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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 6,454 ratings — published 2014
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 13,455 ratings — published 2011
Locomotive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,211 ratings — published 2013
So You Want to Be President? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 8,599 ratings — published 2000
Snowflake Bentley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 16,674 ratings — published 1998
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 21,452 ratings — published 2012
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,982 ratings — published 2003
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 482,611 ratings — published 2012
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book)
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avg rating 4.35 — 555,361 ratings — published 1969
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 12,886 ratings — published 2001
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,721 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 907,350 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 883,521 ratings — published 2008
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,293 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,289,032 ratings — published 1947
Actual Size (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,650 ratings — published 2004
We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 4,111 ratings — published 2008
My Five Senses Big Book (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,087 ratings — published 1962
Lincoln: A Photobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 10,999 ratings — published 1987
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 16,790 ratings — published 2007
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 628,494 ratings — published 2005
Inside the Human Body (The Magic School Bus, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 34,753 ratings — published 1989
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,307,980 ratings — published 2011
Bones: Skeletons and How They Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 946 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 15,570 ratings — published 2003
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 925 ratings — published 2009
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 2,612 ratings — published 2009
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 13,026 ratings — published 1995
Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 405 ratings — published 2008
Cow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 77 ratings — published 1997
The Tiny Seed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13,323 ratings — published 1970
An Egg Is Quiet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as informational)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,438 ratings — published 2006
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,386,352 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 235,251 ratings — published 2017
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 14,297 ratings — published 2005
Me... Jane (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 13,761 ratings — published 2011
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,449 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 821,876 ratings — published 2010
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 864,163 ratings — published 2000
Parrots Over Puerto Rico (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,867 ratings — published 2013
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,427 ratings — published 2010
Giant Squid (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,580 ratings — published 2015
What If There Were No Bees?: A Book About the Grassland Ecosystem (Food Chain Reactions)
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avg rating 4.23 — 185 ratings — published 2010
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 608,038 ratings — published 2011
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,266 ratings — published 2015
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,710 ratings — published 2014
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 210,761 ratings — published 2024
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 572,942 ratings — published 2012
Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,502 ratings — published 2006
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 172,798 ratings — published 1989
“I picked this up again because every time I enter a really old building with a spiral staircase I remember this quote from this exact book about why spiral staircases spiral clockwise, and I don't know if it's true or apocryphal or just plain fiction -- I suppose I could look it up -- but I just love that it's permanently engrained in my memory at this point:
"That stairway would be a narrow spiral, set to the left-hand side and twisting the right as it ascended. In that way, a right-handed swordsman climbing the stairs would be at a disadvantage to a right-handed defender. An attacker would have to expose all of his body in order to use his sword, while the defender could strike with only his right side exposed. It was standard design for the castle tower.”
― The Siege of Macindaw
"That stairway would be a narrow spiral, set to the left-hand side and twisting the right as it ascended. In that way, a right-handed swordsman climbing the stairs would be at a disadvantage to a right-handed defender. An attacker would have to expose all of his body in order to use his sword, while the defender could strike with only his right side exposed. It was standard design for the castle tower.”
― The Siege of Macindaw
“Falsafa ya Usawa kwa Watu na Vitu Vyote ya Yin-Yang ya Kichina ni falsafa inayotumiwa na Wachina, kujifunza sanaa ya mapigano na kutengeneza madawa ya asili, na magaidi wa madawa ya kulevya wa Amerika ya Kusini na Kaskazini kusaidia watu waliosahauliwa na serikali zao.”
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