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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,816 ratings — published 2005
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,786 ratings — published 1970
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as americas)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,157,352 ratings — published 1967
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,146,591 ratings — published 1960
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,342 ratings — published 2019
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,666 ratings — published 2011
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,021 ratings — published 1971
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,121 ratings — published 1980
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as americas)
avg rating 4.45 — 27,146 ratings — published 2019
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,972 ratings — published 2010
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,165,158 ratings — published 1925
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,965,262 ratings — published 1937
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 116,331 ratings — published 2009
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as americas)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,904 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,306 ratings — published 2015
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as americas)
avg rating 4.31 — 350,791 ratings — published 1982
History of Bourbon (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,901 ratings — published 2019
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,340 ratings — published 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,575,537 ratings — published 1985
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,626 ratings — published 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.94 — 564,908 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as americas)
avg rating 4.50 — 191,685 ratings — published 2013
Cuba: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,972 ratings — published 2021
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,296 ratings — published 1986
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.14 — 473,591 ratings — published 2017
Bolívar: American Liberator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,946 ratings — published 2013
The Mueller Report: The Comprehensive Findings of the Special Counsel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,106 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,811,238 ratings — published 2018
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.36 — 22,005 ratings — published 2014
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.95 — 406,652 ratings — published 1989
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,025,123 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,325,955 ratings — published 1963
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,032,075 ratings — published 1939
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,106,280 ratings — published 2009
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.66 — 471,632 ratings — published 2020
The Dead Drink First (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,428 ratings — published 2019
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,465 ratings — published 2015
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,470,475 ratings — published 2017
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,542 ratings — published 2011
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 461,896 ratings — published 2016
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.64 — 20,040 ratings — published 1977
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,974 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,987,330 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,396 ratings — published 1982
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.97 — 254,439 ratings — published 1981
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,039 ratings — published 1938
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.80 — 48,142 ratings — published 1992
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,166 ratings — published 2020
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.11 — 886,950 ratings — published 2020
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 747,476 ratings — published 1952
“Komandoo Nicolas Kahima Kankiriho ('Kahima the Warrior') alizaliwa katika Wilaya ya Bushenyi, Ankole, kusini-magharibi mwa Uganda, Julai 24, 1954, mtoto wa tano kuzaliwa, katika familia ya watoto sita ya Nicodemas Kankiriho; mzee wa heshima wa Wabaima, aliyekuwa akisifika sana kwa uchungaji (wa mifugo) na msisitizo mkali wa ukiristo kwa watoto wake wote; hasa Kahima na Yebare, binti yake wa pekee, aliyekuwa wa mwisho kuzaliwa.
Kahima (futi 6 inchi 3 aliyekuwa akiongea Kinyankole, Kiswahili, Kiingereza na Kihispania kwa ufasaha), baada ya kutoka Uganda – kwa mafunzo ya mwanzo ya ukomandoo ya Kiisraeli – alikwenda Urusi na Korea ya Kaskazini ambako aliongeza ujuzi hadi kiwango cha juu kabisa; kabla ya kwenda Amerika ya Kusini, kama askari wa msituni wa vyama vya kisiasa visivyo rasmi vya magorila wa Kolombia.
Akiwa Kolombia, Kahima alikutana na Eduardo Chapa de Christopher (kiongozi wa zamani wa Kateli ya Diablos de Amazonas, Mashetani wa Amazoni, iliyokuwa ikivilinda vyama vya kisiasa vya magorila vya Americas) ambaye alimwajiri kama mlinzi binafsi na baadaye kama mlinzi binafsi wa Carlos Pulecio Alcántara – kiongozi wa kwanza wa Kateli ya Kolonia Santita. Alcántara alipouwawa, Kahima alihamia kwa Panthera Tigrisi – Kiongozi Mkuu wa Kolonia Santita.”
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Kahima (futi 6 inchi 3 aliyekuwa akiongea Kinyankole, Kiswahili, Kiingereza na Kihispania kwa ufasaha), baada ya kutoka Uganda – kwa mafunzo ya mwanzo ya ukomandoo ya Kiisraeli – alikwenda Urusi na Korea ya Kaskazini ambako aliongeza ujuzi hadi kiwango cha juu kabisa; kabla ya kwenda Amerika ya Kusini, kama askari wa msituni wa vyama vya kisiasa visivyo rasmi vya magorila wa Kolombia.
Akiwa Kolombia, Kahima alikutana na Eduardo Chapa de Christopher (kiongozi wa zamani wa Kateli ya Diablos de Amazonas, Mashetani wa Amazoni, iliyokuwa ikivilinda vyama vya kisiasa vya magorila vya Americas) ambaye alimwajiri kama mlinzi binafsi na baadaye kama mlinzi binafsi wa Carlos Pulecio Alcántara – kiongozi wa kwanza wa Kateli ya Kolonia Santita. Alcántara alipouwawa, Kahima alihamia kwa Panthera Tigrisi – Kiongozi Mkuu wa Kolonia Santita.”
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“Imagine. To have your father sitting down eating dinner or shining his shoes while watching TV. To have your front door blown off its hinges and the police rush in. To see your father in handcuffs, led away.”
― One Crazy Summer
― One Crazy Summer