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The Five People You Meet in Heaven<\/a>, by Mitch Albom
The Life of Pi<\/a>, by Yann Martel
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/a>, by Harriet Jacobs
The Singularity Is Near<\/a>, by Ray Kurzweil
Paradise Lost<\/a>, by John Milton<\/p>\n

Michael Battle<\/span> is Vice President, Associate Dean of Academic Studies, and Associate Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of The Church Enslaved: A Spirituality of Racial Reconciliation<\/em><\/a>, co-written with Tony Campolo.<\/p>\n

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