology)  Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup, 1/2/2016, 5 stars.  This is a tremendous read that will long stay with me.  Solomon was born and raised as a free man, had a wife and children, and was a respected man in his community.  However, that all changed in a heartbeat when he was kidnapped and sold to plantation owners as a slave.  His poignant memories were so accurate and so heart wrenching to this reader that I could harly imagine the life he must have lived during that period.  It' more...
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I'll be going for all 12 categories. 1.  Anthropology (Physical, Cultural, Linguistic or Archaeology) - Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northrup -&# more...
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Date Posted: 1/5/2016 4:06 PM ET
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A.  Check it out:  Read books from 4 different categories - as many as you wish. B.  Expand your horizons:  Read books from 8 different categories TA-DA! Finished 8! C.  Spread your wings:  Read books from 12 categories - For those who love NF 1. Anthropology (Physical, Cultural, Linguistic or Archaeol more...
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A.  Check it out:  Read books from 4 different categories - as many as you wish. B.  Expand your horizons:  Read books from 8 different categories C.  Spread your wings:  Rea more...
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1. Anthropology (Physical, Cultural, Linguistic or Archaeology) 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup Finish date: 1/14 **** True narrative of a free Black man who was drugged and sold into slavery in 1841. Should be required reading in American history courses. Difficult to read more...
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