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Viola and Wilmur have been waiting for their parents for fifteen boring years in the colorless town of Caveat

Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially

when a missed assignment on “ancestral history” sends Chris off the football team and into the library

a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer

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