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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 752,443 ratings
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Seasons: Desert Sketches
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4.41 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.51 avg rating — 168,443 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,731 ratings
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
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4.15 avg rating — 6,499 ratings
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American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power
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3.58 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
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3.91 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.32 avg rating — 29,346 ratings
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Understanding Movies
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3.85 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Deconstructing Organized Crime: An Historical and Theoretical Study
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers
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3.98 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Tetris: The Games People Play
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3.80 avg rating — 3,504 ratings
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She of the Mountains
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4.06 avg rating — 3,393 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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4.30 avg rating — 46,228 ratings
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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
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3.78 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
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3.87 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 119,005 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 289,338 ratings
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
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4.28 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 263,935 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 19,706 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.52 avg rating — 28,465 ratings
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American Indian Myths and Legends
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4.08 avg rating — 5,398 ratings
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
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4.12 avg rating — 4,532 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 — 66,358 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 101,501 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 94,536 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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3.71 avg rating — 4,304 ratings
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Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
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4.15 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
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4.02 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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3.89 avg rating — 11,935 ratings
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
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4.13 avg rating — 26,119 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,238 ratings
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Overview: A New Perspective of Earth
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4.62 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
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4.05 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,597 ratings
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The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
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4.26 avg rating — 275 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 119,232 ratings
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Lighting the World: Transforming our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone
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3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
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4.08 avg rating — 680 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
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4.36 avg rating — 119,056 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.51 avg rating — 29,673 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 112,735 ratings
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Punishment and Inequality in America
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4.09 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
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4.32 avg rating — 8,841 ratings
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Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
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4.02 avg rating — 175 ratings
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How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
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4.01 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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4.34 avg rating — 27,033 ratings
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
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4.26 avg rating — 3,653 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 20,193 ratings
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
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4.08 avg rating — 462 ratings
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The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
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3.95 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment
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4.46 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Mystic Approaches
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4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
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4.10 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,580 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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4.16 avg rating — 171,515 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 45,415 ratings
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
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4.07 avg rating — 843 ratings
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
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3.77 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
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3.97 avg rating — 4,595 ratings
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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
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4.06 avg rating — 975 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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3.90 avg rating — 84,219 ratings
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The California Field Atlas
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4.46 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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4.31 avg rating — 98,148 ratings
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Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
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4.14 avg rating — 1,969 ratings
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The Lost Words
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4.48 avg rating — 6,637 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Glaciers
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3.76 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing
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4.25 avg rating — 2,175 ratings
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The Undocumented Americans
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4.37 avg rating — 26,532 ratings
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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4.19 avg rating — 43,691 ratings
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To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
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3.95 avg rating — 23,008 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 10,726 ratings
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Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
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4.10 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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4.07 avg rating — 4,040 ratings
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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3.90 avg rating — 1,514 ratings
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Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare
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3.97 avg rating — 1,675 ratings
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Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 494 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 87,905 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,193 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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4.05 avg rating — 4,389 ratings
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Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
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4.10 avg rating — 2,499 ratings
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A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
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4.07 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
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4.20 avg rating — 2,478 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 59,111 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,136 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.05 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
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The Living Mountain
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4.27 avg rating — 8,909 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.23 avg rating — 20,828 ratings
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The Solace of Open Spaces
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4.11 avg rating — 7,381 ratings
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This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes
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4.02 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
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3.93 avg rating — 17,472 ratings
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A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
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3.88 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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3.81 avg rating — 51,499 ratings
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I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
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4.32 avg rating — 7,545 ratings
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
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3.95 avg rating — 13,982 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 861,514 ratings
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
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4.43 avg rating — 100,656 ratings
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)
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4.25 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story of the Refugee Crisis
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4.28 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
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