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Bad Science
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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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Audition: A Memoir
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
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What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
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Barbara Kerley (Goodreads Author)
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
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Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
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The Poverty of the Poverty Rate: Measure and Mismeasure of Material Deprivation in Modern America
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
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What Really Sank the Titanic
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
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4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Ian Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 26,148 ratings
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science
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3.85 avg rating — 59,826 ratings
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London's Dead: A Guided Tour of the capital's dead
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3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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4.23 avg rating — 74,169 ratings
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
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How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
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Keri Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 14,121 ratings
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Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
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Shane O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Puritan's Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History
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4.56 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
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Jaclyn Friedman (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5,240 ratings
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Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
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David Maraniss (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
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Laurie Notaro (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 6,785 ratings
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A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518
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The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives
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The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
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The Weather of the Pacific Northwest
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
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Jonathan Lopez (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 8,544 ratings
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The Wordy Shipmates
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A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire
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Wishful Drinking
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 7,162 ratings
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As You Do: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana
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A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
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Alex Beam (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Journey Home
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Radhanath Swami (Goodreads Author)
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
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Rose George (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,615 ratings
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
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Titanic Victims and Villains: Victims Villains
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Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King and I" Governess
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)
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Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
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John Soennichsen (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
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By Any Means: His Brand New Adventure from Wicklow to Wollongong
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
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Just What I Always Wanted
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Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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Amanda Ripley (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 9,339 ratings
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How the States Got Their Shapes
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Portland's Woodlawn Neighborhood
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Radiator Days
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Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 673 ratings
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
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Bill Bishop (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 2,367 ratings
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Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau
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Jennifer Berne (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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The Art of Herge, Inventor of Tintin, Volume 1: 1907-1937
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The Wolves Are Back
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
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Oregon's Greatest Natural Disasters (Oregon Guidebooks)
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William L. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 69 ratings
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A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
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Tuna: A Love Story
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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
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Jeff Gordinier (Goodreads Author)
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Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
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James M. Deem (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 243 ratings
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We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
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