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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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3.76 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
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3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
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4.28 avg rating — 57 ratings
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John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
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4.33 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Looking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail
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The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships (Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports)
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
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3.65 avg rating — 207 ratings
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God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
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3.91 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
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4.26 avg rating — 3,496 ratings
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Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator
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3.66 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
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4.23 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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4.37 avg rating — 744 ratings
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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4.24 avg rating — 6,478 ratings
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Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother
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3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy And the Protocols of the Elders Of Zion
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3.81 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film
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3.78 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
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3.91 avg rating — 2,477 ratings
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
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4.28 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning
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4.18 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
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Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
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3.46 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Old West Showdown: Two Authors Wrangle over the Truth about the Mythic Old West
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
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3.86 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
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3.32 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
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3.91 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die
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4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
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3.19 avg rating — 151 ratings
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“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
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4.11 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
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3.60 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History: The Truth from Colonial Times to World War II
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3.53 avg rating — 658 ratings
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The myth of the Appalachian brain drain;: A case study of West Virginia,
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THE MYTH OF SOUTHERN EXCEPTIONALISM
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3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang
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4.31 avg rating — 439 ratings
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
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3.40 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
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3.98 avg rating — 281 ratings
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How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
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3.50 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
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3.49 avg rating — 548 ratings
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Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
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3.62 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
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3.70 avg rating — 627 ratings
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John Brown in Memory and Myth
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
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4.14 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
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An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
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4.34 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
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4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
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One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title
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Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed
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3.35 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
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4.07 avg rating — 5,825 ratings
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Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons: Challenging Conventional Wisdom About Nuclear Deterrence, War, and 21st Century Power
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3.67 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
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3.90 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
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3.71 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
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3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series)
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3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song
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3.71 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
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3.89 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?: The Truth Behind Old Wives' Tales
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3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History
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3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
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4.29 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
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3.64 avg rating — 97 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 18,484 ratings
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
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4.28 avg rating — 8,334 ratings
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Paying the Land
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4.33 avg rating — 3,435 ratings
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Palestine
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4.26 avg rating — 22,404 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,697 ratings
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
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3.68 avg rating — 216 ratings
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League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
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4.19 avg rating — 4,752 ratings
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
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4.20 avg rating — 7,597 ratings
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Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
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4.14 avg rating — 618 ratings
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We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
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4.01 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
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4.31 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
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Myths About Suicide
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Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
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3.79 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises
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3.97 avg rating — 775 ratings
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Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
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3.75 avg rating — 692 ratings
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Tell Me When It's Over: An Insider's Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World
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4.30 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them
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3.64 avg rating — 384 ratings
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The Real Food Grocery Guide: Navigate the Grocery Store, Ditch Artificial and Unsafe Ingredients, Bust Nutritional Myths, and Select the Healthiest Foods Possible
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 11,606 ratings
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Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
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4.16 avg rating — 3,650 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 11,654 ratings
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His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
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4.35 avg rating — 3,039 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 47,083 ratings
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
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3.94 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 17,074 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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4.16 avg rating — 4,321 ratings
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
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