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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,719 ratings — published 2005
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 105,512 ratings — published 1970
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,992 ratings — published 1967
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,076,829 ratings — published 1960
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,085 ratings — published 2019
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,385 ratings — published 1971
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,492 ratings — published 2011
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,555 ratings — published 1980
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,098,478 ratings — published 1925
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,927,162 ratings — published 1937
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 4.45 — 25,344 ratings — published 2019
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 70,746 ratings — published 2010
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 114,664 ratings — published 2009
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,666 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as americas)
avg rating 4.48 — 121,300 ratings — published 2010
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as americas)
avg rating 4.31 — 341,746 ratings — published 1982
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as americas)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,378 ratings — published 1985
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,581 ratings — published 2017
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.94 — 559,395 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as americas)
avg rating 4.50 — 186,522 ratings — published 2013
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as americas)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,020,314 ratings — published 1939
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,484 ratings — published 2007
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,082 ratings — published 1986
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.14 — 466,078 ratings — published 2017
History of Bourbon (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,888 ratings — published 2019
The Mueller Report (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,111 ratings — published 2019
Cuba: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,663 ratings — published 2021
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,762,465 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,987,956 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,294,890 ratings — published 1963
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,081,175 ratings — published 2009
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.66 — 461,115 ratings — published 2020
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,687 ratings — published 2015
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,580 ratings — published 2014
Bolívar: American Liberator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,870 ratings — published 2013
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,355 ratings — published 2011
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.95 — 403,701 ratings — published 1989
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 456,650 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.28 — 769,189 ratings — published 1982
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,834 ratings — published 1977
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,574 ratings — published 2007
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,363,745 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,951,212 ratings — published 2018
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.97 — 248,418 ratings — published 1981
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,903 ratings — published 1938
The Dead Drink First (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,418 ratings — published 2019
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 879,087 ratings — published 2020
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.00 — 778,288 ratings — published 2003
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.45 — 700,647 ratings — published 1952
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.36 — 44,961 ratings — published 2000
“Komandoo Nicolas Kahima Kankiriho ('Kahima the Warrior') alizaliwa katika Wilaya ya Bushenyi, Ankole, kusini-magharibi mwa Uganda, Julai 24, 1954, mtoto wa tano kuzaliwa, katika familia ya watoto sita ya Nicodemas Kankiriho; mzee wa heshima wa Wabaima, aliyekuwa akisifika sana kwa uchungaji (wa mifugo) na msisitizo mkali wa ukiristo kwa watoto wake wote; hasa Kahima na Yebare, binti yake wa pekee, aliyekuwa wa mwisho kuzaliwa.
Kahima (futi 6 inchi 3 aliyekuwa akiongea Kinyankole, Kiswahili, Kiingereza na Kihispania kwa ufasaha), baada ya kutoka Uganda – kwa mafunzo ya mwanzo ya ukomandoo ya Kiisraeli – alikwenda Urusi na Korea ya Kaskazini ambako aliongeza ujuzi hadi kiwango cha juu kabisa; kabla ya kwenda Amerika ya Kusini, kama askari wa msituni wa vyama vya kisiasa visivyo rasmi vya magorila wa Kolombia.
Akiwa Kolombia, Kahima alikutana na Eduardo Chapa de Christopher (kiongozi wa zamani wa Kateli ya Diablos de Amazonas, Mashetani wa Amazoni, iliyokuwa ikivilinda vyama vya kisiasa vya magorila vya Americas) ambaye alimwajiri kama mlinzi binafsi na baadaye kama mlinzi binafsi wa Carlos Pulecio Alcántara – kiongozi wa kwanza wa Kateli ya Kolonia Santita. Alcántara alipouwawa, Kahima alihamia kwa Panthera Tigrisi – Kiongozi Mkuu wa Kolonia Santita.”
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Kahima (futi 6 inchi 3 aliyekuwa akiongea Kinyankole, Kiswahili, Kiingereza na Kihispania kwa ufasaha), baada ya kutoka Uganda – kwa mafunzo ya mwanzo ya ukomandoo ya Kiisraeli – alikwenda Urusi na Korea ya Kaskazini ambako aliongeza ujuzi hadi kiwango cha juu kabisa; kabla ya kwenda Amerika ya Kusini, kama askari wa msituni wa vyama vya kisiasa visivyo rasmi vya magorila wa Kolombia.
Akiwa Kolombia, Kahima alikutana na Eduardo Chapa de Christopher (kiongozi wa zamani wa Kateli ya Diablos de Amazonas, Mashetani wa Amazoni, iliyokuwa ikivilinda vyama vya kisiasa vya magorila vya Americas) ambaye alimwajiri kama mlinzi binafsi na baadaye kama mlinzi binafsi wa Carlos Pulecio Alcántara – kiongozi wa kwanza wa Kateli ya Kolonia Santita. Alcántara alipouwawa, Kahima alihamia kwa Panthera Tigrisi – Kiongozi Mkuu wa Kolonia Santita.”
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“Imagine. To have your father sitting down eating dinner or shining his shoes while watching TV. To have your front door blown off its hinges and the police rush in. To see your father in handcuffs, led away.”
― One Crazy Summer
― One Crazy Summer