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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 733,570 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 762,664 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 571,882 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,900 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 119,544 ratings
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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4.01 avg rating — 7,771 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,960 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 29,367 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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3.88 avg rating — 21,945 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
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4.13 avg rating — 25,590 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 82,281 ratings
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
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3.96 avg rating — 2,830 ratings
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
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4.40 avg rating — 2,062 ratings
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,221 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.30 avg rating — 12,725 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 119,314 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 62,182 ratings
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
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4.26 avg rating — 66,843 ratings
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
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4.25 avg rating — 39,571 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 154,457 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
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4.22 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
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What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
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4.25 avg rating — 2,458 ratings
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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 80,223 ratings
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
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4.01 avg rating — 5,169 ratings
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
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4.19 avg rating — 2,311 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 65,192 ratings
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
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4.32 avg rating — 2,686 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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4.17 avg rating — 3,188 ratings
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Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
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3.59 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
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3.95 avg rating — 978 ratings
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Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
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3.71 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
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3.88 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
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3.90 avg rating — 10,394 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
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4.15 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Firehouse
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4.07 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
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4.21 avg rating — 2,920 ratings
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After the Fire: A True Story of Friendship and Survival
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4.15 avg rating — 822 ratings
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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
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4.04 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
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4.37 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,405 ratings
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When I Fell From the Sky
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3.74 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History
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4.43 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
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4.17 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike
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4.12 avg rating — 610 ratings
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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
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4.28 avg rating — 620 ratings
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K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
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4.02 avg rating — 6,995 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 65,710 ratings
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The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors
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4.17 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
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3.75 avg rating — 587 ratings
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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
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3.83 avg rating — 3,730 ratings
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How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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3.48 avg rating — 845 ratings
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Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
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4.23 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Rubble: The Search For A Haitian Boy
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3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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4.19 avg rating — 9,651 ratings
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The People of Three Mile Island
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,361 ratings
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
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4.03 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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3.94 avg rating — 14,528 ratings
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Fields of Grace: Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything
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4.02 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
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4.08 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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Remembrances of the Angels: 50th Anniversary Reminiscences of the Fire No One Can Forget
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4.45 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
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3.50 avg rating — 634 ratings
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The Fire That Will Not Die
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4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Strong in the rain: surviving Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster
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3.81 avg rating — 199 ratings
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The Triangle Fire
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4.16 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
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3.88 avg rating — 877 ratings
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The New York City Triangle Factory Fire
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4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 41,255 ratings
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Jackboot Britain
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3.67 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Fire Underground
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3.91 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Surviving Sandy: The Superstorm That Reshaped Our Lives
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
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3.84 avg rating — 2,081 ratings
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Die letzten Tage von Rungholt
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3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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4.38 avg rating — 30,966 ratings
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Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
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4.23 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Early Thursday: A War, A Hurricane, A Miracle!
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4.61 avg rating — 44 ratings
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In the Shadow of No Towers
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3.68 avg rating — 4,173 ratings
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Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis―A Memoir and Expert Analysis of Our World's Growing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters
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4.19 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Sandy Hook
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4.27 avg rating — 3,977 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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4.36 avg rating — 16,747 ratings
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Tsunami Dolphins
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Pentagon 9/11
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Hawk's Nest
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3.97 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Fatal Avalanches in the US: 2021-22: A Review of the Season's Fatal Avalanches
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying
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4.43 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
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3.98 avg rating — 6,133 ratings
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Ships Gone Missing: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913
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3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Dogs of Chernobyl
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4.16 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Columbine Official Report: Columbine Review Commission: 2001
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3.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Three Months Under the Snow: The Journal of a Young Inhabitant of the Jura
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3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
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4.15 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Fatal Avalanches in the US: 2021-22: A Review of the Season's Fatal Avalanches
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Trials of Lenny Bruce
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3.69 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Tornado Watch Number 211
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4.17 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
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3.29 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Meltdown: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima
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4.18 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Young Men and Fire
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4.03 avg rating — 7,349 ratings
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Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
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3.93 avg rating — 3,829 ratings
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