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Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
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3.76 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?
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4.15 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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4.02 avg rating — 50,548 ratings
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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3.82 avg rating — 5,615 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 233,470 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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4.10 avg rating — 25,403 ratings
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Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation
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3.79 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Hot Cripple: An Incurable Smart-ass Takes on the Health Care System and Lives to Tell the Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Hammer Hood Gang (The Hammer Hood Gang, #1).
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
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4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Skinhead... The Life I Chose: Memoirs of a Real Skin
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3.64 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
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4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
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4.05 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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Anxiety
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4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America
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4.01 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Gunpowder Soup
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4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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White Boy in Watts
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3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind
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4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy
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3.79 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Last of the Hippies
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3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
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4.31 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
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4.20 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
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3.93 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
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3.57 avg rating — 13,722 ratings
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Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground
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4.21 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
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3.96 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
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Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music
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3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena: Includes New Essays Published for the First Time
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3.74 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It
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3.72 avg rating — 5,091 ratings
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The Trials of Arthur
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4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Skinhead... The Life I Chose
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3.64 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers
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3.34 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,196 ratings
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Walden, or Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 203,956 ratings
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Comics as Culture
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3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
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4.10 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
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3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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4.20 avg rating — 14,789 ratings
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Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier
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3.86 avg rating — 873 ratings
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Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of New Orleans
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
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3.77 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales – A Moving Journey of Rootedness and Devotion to Place
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3.87 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979
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4.51 avg rating — 593 ratings
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American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds
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3.80 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Culture of American College Radio
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1.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
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4.04 avg rating — 11,529 ratings
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The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
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3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America (Contemporary Ethnography)
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3.94 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Dry Storeroom No. 1
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3.73 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
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Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss
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1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
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3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven (Studies in Popular Culture Series)
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 38,664 ratings
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Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture
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3.66 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
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3.70 avg rating — 656 ratings
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Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
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3.81 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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3.81 avg rating — 64,620 ratings
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition
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3.82 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side
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4.11 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader (Caravan Book)
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Gullah Culture in America
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4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the United States
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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4.13 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
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Family Trees: The Peach Culture of the Piedmont
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
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4.39 avg rating — 643 ratings
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Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
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4.31 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community
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3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures
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3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture
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3.96 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals
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4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
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4.44 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
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3.97 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers (The Florida History and Culture Series)
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3.88 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
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4.39 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads)
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3.82 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Ham Radio's Technical Culture (Inside Technology)
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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
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4.11 avg rating — 5,761 ratings
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Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Plus, I looked at the list creator's votes and they are all non-fiction. And one of the tags is "non-fiction". So I removed the fiction.