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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.14 avg rating — 835,128 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 476,045 ratings
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
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3.79 avg rating — 763 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
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4.08 avg rating — 74,711 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
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4.18 avg rating — 102,422 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,342,821 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 168,968 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,023,184 ratings
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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4.43 avg rating — 11,887 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.25 avg rating — 91,389 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
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4.25 avg rating — 72,443 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.31 avg rating — 817 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 227,559 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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4.04 avg rating — 8,882 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.02 avg rating — 38,424 ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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4.72 avg rating — 52,122 ratings
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
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4.12 avg rating — 18,493 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 56,743 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.03 avg rating — 22,879 ratings
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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4.26 avg rating — 16,770 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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4.05 avg rating — 23,310 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 58,430 ratings
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
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3.82 avg rating — 14,844 ratings
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The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion
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4.08 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63
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3.87 avg rating — 942 ratings
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
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4.27 avg rating — 12,242 ratings
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New Life for Archaeological Collections (Society for Historical Archaeology Series in Material Culture)
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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4.13 avg rating — 23,153 ratings
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D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
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4.03 avg rating — 15,302 ratings
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This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
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3.80 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
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4.08 avg rating — 811 ratings
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The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes (When the Land Meets the Sea, 2)
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
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4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
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4.21 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel
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3.91 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Cuba: My Revolution
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3.56 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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3.77 avg rating — 27,618 ratings
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The Terra Incognita Reader: Early Writings from the Great Smoky Mountains
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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To My Best Girl: Courage, Honor, and Love in the Civil War: The Inspiring Life Stories of Rufus Dawes and Mary Gates
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4.47 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Guardian Angel
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4.38 avg rating — 235 ratings
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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4.12 avg rating — 16,333 ratings
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Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me
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3.70 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights
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4.19 avg rating — 408 ratings
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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
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3.88 avg rating — 2,389 ratings
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The Feather Thief
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4.01 avg rating — 38,704 ratings
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Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography
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3.36 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Back in the Game: One Gunman, Countless Heroes, and the Fight for My Life
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4.54 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
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3.90 avg rating — 757 ratings
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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4.23 avg rating — 6,290 ratings
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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3.86 avg rating — 74,373 ratings
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
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3.95 avg rating — 12,984 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
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4.03 avg rating — 4,341 ratings
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The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
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4.06 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.16 avg rating — 24,802 ratings
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
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4.43 avg rating — 106,480 ratings
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The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
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3.99 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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4.53 avg rating — 12,788 ratings
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The Seven Culinary Wonders of the World: A History of Honey, Salt, Chile, Pork, Rice, Cacao, and Tomato
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3.44 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.18 avg rating — 87,908 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 117,262 ratings
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
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4.04 avg rating — 2,242 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.05 avg rating — 89,280 ratings
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
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4.20 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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4.16 avg rating — 53,186 ratings
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The Best We Could Do
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4.35 avg rating — 41,873 ratings
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Antisemitism: Here and Now
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4.08 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 373,884 ratings
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Janesville: An American Story
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4.09 avg rating — 7,799 ratings
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
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4.42 avg rating — 212 ratings
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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4.21 avg rating — 47,578 ratings
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Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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4.21 avg rating — 31,809 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 123,661 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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4.08 avg rating — 6,805 ratings
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
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4.04 avg rating — 5,374 ratings
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Carpathia
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3.99 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
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4.13 avg rating — 7,320 ratings
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November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
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4.05 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
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3.99 avg rating — 904 ratings
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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3.85 avg rating — 17,886 ratings
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
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4.07 avg rating — 5,470 ratings
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
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4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power
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4.16 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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3.91 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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4.12 avg rating — 40,779 ratings
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
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3.43 avg rating — 8,559 ratings
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A Sailor's Story (Dover Graphic Novels)
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4.11 avg rating — 69 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 100,596 ratings
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Crown of Blood
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4.01 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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Ship of Dreams
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4.03 avg rating — 1,995 ratings
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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4.15 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
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3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll
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4.30 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
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Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe
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4.61 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
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4.27 avg rating — 6,358 ratings
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
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4.20 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
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4.33 avg rating — 4,694 ratings
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
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4.44 avg rating — 115,272 ratings
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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4.42 avg rating — 20,496 ratings
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
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3.63 avg rating — 630 ratings
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