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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 6,492 ratings — published 2014
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 13,486 ratings — published 2011
Locomotive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,234 ratings — published 2013
So You Want to Be President? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 8,609 ratings — published 2000
Snowflake Bentley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 16,686 ratings — published 1998
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as informational)
avg rating 4.14 — 21,661 ratings — published 2012
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,994 ratings — published 2003
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 486,407 ratings — published 2012
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book)
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avg rating 4.35 — 559,293 ratings — published 1969
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 12,921 ratings — published 2001
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,726 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 912,533 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 892,356 ratings — published 2008
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,331 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,339,658 ratings — published 1947
Actual Size (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,651 ratings — published 2004
We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 4,122 ratings — published 2008
My Five Senses Big Book (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,093 ratings — published 1962
Lincoln: A Photobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 11,040 ratings — published 1987
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 16,823 ratings — published 2007
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 631,701 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,442 ratings — published 2011
Inside the Human Body (The Magic School Bus, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 34,747 ratings — published 1989
Bones: Skeletons and How They Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 948 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 15,603 ratings — published 2003
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 924 ratings — published 2009
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,624 ratings — published 2009
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 13,031 ratings — published 1995
Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 405 ratings — published 2008
Cow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 77 ratings — published 1997
The Tiny Seed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13,364 ratings — published 1970
An Egg Is Quiet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,444 ratings — published 2006
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 239,353 ratings — published 2017
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,429,773 ratings — published 2018
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 14,381 ratings — published 2005
Me... Jane (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 13,775 ratings — published 2011
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,459 ratings — published 1998
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 869,014 ratings — published 2000
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 830,546 ratings — published 2010
Parrots Over Puerto Rico (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,866 ratings — published 2013
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 618,896 ratings — published 2011
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as informational)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,421 ratings — published 2010
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as informational)
avg rating 4.30 — 223,189 ratings — published 2024
What If There Were No Bees?: A Book About the Grassland Ecosystem (Food Chain Reactions)
by (shelved 33 times as informational)
avg rating 4.23 — 186 ratings — published 2010
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 201,543 ratings — published 2014
Giant Squid (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,582 ratings — published 2015
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,740 ratings — published 2014
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,296 ratings — published 2015
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 578,302 ratings — published 2012
Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,503 ratings — published 2006
“But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“Vichwa vitatu vya sururu na chembe tatu za bunduki za Kalashnikov; na alama ya bahati, mafanikio, udhalimu na mwanzo mpya ya msalaba wa swastika, kama alama ya ujenzi na uhalifu wa Kolonia Santita.”
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