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All That Glitters (A Jake & Laura Mystery, #2)
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Michael Murphy (Goodreads Author)
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Wings in the Dark (A Jake & Laura Mystery #3)
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Michael Murphy (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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M.K. Asante (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 3,072 ratings
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Good Morning, Mr Mandela
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Last Words (Coleridge Taylor Mystery #1)
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Rich Zahradnik (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Collected Stories
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4.28 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Lucky Us
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3.22 avg rating — 17,965 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 111,855 ratings
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S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
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3.97 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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We Are Not Ourselves
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Matthew Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 30,135 ratings
score: 197,
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California
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Edan Lepucki (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 20,421 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)
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score: 195,
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The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 227,600 ratings
score: 189,
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Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, The Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
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3.93 avg rating — 329 ratings
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What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women's Movement
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3.82 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Robicheaux (Dave Robicheaux #21)
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4.21 avg rating — 8,815 ratings
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Doctorow: Collected Stories
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3.73 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt
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Andrea Bobotis (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 2,977 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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4.38 avg rating — 30,757 ratings
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,812,746 ratings
score: 161,
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
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3.95 avg rating — 13,872 ratings
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Salvation Lake (Leo Waterman, #9)
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4.21 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
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3.97 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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The War on Drugs: A Failed Experiment
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4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings
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White Houses
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3.34 avg rating — 20,031 ratings
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Napoleon: A Life
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4.24 avg rating — 27,766 ratings
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The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 14,500 ratings
score: 135,
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Pleasantville (Jay Porter Series, 2)
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3.96 avg rating — 3,497 ratings
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The Trouble with the Truth
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3.62 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Morium
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S.J. Hermann (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Unexpected Eden (Eden, #1)
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Rhenna Morgan (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Her Master Match
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Sandra S. Kerns (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Lost in Wonderland (The Twisted and the Brave, #1)
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Nicky Peacock (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Life Unplanned (A Life Series)
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Patty Seitz (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 99,
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In the Dark (The Cities Below, #1)
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Jen Colly (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Secret of the Widow Mulvane: A Man for Clair (Mystery Loves Romance #2)
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 109,636 ratings
score: 99,
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Gods of Howl Mountain
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Taylor Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 2,998 ratings
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Soul Searching: Soul Searching Poems and Reflections
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Shaheen Darr (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 98,
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Through The Veil (#1)
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Christi Snow (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 120 ratings
score: 98,
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The Night Visitor
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Dianne Emley (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 241 ratings
score: 98,
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Himself
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Jess Kidd (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 14,889 ratings
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Reagan's Ashes
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Jim Heskett (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Beauty's Beast
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Amanda Ashley (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 992 ratings
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Never Have I Ever
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Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 57,504 ratings
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The Lieutenant Don't Know: One Marine's Story of Warfare and Combat Logistics in Afghanistan
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Jeffrey Clement (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 191 ratings
score: 96,
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Prophecy of the Seven Bottles
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Scott Troy Kovarik (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 96,
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Ten Steps to Nanette
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4.46 avg rating — 16,417 ratings
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You're Getting Married Soon... Now What?
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Eeva Lancaster (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Wolf
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3.58 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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A Book of Bones (Charlie Parker #17)
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John Connolly (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 6,385 ratings
score: 94,
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Small Great Things
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 431,201 ratings
score: 93,
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The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion
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4.57 avg rating — 3,363 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 157,577 ratings
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
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Hannah Tinti (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 17,521 ratings
score: 90,
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The Widow of Wall Street
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Randy Susan Meyers (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,802 ratings
score: 89,
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The Girl from Venice
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3.42 avg rating — 8,749 ratings
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The Reckless Oath We Made
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Bryn Greenwood (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 14,372 ratings
score: 88,
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Richard Nixon: The Life
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John A. Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 3,457 ratings
score: 87,
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The Island Dwellers: Stories
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3.94 avg rating — 345 ratings
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A Permanent Member of the Family
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3.61 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
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4.38 avg rating — 2,375 ratings
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The Animators
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Kayla Rae Whitaker (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 12,434 ratings
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Darktown (Darktown, #1)
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Thomas Mullen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 8,949 ratings
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A Swollen Red Sun
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3.68 avg rating — 887 ratings
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town
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Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 5,724 ratings
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The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
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3.92 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Finding Dorothy
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Elizabeth Letts (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 34,586 ratings
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The Fortunes of Jaded Women
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Carolyn Huynh (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 18,548 ratings
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Call Your Daughter Home
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Deb Spera (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 43,371 ratings
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The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs
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Janet Peery (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Violeta
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 104,516 ratings
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The Unquiet Grave (Ballad #12)
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Sharyn McCrumb (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 3,096 ratings
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Harlem Shuffle
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 79,543 ratings
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The Standard Grand
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Jay Baron Nicorvo (Goodreads Author)
3.08 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Matchmaker's Gift
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Lynda Cohen Loigman (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 23,081 ratings
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Britt-Marie Was Here
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 194,307 ratings
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Musical Chairs
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Amy Poeppel (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 9,073 ratings
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Two Nights in Lisbon
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Chris Pavone (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 38,018 ratings
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Inland
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Téa Obreht (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 13,755 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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Christina Thompson (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 6,922 ratings
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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
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The Grammarians
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Cathleen Schine (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 8,780 ratings
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The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
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The Weight of This World
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David Joy (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
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Adam Makos (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 6,592 ratings
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Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
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4.28 avg rating — 8,862 ratings
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Six Million Accusers: Catching Adolf Eichmann
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D. Lawrence-Young (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Last Word
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
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Helen Thorpe (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
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The Fighters
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Pickard County Atlas
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Chris Harding Thornton (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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The Water Dancer
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Miller's Valley
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
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The Roanoke Girls
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Amy Engel (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 34,690 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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A Dancer in the Dust
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
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