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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 77,021 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
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4.08 avg rating — 74,079 ratings
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Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
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4.33 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.14 avg rating — 31,628 ratings
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Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
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3.51 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
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4.04 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,231 ratings
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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
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4.07 avg rating — 583 ratings
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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3.76 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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Death by Petticoat: American History Myths Debunked
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3.44 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence
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3.68 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
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3.67 avg rating — 10,686 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
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3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Miss Leslie's Lady's House-Book; a Manual of Domestic Economy Containing Approved Directions for Washing, Dress-Making
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 3: The Linguistic Evidence
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3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
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4.29 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
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3.97 avg rating — 1,157 ratings
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John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
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4.32 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
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3.95 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Looking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
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4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships (Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports)
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Plantation Slave Weavers Remember: An Oral History
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4.53 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
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3.65 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
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God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
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3.91 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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3.95 avg rating — 22,952 ratings
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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
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4.26 avg rating — 3,572 ratings
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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4.29 avg rating — 5,700 ratings
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Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator
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3.67 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
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4.25 avg rating — 164 ratings
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A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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4.36 avg rating — 760 ratings
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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
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3.76 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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4.24 avg rating — 6,581 ratings
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Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother
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3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy And the Protocols of the Elders Of Zion
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3.81 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film
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3.78 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
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3.91 avg rating — 2,500 ratings
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
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4.27 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning
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4.17 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
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3.46 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Old West Showdown: Two Authors Wrangle over the Truth about the Mythic Old West
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
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3.86 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
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3.32 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
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3.91 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die
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4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
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3.19 avg rating — 151 ratings
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“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
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4.11 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
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Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
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3.60 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History: The Truth from Colonial Times to World War II
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3.53 avg rating — 658 ratings
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The myth of the Appalachian brain drain;: A case study of West Virginia,
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THE MYTH OF SOUTHERN EXCEPTIONALISM
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3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang
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4.32 avg rating — 449 ratings
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
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3.39 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
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3.98 avg rating — 281 ratings
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How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
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3.50 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
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3.49 avg rating — 548 ratings
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Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
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3.63 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
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3.70 avg rating — 626 ratings
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John Brown in Memory and Myth
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
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4.14 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
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4.01 avg rating — 662 ratings
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An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
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4.34 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
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4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings
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One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title
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4.41 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed
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3.35 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
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4.07 avg rating — 5,830 ratings
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Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons: Challenging Conventional Wisdom About Nuclear Deterrence, War, and 21st Century Power
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3.69 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
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3.91 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
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3.71 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
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3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series)
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3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song
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3.71 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
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3.89 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?: The Truth Behind Old Wives' Tales
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3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History
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3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
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4.28 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
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3.63 avg rating — 99 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 18,600 ratings
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
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4.28 avg rating — 8,427 ratings
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Paying the Land
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4.32 avg rating — 3,467 ratings
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Palestine
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4.26 avg rating — 22,528 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,723 ratings
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
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3.68 avg rating — 216 ratings
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League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
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4.19 avg rating — 4,765 ratings
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
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4.20 avg rating — 7,635 ratings
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Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
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4.14 avg rating — 622 ratings
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We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
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4.01 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
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4.31 avg rating — 269 ratings
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The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
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3.92 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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Myths About Suicide
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4.02 avg rating — 315 ratings
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