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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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3.90 avg rating — 802 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.05 avg rating — 10,523 ratings
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Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
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4.28 avg rating — 1,367 ratings
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The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession
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3.81 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
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The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life
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4.42 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
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3.75 avg rating — 941 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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4.17 avg rating — 9,959 ratings
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The Exodus
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4.04 avg rating — 659 ratings
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
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3.99 avg rating — 34,644 ratings
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
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4.21 avg rating — 16,693 ratings
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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3.77 avg rating — 6,495 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 187,107 ratings
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
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3.80 avg rating — 840 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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3.91 avg rating — 7,398 ratings
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
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4.12 avg rating — 5,674 ratings
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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
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4.20 avg rating — 12,245 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 124,593 ratings
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Paul Revere's Ride
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4.14 avg rating — 7,961 ratings
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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
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4.21 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
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4.10 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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3.92 avg rating — 34,730 ratings
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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
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4.20 avg rating — 514 ratings
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On Trails: An Exploration
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3.95 avg rating — 8,964 ratings
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Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution
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3.42 avg rating — 318 ratings
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The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
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4.15 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West
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3.64 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Louise Brooks: A Biography
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4.19 avg rating — 979 ratings
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Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike
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4.08 avg rating — 664 ratings
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When the King Took Flight
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3.88 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939–1979
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 583 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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4.30 avg rating — 2,936 ratings
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The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook
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4.75 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool
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4.43 avg rating — 962 ratings
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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
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3.88 avg rating — 22,434 ratings
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Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
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4.09 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,533 ratings
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To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
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3.75 avg rating — 830 ratings
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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
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3.79 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Travels with a Mexican Circus
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3.66 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything
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3.79 avg rating — 4,446 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,510 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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4.05 avg rating — 9,690 ratings
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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones
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4.25 avg rating — 4,945 ratings
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Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
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4.01 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
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4.16 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8) (Volume 8)
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4.18 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
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3.63 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Sweet Spot: An Ice Cream Binge Across America
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3.26 avg rating — 484 ratings
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This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
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3.70 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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4.27 avg rating — 14,583 ratings
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
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3.82 avg rating — 6,164 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.23 avg rating — 21,186 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.81 avg rating — 33,924 ratings
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Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
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4.01 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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3.86 avg rating — 73,057 ratings
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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
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3.83 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
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3.89 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
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4.16 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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4.06 avg rating — 10,039 ratings
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The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria
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3.87 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Granuaile: Sea Queen of Ireland
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3.50 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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Turning Pro
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4.15 avg rating — 14,373 ratings
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
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3.89 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Enchanted Vagabonds
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4.46 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
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3.68 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 72,008 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
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3.82 avg rating — 9,282 ratings
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A Man on the Moon
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4.49 avg rating — 7,695 ratings
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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3.86 avg rating — 6,951 ratings
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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4.03 avg rating — 5,156 ratings
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
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3.79 avg rating — 4,196 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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3.79 avg rating — 72,888 ratings
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Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics
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4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,401 ratings
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 5,023 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 89,413 ratings
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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
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3.50 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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American Ghost
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3.52 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
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4.43 avg rating — 890 ratings
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Capsized!: The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster
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4.09 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi
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4.05 avg rating — 552 ratings
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Mozart's Starling
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3.96 avg rating — 3,616 ratings
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Joe Gould's Teeth
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3.49 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
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3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 806,803 ratings
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
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3.31 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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3.66 avg rating — 7,782 ratings
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High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
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4.20 avg rating — 673 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,275 ratings
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