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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society
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David Wolman (Goodreads Author)
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The Girl Who Fell to Earth
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Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science
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Chief Complaint: Brain Tumor
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John Kerastas (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass
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Melanie Neale (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
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Barb Rosenstock (Goodreads Author)
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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Distrust That Particular Flavor
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Second chances: true stories of living with Addison's disease
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
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Strong in the rain: surviving Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster
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Lucy Birmingham (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers
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James W. Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic
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Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll
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Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday
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Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
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Yes, Chef
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Marcus Samuelsson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 18,597 ratings
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When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Inside HBO's Game of Thrones
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Two Girls From The Bay
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood
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We Should All Be Feminists
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Driving the Saudis
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Jayne Amelia Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.21 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
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More Than Human
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Maps
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
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Judith Flanders (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
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Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell
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Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
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Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 4,883 ratings
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One Step at a Time
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
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Doreen Carvajal (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
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Jacob Tomsky (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 23,045 ratings
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The Distance Between Us
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Reyna Grande (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 16,720 ratings
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One Gay American
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Dennis Milam Bensie (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Resurrecting Lazarus, Texas
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Nathan Barber (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World (Best Women's Travel Writing, 8)
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3.82 avg rating — 153 ratings
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When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
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Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
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Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
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Aminta Arrington (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Swimming Studies
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Leanne Shapton (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 2,511 ratings
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The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever
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David Yoo (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
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Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
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Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,474 ratings
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Can I Get an Amen?
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Sarah Healy (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad
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Thanks for My Journey: A Holocaust Survivor's Story of Living Fearlessly
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Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
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Transposes
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Dylan Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland
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Glenn Alan Cheney (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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American Gypsy
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Oksana Marafioti (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 802 ratings
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 199,545 ratings
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In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir
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The Names of Things
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John Colman Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program
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Kevin Begos (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings
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13 Years in America
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Melanie Steele (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Queen Of The Bremen: The True Story Of An American Child Trapped In Germany During World War II
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Marlies Adams Difante (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Last Bright Days: A Young Woman's Life in a Lithuanian Shtetl on the Eve of the Holocaust
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Frank Buonagurio (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
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Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir
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Kambri Crews (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White
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Barbra: A Retrospective
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Show Dog: The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
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Josh Dean (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 897 ratings
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Immortal Bird
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
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David Treuer (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,621 ratings
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Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
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The Silence of Our Friends
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January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
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Michael Schofield (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 8,858 ratings
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The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA
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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
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Kate & Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story
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City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
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Gary Krist (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 3,365 ratings
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March Was Made of Yarn
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David Karashima (editor)
3.71 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
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Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
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Looking for the Gulf Motel
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Richard Blanco (Goodreads Author)
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