Recommended Reading

Books that we suggest reading, further detailing some of the topics that we often cover.

Updated January 2026.

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TOPICS

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1. Intersexual Dynamics, Red Pill Praxeology and Dating.
2. Personal Prosperity (Health, Wealth and Mindset).
3. Culture War studies (involving Intersectional Identity Politics, Cultural Marxism, Postmodernism and Critical Theory analysis).
4. Broader historical examinations of emancipation, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
5. Manipulation by mainstream media, social media and other multimedia.
6. Government shenanigans, rabbit-holes and hot-potato topics.
7. Covid-19. 
8. Fiction.
9. Christianity,  Religious Studies and Perspectives

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1. Intersexual Dynamics, Red Pill Praxeology and Dating:

 

• The Rational Male, by Rollo Tomassi

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• The Rational Male: Vol. II – Preventative Medicine, by Rollo Tomassi

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• The Rational Male: Vol. III – Positive Masculinity, by Rollo Tomassi

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• The Rational Male: Vol. IV – Religion, by Rollo Tomassi

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• The Rational Male: Vol V – The Players Handbook: A Red Pill Guide to Game, by Rollo Tomassi

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• The Rational Male: Vol VI – Reignite: A Guide to Self-Reinvention, by Rollo Tomassi

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• The Unplugged Alpha: The No Bullsh*t Guide To Winning With Women & Life, By Richard Cooper

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• Fuccfiles: Lessons From a Decade of Women, by Rian Stone

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• The Art of Seduction, by Robert Greene

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• Mating in Captivity: How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships, by Esther Perel

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2. Personal Prosperity (Health, Wealth and Mindset):

 

• Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life, by Donald J Trump. 

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• Trump: The Art of the Deal, by Donald J Trump. 

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• 12 Rules For Life, by Jordan Peterson

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• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson

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• Iron John: Men and Masculinity, by Robert Bly

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• King: The IV Layer Approach to Becoming the Strongest Version of Yourself, by Elliott Hulse

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• Make Men Strong Again: The 12 Pillars of Traditional Masculinity, by Elliott Hulse.

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• Strong Advice: Zuby’s Guide to Fitness for Everybody, by Zuby

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• The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, by Arnold Schwarzenegger

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• Sly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live your Dream, by Sylvester Stallone.

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• Solitary Fitness, by Charles Bronson

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• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, by Douglas Gillette and Robert L. Moore

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• Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor, by Matthew McConaughey

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• Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile, by Anthony G. Jay

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• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene

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• The 33 Strategies of War, by Robert Greene

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• The 50th Law, by Robert Greene and 50 Cent

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• The Laws of Human Nature, by Robert Greene. 

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• The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy

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• The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse, by Fernando ‘Ferfal’ Aguirre

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• Street Survival Skills: Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Modern Survival, by Aguirre, Fernando “Ferfal” 

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• Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver: Protect Your Financial Future, by Mike Maloney

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• The Only Bitcoin Investing Book You’ll Ever Need: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to the Cryptocurrency Which Is Changing the World and Your Finances in 2021 & Beyond

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• Bitcoin: The Future of Money?, by Dominic Frisby

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• A Beginner’s Guide To Bitcoin, by Matthew R. Kratter

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3. Culture War studies (involving Intersectional Identity Politics, Cultural Marxism, Postmodernism and Critical Theory analysis):

 

• The Counterweight Handbook: Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice Ideology – at Work, in Schools and Beyond, by Helen Pluckrose

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• Lessons in Courage: How I Fought Back Against Cancel Culture and Won, by Nick Buckley

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• Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles

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• Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by Andy Ngo

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• Free Speech And Why It Matters, by Andrew Doyle

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• The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World by Andrew Doyle

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• THE END OF WOKE: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution, by Andrew Doyle.

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• Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, by Abigail Shrier

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• Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult, by Maria Keffler

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• When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, by Ryan T. Anderson

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• Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, by Kathleen Stock

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• Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, by Helen Joyce

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• What Is a Woman?: One Man’s Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation, by Matt Walsh

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• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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• Unconscious Bias Training: Social Lubricant or Snake Oil? (Free Speech Union Brief), by Carrie Clark

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• Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape From The Democrat Plantation, by Candace Owens

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• The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America, by Shelby Steele

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• Islamophilia: A Very Metropolitan Malady, by Douglas Murray

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• The Madness of Crowds, by Douglas Murray (Now in an expanded 2020 edition)

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• The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason, by Douglas Murray

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• Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity – and Why This Harms Everybody, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

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• Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in the Age of Unreason, by Dave Rubin

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• Moralitis: A Cultural Virus, by Niall McCrae and Robert Oulds

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• The Feminist Lie, by Bob Lewis

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• What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism, by Ella Whelan

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• Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and why it Matters Today, by Christina Hoff Sommers

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• The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men  by Christina Hoff Sommers

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• Dangerous, by Milo Yiannopoulos

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• Manifesto – Free Speech,  Real Democracy and Peaceful Disobedience, by Peter McLoughlin and Tommy Robinson. 

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• Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation, by Lauren Southern

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• No Safe Spaces, by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph

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• Black Lies Matter, by Taleeb Starkes

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• The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent, by Ben Shapiro

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• Bullies: How The Left’s Culture Of Fear And Intimidation Silences Americans, by Ben Shapiro

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• Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage – An Academic Memoir, by Michael Rectenwald

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• A Politically Correct Dictionary and Guide, by Keith Donnelly

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• Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, by Titania McGrath

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• My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism, by Titania McGrath

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• Woke Fragility (a parody!): Bringing Moderates to Heel (The Great Wokesplosion), by ‘The Tired Moderate’

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• The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness: How To Take Your Wokeness to the Next Level by Canceling Friends, Breaking Windows, and Burning It All to the Ground (Babylon Bee Guides), by The Babylon Bee

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4.Broader historical examinations of emancipation, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

 

• The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois

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• Life After the State: Why We Don’t Need Government, by Dominic Frisby

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• The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, by Ben Shapiro

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• The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe, by Václav Havel

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• The Establishment Is Dead: The Rise and Election of Donald Trump, by Ben Shapiro

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• Infidel: My Life, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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• Nomad: From Islam to America – A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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• Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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• Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright

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• On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill

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• Save America by Donald J Trump.Amazon link below:

 

• The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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• Fascism and Democracy, by George Orwell

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5. Manipulation by mainstream media, social media and other multimedia:

 

• Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, by Ben Shapiro

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• The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere, by Wilson Bryan Key

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• Hate Inc. by Matt Taibbi

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• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier

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6. Government shenanigans, rabbit-holes and hot-potato topics:

 

• Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation, by Eric Trump.

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• The Deep State Encyclopedia: Exposing the Cabal’s Playbook by Reallygraceful, Grace

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• The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, by Alex Jones

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• None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen and Larry Abraham

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• The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska, by John DeCamp

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• The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11, by David Ray Griffin

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• The Murder of Princess Diana, by Noel Botham

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• Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 and the Shayler Affair, by Annie Machon

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• The Privacy Mission: Achieving Ethical Data for Our Lives Online, by Annie Machon

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• Order out of Chaos: Elite Sponsored Terrorism & the NEW World Order , by Paul Joseph Watson

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• Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, by David S. Lifton

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• CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, by Dan Piepenbring and Tom O’Neill

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• Cult and Occult, by Francis King.

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• Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future, by Dominic Frisby

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• Enemy of the State, by Tommy Robinson

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• Silenced, by Tommy Robinson. 

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7. COVID-19:

 

• The Great Reset: And the War for the World by Alex Jones

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• When China Sneezes: From the Wuhan Lockdown to the Global Politico-Eonomic Implications, Edited by Cynthia McKinney

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• Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin

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• A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the Covid-19 Pandemic, by Laura Dodsworth

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• The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) by  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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8. Fiction:

 

• Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell

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• George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’: The Graphic Novel, illustration by Fido Nesti

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• Animal Farm, by George Orwell

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• George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Odyr

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• The Emperor’s New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen

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• MAUS, by Art Spiegelman.

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• Johnny the Walrus, by Matt Walsh

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9. Christianity, Religious Studies and Perspectives

 

• NLT Every Man’s Bible, Large Print, Black/Onyx, Indexed: New Living Translation,

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• God Bless The USA Bible (Endorsed by President Trump)

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• The Liber Christo Method: A Field Manual for Spiritual Combat by Dan Schneider PhD.

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• Dominion: The Nature of Diabolic Warfare : by Fr. Chad A Ripperger.

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• Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity, by Fr. Chad Ripperger PhD.

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• Tiny Bibles — Buy the Smallest Printed Bible on the Market

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• What Does the Bible Teach about Lust?: A Short Book on Desire (Sexuality And Identity) by Gavin Peacock, Owen Strachan

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• The Christians, by Bamber Gascoigne

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• Scenes from the Bible: Illustrated by Gustave Doré (Arcturus Epic Classics), by Doré, Gustave

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