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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 164,606 ratings
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Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: Rediscovering Life in an American Village
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3.75 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
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4.23 avg rating — 326 ratings
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An American Summer
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4.08 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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4.05 avg rating — 9,313 ratings
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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4.32 avg rating — 2,753 ratings
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In The Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time
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3.77 avg rating — 982 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,533 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
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Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School
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3.66 avg rating — 330 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
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4.14 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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The Middle Of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community – Personal Stories of Hope, Endurance, and the Power of Family
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4.08 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
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3.97 avg rating — 4,500 ratings
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On the Couch: Great American Stories About Therapy
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3.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Bad Land: An American Romance
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3.95 avg rating — 1,877 ratings
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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure
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3.80 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
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3.89 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
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3.77 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
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3.89 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
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3.86 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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School Of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School – A Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigation of Student Pressure and Educational Competition
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3.59 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 74,687 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,195 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,716 ratings
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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3.90 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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One Gay American
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3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Secret Sex Lives: A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
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3.21 avg rating — 159 ratings
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STILL LIFE WITH RICE
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4.30 avg rating — 1,467 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
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3.94 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
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4.01 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
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American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks
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3.74 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
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3.77 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Lexicon of Real American Food
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3.68 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust
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4.17 avg rating — 203 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
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3.84 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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An American Bride in Kabul
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3.37 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food
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3.59 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
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3.61 avg rating — 26,708 ratings
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How to Be an American Housewife
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3.65 avg rating — 13,643 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
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3.80 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life
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3.66 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations
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3.54 avg rating — 166 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Life Al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian-American Family
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3.73 avg rating — 90 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life
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3.34 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Pox: An American History
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3.68 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Great Americans
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam
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3.73 avg rating — 395 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian-American Odyssey
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3.68 avg rating — 188 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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4.43 avg rating — 9,995 ratings
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Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
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4.12 avg rating — 693 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 88,879 ratings
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The Magnificent Seven: The Authorized Story of American Gold
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3.90 avg rating — 100 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Growing Up Native American
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3.79 avg rating — 85 ratings
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rated it 1 star
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Our Parents' Lives
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3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Growing Up Asian American
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3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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My Suburban Shtetl
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3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
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3.88 avg rating — 841 ratings
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Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
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3.75 avg rating — 106 ratings
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All the Fishes Come Home to Roost
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3.72 avg rating — 814 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
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4.09 avg rating — 4,311 ratings
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Canal Zone Daughter: An American Childhood in Panama
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4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
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4.06 avg rating — 5,083 ratings
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Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
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3.84 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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American Dervish
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3.71 avg rating — 9,453 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Book of Unknown Americans
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3.89 avg rating — 46,139 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Songs of Three Islands: A Story of Mental Illness in an Iconic American Family
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3.36 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-occupied Philippines
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4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
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3.96 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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3.95 avg rating — 11,161 ratings
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I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience
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4.02 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Immigrant Voices: Twenty-four Narratives on Becoming an American
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3.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
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3.98 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana
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3.54 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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American Gypsy
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3.78 avg rating — 809 ratings
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
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3.73 avg rating — 923 ratings
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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
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3.84 avg rating — 8,383 ratings
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Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia
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3.44 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian-American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures
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3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
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3.34 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Maria Tallchief American Ballerina
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods
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3.62 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Three Farms: Making Milk, Meat, And Money From The American Soil
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775
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3.63 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Inscrutable Americans
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3.27 avg rating — 6,854 ratings
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Queen Of The Bremen: The True Story Of An American Child Trapped In Germany During World War II
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4.35 avg rating — 157 ratings
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A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
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3.94 avg rating — 185 ratings
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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
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3.90 avg rating — 2,554 ratings
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
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4.31 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The First Session With African Americans: A Step by Step Guide
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Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
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Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
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4.27 avg rating — 386 ratings
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American Widow
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3.37 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
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3.85 avg rating — 756 ratings
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The private life of the American teenager: The Norman/Harris report
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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North American Backyard Birdwatching for All Seasons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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American Knees
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3.44 avg rating — 333 ratings
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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Birds
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The Americans
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4.19 avg rating — 13,427 ratings
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