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Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
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4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
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3.65 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Chicago's Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City
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3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Negroland
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3.62 avg rating — 7,930 ratings
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Avengers and Defenders: Glimpses of Chicago's Jewish Past
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
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3.87 avg rating — 540 ratings
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The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings
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God-Sized Dreams:: The Story of A Little Black Girl From The South Side Of Chicago
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3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Men of Mendel: Tales from Chicago's South Side and the Catholic School System of the 1960's
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol'niki Park to Chicago's South Side (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies)
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
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4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago's South Side to the World
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4.22 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
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Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago
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3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Chicago Days: Growing Up Absurd On The South Side
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio
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4.19 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Stump: My Way Out of Chicago's South Side
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
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3.97 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall
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3.97 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
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4.02 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration
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4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
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3.79 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Murder and Mayhem on Chicago's South Side
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3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines
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4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The 1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood on the Prairie
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Inside Mrs. B.'s Classroom : Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side
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3.97 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
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3.24 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
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3.87 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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Chicago Then and Now
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood (Glas, 21)
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3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Our America: Life And Death On The South Side Of Chicago
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4.30 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
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4.15 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919
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3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab
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3.44 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922
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3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago
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3.86 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox
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3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Old School Adventures from Englewood—South Side of Chicago
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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South Side Hitmen: The Story of the 1977 Chicago White Sox
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3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Depression Comes to the South Side: Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Black Experience on The South side of Chicago: F-A-T Family And Triumphs.
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley
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3.47 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940 (Culture, Labor, History, 10)
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women on Chicago's South Side
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4.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
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4.33 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago
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4.16 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Terminal Town: An Illustrated Guide to Chicago's Airports, Bus Depots, Train Stations, and Steamship Landings, 1939 - Present
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Last Is More: Mies, IBM, and the Transformation of Chicago
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side
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2.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater (New Black Studies Series)
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Literary Landscape (New Black Studies Series)
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3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
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4.21 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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3.85 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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4.49 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%
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3.79 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family
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3.63 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Panic in the Loop: Chicago's Banking Crisis of 1932
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
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3.59 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Chicago Business and Industry: From Fur Trade to E-Commerce
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
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4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
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3.66 avg rating — 3,405 ratings
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The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang
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3.69 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him
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4.22 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
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3.96 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
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4.16 avg rating — 2,706 ratings
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
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4.19 avg rating — 205 ratings
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The Green Hornet Streetcar Disaster
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4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks
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2.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age
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3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Duke Slater: Pioneering Black NFL Player and Judge
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
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4.45 avg rating — 2,827 ratings
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
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4.07 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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The Wagon and Other Stories from the City
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3.14 avg rating — 151 ratings
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