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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 53,667 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 265,836 ratings
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
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3.96 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,325 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 456,801 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,621 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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4.36 avg rating — 11,641 ratings
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
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3.64 avg rating — 8,966 ratings
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1776
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4.10 avg rating — 248,099 ratings
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
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4.13 avg rating — 4,644 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Vintage Departures)
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4.07 avg rating — 20,015 ratings
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
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4.32 avg rating — 2,942 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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4.45 avg rating — 4,348 ratings
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So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II
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3.92 avg rating — 399 ratings
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Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck
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3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
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3.77 avg rating — 3,691 ratings
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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4.19 avg rating — 9,526 ratings
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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
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4.05 avg rating — 2,898 ratings
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
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4.30 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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Conservatives Without Conscience
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3.99 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai
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3.81 avg rating — 2,308 ratings
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Women Heroes of World War II―the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival (Women of Action, #18)
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4.18 avg rating — 163 ratings
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In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
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3.79 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
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4.35 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Red Lead: The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway
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4.15 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
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3.62 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
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4.14 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge
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3.39 avg rating — 38 ratings
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And I Alone Survived
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4.11 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
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4.09 avg rating — 2,201 ratings
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My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
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4.18 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything
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4.05 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Before and After
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3.98 avg rating — 23,286 ratings
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
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3.94 avg rating — 3,837 ratings
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Hell's Broke Loose In Georgia: Survival In A Civil War Regiment
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Survive Like a Spy: Real CIA Operatives Reveal How They Stay Safe in a Dangerous World and How You Can Too
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3.36 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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3.92 avg rating — 15,037 ratings
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Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
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4.19 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival During the Korean War
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3.49 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Boone: A Biography
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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Catch Me If You Can
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4.04 avg rating — 62,268 ratings
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The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
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3.88 avg rating — 973 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
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4.15 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
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3.89 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute
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4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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3.98 avg rating — 14,078 ratings
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The DNA of Democracy
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3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
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4.14 avg rating — 227 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 — 840 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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3.87 avg rating — 39,554 ratings
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway
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3.26 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
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3.91 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72
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4.44 avg rating — 2,186 ratings
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
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4.07 avg rating — 4,807 ratings
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Hannah Senesh, Her Life and Diary
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4.33 avg rating — 241 ratings
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The Catholic Church: A Short History
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3.78 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
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4.05 avg rating — 62 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,538 ratings
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
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4.24 avg rating — 3,947 ratings
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Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
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4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
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3.75 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on theBrink
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3.93 avg rating — 344 ratings
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The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
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4.04 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
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4.03 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
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4.06 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South
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4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan's Voyage to Infidels
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3.59 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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4.24 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Powers of Desire
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3.66 avg rating — 56 ratings
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David's Story: Healed by faith, love, inner strength and the strong will to survive
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4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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World Atlas of Revolutions
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3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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4.08 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
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Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
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4.29 avg rating — 2,647 ratings
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Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
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4.19 avg rating — 644 ratings
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I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
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4.11 avg rating — 4,690 ratings
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Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
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4.22 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
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3.50 avg rating — 309 ratings
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A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
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3.98 avg rating — 164 ratings
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I Survived Ted Bundy: The Attack, Escape & PTSD That Changed My Life
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4.08 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
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4.32 avg rating — 24,973 ratings
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Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More
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3.97 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived
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3.92 avg rating — 12 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 — 61,708 ratings
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Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that Shocked the Sports World
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4.38 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
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3.57 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
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4.26 avg rating — 10,516 ratings
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
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4.03 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
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3.86 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
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4.08 avg rating — 18,636 ratings
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California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival
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4.23 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Dog that Survived the Titanic: And Other Amazing Animal Stories
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
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3.39 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
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4.25 avg rating — 18,939 ratings
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Strangers in a Stranger Land: How One Country's Jews Fought an Unwinnable War alongside Nazi Troops… and Survived
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4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story Of Five American Airmen, A Doomed Plane, And The Will To Survive
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3.82 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)
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4.10 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
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4.38 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
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4.09 avg rating — 18,559 ratings
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Franci's War: A Woman's Story of Survival
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4.04 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Lost Legend of the Thryberg Hawk: The Mystery Crossbow Boy who Saved the Fortunes of York at the Battle of Towton
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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