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Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
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4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Banks
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4.28 avg rating — 539 ratings
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You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico
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3.92 avg rating — 572 ratings
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You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
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4.32 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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3.59 avg rating — 5,992 ratings
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Francis Bacon: Revelations
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4.44 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Themistocles: The Powerbroker of Athens
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4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
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4.42 avg rating — 21,942 ratings
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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3.84 avg rating — 19,623 ratings
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The Beauty of Living Twice
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3.69 avg rating — 7,139 ratings
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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4.24 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers
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3.83 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
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3.80 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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4.35 avg rating — 168,634 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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4.28 avg rating — 40,490 ratings
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Pessoa: A Biography
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4.53 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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4.10 avg rating — 4,068 ratings
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
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3.92 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence
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3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil
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3.74 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess
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4.04 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Being Ram Dass
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4.58 avg rating — 1,669 ratings
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
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3.88 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography
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4.26 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Kate Kelly
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3.66 avg rating — 185 ratings
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On the House: A Washington Memoir
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3.91 avg rating — 5,235 ratings
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
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4.09 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
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4.14 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
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4.57 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
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The Duke: 100 Chapters in the Life of Prince Philip
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4.14 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
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4.30 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
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3.65 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Dracul – Of the Father: The Untold Story of Vlad Dracul
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
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4.08 avg rating — 8,791 ratings
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The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
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3.99 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
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Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome
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3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling
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4.05 avg rating — 196 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
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4.18 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43
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4.36 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
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3.87 avg rating — 445 ratings
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
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3.74 avg rating — 416 ratings
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William III: From Prince of Orange to King of England
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
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3.85 avg rating — 683 ratings
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
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4.34 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
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4.27 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women's Equality in Minnesota
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy
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4.25 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Winged Bull: The Extraordinary Life of Henry Layard, the Adventurer Who Discovered the Lost City of Nineveh
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3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Life Of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943
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4.35 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir
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4.55 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
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The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border
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3.78 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
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3.85 avg rating — 3,802 ratings
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Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,240 ratings
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Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
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3.86 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Mike Nichols: A Life
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4.48 avg rating — 3,409 ratings
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We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends
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3.69 avg rating — 995 ratings
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The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
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3.64 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
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3.90 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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Unfinished
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3.68 avg rating — 10,450 ratings
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Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna
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3.50 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist
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3.63 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
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4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Princess Spy
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3.73 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
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The Librarian: A Memoir
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4.16 avg rating — 521 ratings
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82189: Confessions of a Prison Bitch
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4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader
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3.93 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Beautiful Things: A Memoir
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3.87 avg rating — 8,235 ratings
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Manuel II Palaiologos, 1350-1425: A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Kamala's Way: An American Life
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3.33 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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Calhoun: American Heretic
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4.23 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay
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3.98 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907 (Volume 2)
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did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
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3.70 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 131,665 ratings
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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3.74 avg rating — 2,671 ratings
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Nicolae Iorga: A Biography
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank
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4.16 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution
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4.05 avg rating — 219 ratings
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An Educated Woman In Prostitution: A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit (Calcutta, 1929)
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3.61 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood
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3.72 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
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3.67 avg rating — 3,891 ratings
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Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 461 ratings
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George II: Not Just a British Monarch
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3.49 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Odyssey: My Life as a Controversial Evolutionary Psychologist
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
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4.54 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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It's Her Story - Ida B. Wells - A Graphic Novel
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
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It's Her Story: Dolly Parton
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4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
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4.27 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Atlanta’s Iconic Ape: The Life of Willie B
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3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian
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4.37 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
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4.15 avg rating — 786 ratings
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We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
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4.04 avg rating — 4,091 ratings
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A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
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3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings
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American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
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3.90 avg rating — 994 ratings
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His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
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4.50 avg rating — 6,631 ratings
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The King's Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein
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4.21 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Churchill & Son
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3.94 avg rating — 274 ratings
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