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The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman: Wisdom to Live the Life You Crave
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4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
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3.88 avg rating — 1,879 ratings
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life
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4.34 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Biography
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4.03 avg rating — 2,371 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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3.87 avg rating — 2,493 ratings
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
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4.27 avg rating — 2,313 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
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4.21 avg rating — 2,759 ratings
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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
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4.25 avg rating — 2,028 ratings
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
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4.07 avg rating — 2,299 ratings
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
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4.09 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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Bismarck: A Life
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3.76 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
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4.29 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
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Dickens
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3.89 avg rating — 2,370 ratings
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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
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4.26 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
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Before She was Harriet
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4.49 avg rating — 2,445 ratings
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The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
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4.22 avg rating — 2,150 ratings
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Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
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4.24 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
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4.10 avg rating — 1,768 ratings
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The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown
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4.20 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
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Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles
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4.33 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
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4.32 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
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Sontag: Her Life and Work
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4.23 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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4.02 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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4.08 avg rating — 1,815 ratings
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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
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3.77 avg rating — 2,231 ratings
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
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4.34 avg rating — 1,668 ratings
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The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
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4.37 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
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Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
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4.16 avg rating — 2,137 ratings
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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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4.08 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
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To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson
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4.51 avg rating — 2,412 ratings
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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,536 ratings
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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
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4.06 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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Huey Long
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4.24 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
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3.56 avg rating — 2,479 ratings
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Victoria: A Life
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3.77 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
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3.64 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
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Eleni
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4.43 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
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Prime of Life (1929-1944)
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4.18 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
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Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
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4.12 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
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4.04 avg rating — 2,309 ratings
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The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
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3.79 avg rating — 2,390 ratings
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Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
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4.05 avg rating — 2,525 ratings
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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3.66 avg rating — 2,154 ratings
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The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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My Dog Tulip
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3.28 avg rating — 2,343 ratings
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Boone: A Biography
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4.01 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine
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4.34 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
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3.80 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11
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3.85 avg rating — 1,918 ratings
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Mark Twain: A Life
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4.06 avg rating — 1,933 ratings
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One Man's Meat
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4.27 avg rating — 2,210 ratings
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Books: A Memoir
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3.23 avg rating — 2,315 ratings
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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
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3.71 avg rating — 2,399 ratings
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The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
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3.78 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
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4.13 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
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I Grew My Boobs in China (Sihpromatum #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
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Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
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4.07 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South
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4.49 avg rating — 1,725 ratings
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
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3.88 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
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4.23 avg rating — 3,537 ratings
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
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4.31 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
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Indira
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4.06 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life
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4.13 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
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4.26 avg rating — 2,735 ratings
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A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day
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4.28 avg rating — 2,028 ratings
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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
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3.83 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
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3.20 avg rating — 1,814 ratings
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Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
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2.80 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
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4.22 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
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A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption
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4.51 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
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3.81 avg rating — 1,948 ratings
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The Lives of John Lennon
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3.35 avg rating — 1,731 ratings
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
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4.04 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
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3.74 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
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3.63 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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Chanel and Her World
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3.69 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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Lenin: A Biography
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3.84 avg rating — 1,886 ratings
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Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
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3.68 avg rating — 2,270 ratings
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America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
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3.94 avg rating — 2,127 ratings
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
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4.04 avg rating — 1,821 ratings
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
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3.62 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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3.87 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
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Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
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4.34 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
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Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief―A Daring Memoir of Audacious Heists, Defiance of Society's Norms, and Glamorous Legacy
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3.84 avg rating — 2,650 ratings
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
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4.12 avg rating — 1,944 ratings
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Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: the Inside Story
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3.82 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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For Those I Loved
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4.40 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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4.21 avg rating — 2,506 ratings
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Witness
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4.38 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life (South Dakota Biography Series)
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4.08 avg rating — 1,688 ratings
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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
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4.06 avg rating — 1,720 ratings
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The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
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4.12 avg rating — 2,138 ratings
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The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ
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4.08 avg rating — 2,633 ratings
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That Quail, Robert: The Acclaimed Story of an Abandoned Chick from Cape Cod That Won the Nation's Heart
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4.34 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
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4.07 avg rating — 2,464 ratings
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The Meaning of Hitler
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4.25 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years
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3.62 avg rating — 2,186 ratings
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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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4.08 avg rating — 2,483 ratings
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50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
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4.04 avg rating — 2,526 ratings
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Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
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4.17 avg rating — 2,034 ratings
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