Books by Journalists

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Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff 3.46 avg rating — 664 ratings
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A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League 3.96 avg rating — 4,478 ratings
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Nine Parts of Desire : The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Nine Parts of Desire : The Hidden World of Islamic Women 4.05 avg rating — 14,928 ratings
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Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives 3.73 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
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The Bottom of the Harbor
The Bottom of the Harbor 4.28 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Conspiracy of Fools
Conspiracy of Fools 4.20 avg rating — 6,530 ratings
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Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More from NPR's the Kitchen Sisters
Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More from NPR's the Kitchen Sisters 3.83 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Clearing the Air
Clearing the Air 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Zwischen den Fronten: Erlebte Weltgeschichte
Zwischen den Fronten: Erlebte Weltgeschichte 3.85 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Der Tod im Reisfeld: Dreißig Jahre Krieg in Indochina
Der Tod im Reisfeld: Dreißig Jahre Krieg in Indochina 4.16 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels
Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels 4.09 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation 4.08 avg rating — 25,638 ratings
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Leben mit Frankreich: Stationen eines halben Jahrhunderts
Leben mit Frankreich: Stationen eines halben Jahrhunderts 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Uncivil Liberties
Uncivil Liberties 3.94 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality
Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality 3.71 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Weltmacht im Treibsand: Bush gegen die Ayatollahs
Weltmacht im Treibsand: Bush gegen die Ayatollahs 4.07 avg rating — 59 ratings
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What Every Person Should Know About War
What Every Person Should Know About War 3.89 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Fatal Vision
Fatal Vision 4.12 avg rating — 24,565 ratings
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In Search of History
In Search of History 4.16 avg rating — 497 ratings
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No Facilities for Women
No Facilities for Women 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Dances with Devils: A Journalist's Search for Truth
Dances with Devils: A Journalist's Search for Truth 4.41 avg rating — 167 ratings
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A Brief History of Tomorrow
A Brief History of Tomorrow 3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen
Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Delusions of Grandeur
Delusions of Grandeur 3.38 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory 3.96 avg rating — 153 ratings
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We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
We Are Our Mothers' Daughters 3.67 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto
Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Balkanschimmen: een reis door de geschiedenis
Balkanschimmen: een reis door de geschiedenis 3.91 avg rating — 5,678 ratings
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Up with the Times
Up with the Times 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Ways of the Dead (Sully Carter #1)
The Ways of the Dead (Sully Carter #1) 3.66 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species
Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species 3.53 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen 3.87 avg rating — 189 ratings
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad 4.42 avg rating — 4,819 ratings
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station that Helped Bring Peace to the Congo
Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station that Helped Bring Peace to the Congo 3.91 avg rating — 91 ratings
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More than a Grain of Truth: The Official Biography of Gareth Jones
More than a Grain of Truth: The Official Biography of Gareth Jones 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom 4.42 avg rating — 7,196 ratings
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Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News
Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News 4.10 avg rating — 5,567 ratings
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Nomad, Nomad
Nomad, Nomad 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Undocumented Americans
The Undocumented Americans 4.38 avg rating — 25,074 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 4.36 avg rating — 14,155 ratings
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My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives 3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World 4.08 avg rating — 2,659 ratings
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Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys
Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Deadline: A Memoir
Deadline: A Memoir 3.80 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News 3.70 avg rating — 2,286 ratings
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Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?
Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? 3.69 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Capture or Kill: The Pursuit of the 9/11 Masterminds and the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Capture or Kill: The Pursuit of the 9/11 Masterminds and the Killing of Osama bin Laden 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life 3.68 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret
Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret 3.77 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper
Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper 4.28 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Next Big Thing: The Dalton Camp Lectures in Journalism
The Next Big Thing: The Dalton Camp Lectures in Journalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots 4.15 avg rating — 948 ratings
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A Day Like Today
A Day Like Today 3.97 avg rating — 372 ratings
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My Name is King Ying: One Girl’s Transpacific Quest of Resilience, Survival, and New World Dreams
My Name is King Ying: One Girl’s Transpacific Quest of Resilience, Survival, and New World Dreams 4.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela 4.12 avg rating — 985 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail 4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings
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In the Freud Archives
In the Freud Archives 4.21 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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The Generous Years: Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood
The Generous Years: Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water 3.94 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Pilgrims Rest
Pilgrims Rest 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century 3.78 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Vannacht is de wereld gek geworden
Vannacht is de wereld gek geworden 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Press Gang
Press Gang it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War 4.34 avg rating — 13,219 ratings
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Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload 3.70 avg rating — 403 ratings
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The Russians
The Russians 4.02 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti 4.14 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,302 ratings
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Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey
Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey 3.80 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Fatal Impact
The Fatal Impact 3.99 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe 3.98 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Natasha's Story
Natasha's Story 3.80 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Backstory: Inside the Business of News
Backstory: Inside the Business of News 3.50 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw
Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw 3.90 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
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All Those Mornings . . . At the Post: The 20th Century in Sports from Famed Washington Post: Columnist Shirley Povich
All Those Mornings . . . At the Post: The 20th Century in Sports from Famed Washington Post: Columnist Shirley Povich 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators 4.40 avg rating — 101,067 ratings
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat 3.80 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas 4.18 avg rating — 528 ratings
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters 4.02 avg rating — 2,604 ratings
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Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption 3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings
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A Measure of Danger
A Measure of Danger 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Who Killed Cbs?: The Undoing of America's Number One News Network
Who Killed Cbs?: The Undoing of America's Number One News Network 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time 3.87 avg rating — 41,529 ratings
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya 4.31 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 4.46 avg rating — 20,860 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Some Other Rainbow
Some Other Rainbow 4.03 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America 3.67 avg rating — 504 ratings
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It 4.23 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media 3.86 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
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Een tipje van de sluier: islam voor beginners
Een tipje van de sluier: islam voor beginners 3.49 avg rating — 421 ratings
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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports 4.20 avg rating — 4,131 ratings
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Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League
Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League 3.58 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy 4.18 avg rating — 3,731 ratings
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Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System 4.20 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak 4.35 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire
Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire 3.52 avg rating — 40 ratings
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De Nieuwsfabriek
De Nieuwsfabriek 3.68 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time
Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time 3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
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American Stories
American Stories 4.04 avg rating — 142 ratings
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