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'Sex and the Citadel,' by Shereen El Feki
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Kids book clubs take page from adults
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Joshua Edwards - looking at American privilege
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San Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, May 26
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'The End of San Francisco'
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Roundup of children's books
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'Paper: An Elegy,' by Ian Sansom
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'Robert Oppenheimer,' by Ray Monk
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'And the Mountains Echoed,' by Khaled Hosseini
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'Is This Tomorrow,' by Caroline Leavitt
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'A Delicate Truth,' by John le Carré
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'The Woman Upstairs,' by Claire Messud
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