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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
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3.76 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain
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4.26 avg rating — 3,576 ratings
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Waterland
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3.89 avg rating — 10,451 ratings
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Swimming Home
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3.44 avg rating — 17,870 ratings
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The Waves
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4.14 avg rating — 57,093 ratings
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 83,118 ratings
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The Drowned World
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3.46 avg rating — 21,631 ratings
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A River Runs Through It
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4.15 avg rating — 12,883 ratings
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A Millstone Round My Neck: The Restoration of a Cornish Water Mill
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Swimmer
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4.03 avg rating — 6,026 ratings
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Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 34,244 ratings
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.03 avg rating — 248,777 ratings
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Dead in the Water (Kate Shugak, #3)
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4.15 avg rating — 6,859 ratings
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The Sea, the Sea
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3.97 avg rating — 27,138 ratings
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By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
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4.18 avg rating — 85,018 ratings
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Tarka the Otter
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3.74 avg rating — 2,466 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 120,844 ratings
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Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront
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4.41 avg rating — 41 ratings
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River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia
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4.18 avg rating — 1,150 ratings
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The Blackwater Lightship
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3.96 avg rating — 9,394 ratings
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Turning
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3.75 avg rating — 706 ratings
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Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water
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4.12 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
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4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Secret River
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3.81 avg rating — 26,099 ratings
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The Swimming-Pool Library
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3.71 avg rating — 11,718 ratings
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The Marsh Arabs
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4.19 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal
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3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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At the Water's Edge
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3.69 avg rating — 85,667 ratings
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At Swim, Two Boys
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4.10 avg rating — 9,964 ratings
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Across the River and into the Trees
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3.29 avg rating — 12,457 ratings
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A River Sutra
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3.90 avg rating — 2,615 ratings
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The Lake of Dreams
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3.19 avg rating — 14,822 ratings
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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
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3.75 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 112,690 ratings
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Liquid Assets: The Lidos and Open Air Swimming Pools of Britain
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Adventures in Ocean Exploration : From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.82 avg rating — 1,379,294 ratings
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Islands in the Stream
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3.88 avg rating — 17,570 ratings
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Mudlark River: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map
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3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Taking the Waters: A Swim Around Hampstead Heath
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
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3.56 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Light Between Oceans
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4.05 avg rating — 491,808 ratings
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Five Go Down to the Sea (Famous Five, #12)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,407 ratings
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Spring Torrents
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3.96 avg rating — 6,121 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
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3.81 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 666,969 ratings
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The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
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4.21 avg rating — 2,947 ratings
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Dip: Wild Swims from the Borderlands
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3.95 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Edge of the Water (Whidbey Island Saga, #2)
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3.57 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
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Swim to Me
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3.42 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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The Beach
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 105,415 ratings
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Deadwater Deep
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3.95 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Something In the Water
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3.54 avg rating — 247,386 ratings
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On Chesil Beach
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3.63 avg rating — 106,148 ratings
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Hell and High Water: My Epic 900-Mile Swim from Land’s End to John O'Groats
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4.25 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Sea
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3.55 avg rating — 36,662 ratings
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Romancing the East: A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai
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3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Downstream: A History and Celebration of Swimming the River Thames
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3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Secret Water (Swallows and Amazons, #8)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,206 ratings
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The River is The River
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3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Perfume River: An Anthology of Writing from Vietnam
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3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Swimming Studies
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3.96 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
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4.02 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Dead Water (Shetland, #5)
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4.12 avg rating — 22,579 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
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4.10 avg rating — 2,657 ratings
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Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
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3.74 avg rating — 4,193 ratings
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The Waterman (Daniel Jacquot, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 358 ratings
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On a Cold Dark Sea
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3.83 avg rating — 3,271 ratings
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Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
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4.18 avg rating — 927 ratings
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The Moon on the Water
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4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Shipwreck Hunter
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4.04 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Water in England
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
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4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
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4.35 avg rating — 271,414 ratings
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
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3.85 avg rating — 153,447 ratings
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Sea Hearts
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3.69 avg rating — 4,430 ratings
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Nick Of The River
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea
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3.77 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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The Book of the River
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3.44 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
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3.45 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Barbed Wire and Babushkas: A river odyssey across siberia
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3.76 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Lucky Goes to Sea
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3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Other Side Of The River
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4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Lost Liners: From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria The Ocean Floor Reveals Its Greatest Ships
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4.38 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Moon in the River
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Into the Water
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3.58 avg rating — 428,036 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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4.09 avg rating — 4,809 ratings
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Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
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3.59 avg rating — 479 ratings
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The Light on the Water
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3.42 avg rating — 638 ratings
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Daughters of the Lake
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3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings
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A Taste of Chlorine
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3.58 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,728,043 ratings
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Dead Angler (A Loon Lake Mystery, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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Caught by the River: A Collection of Words on Water
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3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The River Home
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3.96 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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Splash: Great Writing About Swimming
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Cool list idea -- surprised I've only read two of these, and kids' books at that. (Good kids' books, of course!)
