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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
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West with the Night
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Black Boy
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I Rode With Stonewall: Being Chiefly The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson's Staff from John Brown's Raid to the Hanging of Mrs. Surratt
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The Ethics of Ambiguity
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Головні правила українського правопису
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The Unmoving
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God Passes by
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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Man's Search for Meaning
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Discovery of India
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Походження українського народу
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Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith
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Strangely Enough
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4.01 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Hiroshima
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The World of Yesterday
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4.51 avg rating — 28,231 ratings
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Дорогою відрадянщення: публіцистичні та наукові тексти 1941-1943 рр.
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
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4.34 avg rating — 6,394 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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Economics in One Lesson
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Думки проти течії
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4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
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On the Abolition of All Political Parties
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Nine Suitcases: A Memoir
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
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Roger Fry
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Farm in the Green Mountains
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Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
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Prime of Life (1929-1944)
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Up Front
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The Second Sex
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War Years with Jeb Stuart
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South From Corregidor
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The Mask of Sanity
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The Little Locksmith
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I Saw Poland Betrayed: an American Ambassador Reports to the American People
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4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Coral Comes High: U.S. Marines and the Fight for Peleliu
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4.17 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Too Much Salt and Pepper
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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The Whole of Their Lives
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command (Volume I: Manassas to Malvern Hill)
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4.40 avg rating — 474 ratings
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The Snake Pit
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Clementine in the Kitchen: Modern Library Foods
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4.06 avg rating — 423 ratings
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How to Cook a Wolf
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50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
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4.19 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life
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The Roosevelt Myth
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Where Stands a Winged Sentry (Handheld World War 2 Classics Book 4)
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Dickens, Dali And Others: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic
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3.84 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
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Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 : Volume 2 of Mencken's Autobiography
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4.20 avg rating — 129 ratings
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We Shook the Family Tree
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The Proper Bostonians
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3.95 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Jungle is Neutral
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Ordeal of the Union, Vol 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-52
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4.38 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Culture Industry
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On The Tip of My Tongue
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4.86 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Joan of Arc: Her Story
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4.03 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Left Hand, Right Hand!
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3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Advance to Barbarism: The Development of Total Warfare from Sarajevo to Hiroshima
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A Distant Prospect
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The Strange Death of Franklin Roosevelt: A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty: America's Royal Family
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Memories of Old Montana
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Here Is New York
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Climax in Crete
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The Concept of Mind
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Trails I Rode
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A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water
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