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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
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4.05 avg rating — 1,717 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 — 1,148 ratings
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
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4.56 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
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4.09 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
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3.88 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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3.52 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
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3.80 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
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The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple
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3.82 avg rating — 188 ratings
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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4.11 avg rating — 262,772 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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4.05 avg rating — 32,635 ratings
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing – A Masterful Aviation History of the Spirit of St. Louis
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4.20 avg rating — 556 ratings
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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
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3.73 avg rating — 13,150 ratings
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
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4.31 avg rating — 285 ratings
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express – A Groundbreaking American History of Daring Transcontinental Communication
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3.42 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
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4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Good Mothers: The Story of the Three Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia
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4.11 avg rating — 1,475 ratings
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Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story
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4.14 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy in Conversation with Heads of State, Business Leaders, Influencers, and Activists about Her Father's Impact on Their Lives
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4.18 avg rating — 239 ratings
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An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
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3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
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3.66 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained
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3.82 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
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4.28 avg rating — 1,532 ratings
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Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
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3.74 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
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3.78 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
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3.56 avg rating — 2,594 ratings
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
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3.42 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
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3.64 avg rating — 72 ratings
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America – The New York Times Bestseller: Incisive Cultural Criticism on Race and Gender
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4.04 avg rating — 6,743 ratings
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Educated
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4.47 avg rating — 1,838,512 ratings
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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3.44 avg rating — 77,210 ratings
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Reporter: A Memoir
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4.13 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
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4.04 avg rating — 475 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.34 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
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4.03 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
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4.23 avg rating — 4,535 ratings
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations
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4.06 avg rating — 3,792 ratings
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
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4.14 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Kompromat: How Russia Undermined American Democracy
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3.49 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire
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3.44 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Elsa Lanchester, Herself
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3.75 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
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4.01 avg rating — 34,990 ratings
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We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust
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4.23 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Full Battle Rattle: My Story as the Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier in American History
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4.12 avg rating — 315 ratings
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A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram
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4.24 avg rating — 374 ratings
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The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables
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4.21 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
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4.03 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
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4.15 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
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4.59 avg rating — 926 ratings
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
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4.17 avg rating — 4,068 ratings
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Evelyn Waugh's Oxford
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3.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man: Fame, Fashion, Art
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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3.93 avg rating — 2,471 ratings
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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
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3.42 avg rating — 191 ratings
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St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire
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3.98 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 39,953 ratings
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Energy: A Human History
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3.75 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
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Why Cold War Again?: How America Lost Post-Soviet Russia
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
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4.52 avg rating — 360 ratings
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What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History
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3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
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3.94 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
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4.30 avg rating — 12,553 ratings
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Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
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4.20 avg rating — 6,681 ratings
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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
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4.10 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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Heart Berries
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3.82 avg rating — 30,020 ratings
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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4.37 avg rating — 10,717 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
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4.03 avg rating — 4,111 ratings
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It
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4.10 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
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4.14 avg rating — 247 ratings
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
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4.11 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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4.16 avg rating — 32,048 ratings
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family
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3.18 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
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4.01 avg rating — 288 ratings
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America
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4.05 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
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Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
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4.22 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt
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4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
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4.39 avg rating — 754 ratings
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The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis
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3.75 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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4.09 avg rating — 2,159 ratings
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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4.28 avg rating — 574 ratings
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The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
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4.05 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
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4.06 avg rating — 124 ratings
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
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4.01 avg rating — 4,895 ratings
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Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
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3.76 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
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4.13 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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4.53 avg rating — 22,246 ratings
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Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
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3.81 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
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4.01 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Abe & Fido: Lincoln's Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion
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3.75 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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3.65 avg rating — 7,141 ratings
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
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4.15 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
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4.34 avg rating — 3,131 ratings
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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
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3.79 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee's Book and America's Iconic Film Mean to Us Today
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3.82 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Industrial Design in the Modern Age
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China's Crisis of Success
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Land of July: A Real Life Scandal of Sex & Social Media at a Connecticut High School
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3.40 avg rating — 189 ratings
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
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4.03 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
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3.84 avg rating — 2,204 ratings
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
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4.03 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll
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3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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