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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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3.65 avg rating — 188,290 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
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4.34 avg rating — 139,190 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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4.13 avg rating — 284,438 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.33 avg rating — 268,770 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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4.23 avg rating — 5,247 ratings
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All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)
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4.33 avg rating — 76,435 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
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3.30 avg rating — 8,963 ratings
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Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
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3.74 avg rating — 37,498 ratings
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All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)
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4.42 avg rating — 32,952 ratings
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The Lord God Made Them All
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4.43 avg rating — 26,235 ratings
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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3.83 avg rating — 79,257 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.27 avg rating — 46,517 ratings
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Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
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3.53 avg rating — 2,814 ratings
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Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
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3.52 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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3.94 avg rating — 42,308 ratings
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
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3.53 avg rating — 13,954 ratings
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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4.18 avg rating — 68,419 ratings
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
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3.89 avg rating — 2,907 ratings
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
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3.55 avg rating — 13,085 ratings
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Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
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3.57 avg rating — 21,718 ratings
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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3.87 avg rating — 96,286 ratings
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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3.90 avg rating — 24,160 ratings
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Bossypants
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3.96 avg rating — 962,791 ratings
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
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3.20 avg rating — 1,809 ratings
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,122 ratings
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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4.20 avg rating — 28,719 ratings
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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life As an Animal Surgeon
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3.92 avg rating — 5,424 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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3.66 avg rating — 341,369 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
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4.01 avg rating — 13,476 ratings
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Somebody Else's Kids
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4.28 avg rating — 6,500 ratings
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As the Matzo Ball Turns
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4.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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3.99 avg rating — 4,060 ratings
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Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs
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4.12 avg rating — 1,367 ratings
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A Year in Provence
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3.99 avg rating — 73,257 ratings
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And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
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3.67 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States
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3.61 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.24 avg rating — 20,870 ratings
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Dangerous Minds
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3.91 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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Here If You Need Me
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,861 ratings
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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3.95 avg rating — 7,197 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.07 avg rating — 87,936 ratings
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Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
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4.04 avg rating — 2,303 ratings
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Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
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3.73 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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3.76 avg rating — 34,717 ratings
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Musical Chairs
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4.18 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.19 avg rating — 82,027 ratings
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Personal History
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4.08 avg rating — 23,223 ratings
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Living History
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3.75 avg rating — 32,839 ratings
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Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
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3.67 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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Post Office
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3.94 avg rating — 118,545 ratings
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Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
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3.70 avg rating — 1,826 ratings
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Below Stairs
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3.57 avg rating — 13,360 ratings
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Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
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3.85 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
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Catch Me If You Can
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4.04 avg rating — 57,439 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.14 avg rating — 50,665 ratings
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Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
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3.57 avg rating — 344 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.15 avg rating — 181,572 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
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3.58 avg rating — 5,046 ratings
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
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4.31 avg rating — 2,263 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.11 avg rating — 111,168 ratings
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
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4.08 avg rating — 11,658 ratings
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Population: 485 : Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
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3.93 avg rating — 5,407 ratings
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Nurse
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3.77 avg rating — 606 ratings
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Madam Secretary: A Memoir
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4.10 avg rating — 8,251 ratings
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Don't Eat This Book
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3.70 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks
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3.97 avg rating — 4,077 ratings
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
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3.88 avg rating — 3,237 ratings
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Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows
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3.57 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier
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3.57 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Clapton: The Autobiography
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3.82 avg rating — 26,623 ratings
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Private Battles and The Khaki Cage
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
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3.95 avg rating — 4,072 ratings
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Blue Blood
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3.69 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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Shake Hands with the Devil
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4.23 avg rating — 12,240 ratings
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The Man Who Ate Everything
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3.87 avg rating — 8,948 ratings
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More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
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3.77 avg rating — 2,052 ratings
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A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life
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3.89 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler
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3.39 avg rating — 732 ratings
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Uncommon Carriers
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3.97 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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4.48 avg rating — 23,329 ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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4.11 avg rating — 9,912 ratings
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In Search of History
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4.16 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Just Another Kid
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4.23 avg rating — 5,591 ratings
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Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
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3.05 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Audition: A Memoir
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3.74 avg rating — 6,266 ratings
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Up the Down Staircase
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3.95 avg rating — 9,726 ratings
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Out of the Frying Pan: A Chef's Memoir of Hot Kitchens, Single Motherhood, and the Family Meal
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3.38 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Murphy's Boy
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4.15 avg rating — 5,035 ratings
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Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
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3.75 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
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4.12 avg rating — 835 ratings
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
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4.16 avg rating — 4,435 ratings
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
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3.93 avg rating — 8,731 ratings
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My Turn to Make the Tea
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3.63 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Career Mastery: Proven Strategies for Achieving Success in Your Profession
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4.69 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 80,294 ratings
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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3.51 avg rating — 4,197 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day
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4.06 avg rating — 23,296 ratings
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Murder on the Home Front: A True Story of Morgues, Murderers, and Mysteries During the London Blitz
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3.62 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 28,225 ratings
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