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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture & the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by Bart D. Ehrman (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.97 — 431 ratings — published 2002

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Ski Style: Sport And Culture In The Rockies (Cultureamerica)
by Annie Gilbert Coleman (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2004

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The Port Chicago Mutiny (Paperback)
by Robert L. Allen (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.20 — 8 ratings — published 1989

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Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)
by Carolyn Rouse (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 2.57 — 13 ratings — published 2004

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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Paperback)
by Linda Gordon (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.85 — 74 ratings — published 1999

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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
by Don Kulick (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.95 — 111 ratings — published 1998

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The Annotated Pride & Prejudice (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.57 — 399 ratings — published 2003

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by Kate Summerscale (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,830 ratings — published 2008

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The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript (Paperback)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,676 ratings — published 1980

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Foucault's Pendulum (Paperback)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,515 ratings — published 1988

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Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (Paperback)
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2006

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Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by Italo Calvino (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,801 ratings — published 1972

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Castle of Otranto and the Man of Feeling, The, A Longman Cultural Edition (Longman Cultural Editions)
by Horace Walpole (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.00 — 7 ratings — published 2006

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Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg (Hardcover)
by Andrea Warren (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published 2009

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Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics (Hardcover)
by Gino Segre (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.79 — 71 ratings — published 2007

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The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Bradford Books)
by Richard E. Cytowic (Goodreads author) (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.84 — 198 ratings — published 1993

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The Essential Paul Ramsey: A Collection (Hardcover)
by Paul Ramsey (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 1994

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Politics, medicine, and Christian ethics; a dialogue with Paul Ramsey (Unknown Binding)
by Charles E Curran (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1973

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,489 ratings — published 2007

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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century (Norton Anthology of English Literature (Paperback))
by Stephen Greenblatt (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.32 — 322 ratings — published 1999

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Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale (Paperback)
by Jessica Tiffin (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 2009

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Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Cornell Paperbacks)
by Jeffrey Burton Russell (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.77 — 34 ratings — published 1984

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The Romance of the Rose (Oxford World's Classics)
by Guillaume de Lorris (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.55 — 102 ratings — published 1962

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Pushkin: A Biography (Paperback)
by T.J. Binyon (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.45 — 35 ratings — published 2002

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History of the Breast (Paperback)
by Marilyn Yalom (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.98 — 109 ratings — published 1997

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Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 37) (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 37)
by Sarah Gordon (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.50 — 3 ratings — published 2006

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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (Hardcover)
by Lewis Carroll (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,686 ratings — published 1871

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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.88 — 92,123 ratings — published 1958

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Japan: Its History and Culture (Paperback)
by W. Scott Morton (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.33 — 28 ratings — published 1970

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Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by Frantz Fanon (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,002 ratings — published 1952

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A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre (Paperback)
by C. Innes (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2000

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The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by Frantz Fanon (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,678 ratings — published 1961

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Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud)
by Sigmund Freud (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.34 — 565 ratings — published 1963

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The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
by Maria Tatar (Editor ) (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.24 — 236 ratings — published 1998

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Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by Frances Gies (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.73 — 91 ratings — published 1994

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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (Hardcover)
by Caroline Weber (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.97 — 588 ratings — published 2006

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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paperback)
by Paul Fussell (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.83 — 159 ratings — published 1979

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Shoes: A History From Sandals to Sneakers (Hardcover)
by Peter McNeil (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 5.00 — 12 ratings — published 2006

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Literature and Its Writers : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Paperback)
by Ann Charters (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1997

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Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition, Vol. 1: Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaissance (Paperback)
by Maynard Mack (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 51 ratings — published 1987

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Version, Sixth Edition (Paperback)
by Nina Baym (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.91 — 140 ratings — published 1986

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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,099 ratings — published 2001

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Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (Paperback)
by Stephen M. Norris (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2008

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Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (Paperback)
by Joseph Frank (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.32 — 68 ratings — published 1977

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Orientalism and Religion (Paperback)
by Richard King (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 3.75 — 10 ratings — published 1999

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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire (Profiles in History)
by Clare Pettitt (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2007

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The Russian Gothic Novel and Its British Antecedents (Paperback)
by Mark S. Simpson (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1986

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Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Paperback)
by Peter K. Garrett (shelved 1 time as scholarly)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2003

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