Books to Broaden My Brain

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,896 ratings
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Seasons: Desert Sketches
Seasons: Desert Sketches 4.40 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,534 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,301 ratings
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires 4.14 avg rating — 6,318 ratings
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American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power
American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power 3.58 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia 3.91 avg rating — 3,793 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,489 ratings
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Understanding Movies
Understanding Movies 3.85 avg rating — 852 ratings
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Deconstructing Organized Crime: An Historical and Theoretical Study
Deconstructing Organized Crime: An Historical and Theoretical Study 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers
Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers
by: Gus Russo
3.96 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Tetris: The Games People Play
Tetris: The Games People Play 3.80 avg rating — 3,464 ratings
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She of the Mountains
She of the Mountains 4.06 avg rating — 3,359 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death 4.30 avg rating — 45,191 ratings
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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies 3.78 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move 3.88 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,174 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,203 ratings
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States 4.28 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,717 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating — 19,192 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating — 27,084 ratings
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American Indian Myths and Legends
American Indian Myths and Legends 4.08 avg rating — 5,376 ratings
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
by: John Ehle
4.13 avg rating — 4,467 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,221 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,688 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,188 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time 4.14 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West 4.02 avg rating — 737 ratings
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future 3.89 avg rating — 11,884 ratings
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To 4.13 avg rating — 25,501 ratings
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The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating — 42,955 ratings
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Overview: A New Perspective of Earth
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth 4.62 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World 4.06 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference 4.26 avg rating — 275 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 4.07 avg rating — 118,656 ratings
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Lighting the World: Transforming our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone
Lighting the World: Transforming our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone 3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal 4.08 avg rating — 679 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,335 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,744 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,970 ratings
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Punishment and Inequality in America
Punishment and Inequality in America 4.09 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,625 ratings
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Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations 4.02 avg rating — 174 ratings
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How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts 4.01 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 ratings
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,442 ratings
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea 4.09 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties 3.95 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment
Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment 4.50 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Mystic Approaches
Mystic Approaches 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth 4.10 avg rating — 9,586 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,058 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,230 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,188 ratings
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West 4.06 avg rating — 818 ratings
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra 3.77 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout 3.97 avg rating — 4,539 ratings
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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors 4.06 avg rating — 956 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit 3.90 avg rating — 82,173 ratings
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The California Field Atlas
The California Field Atlas 4.47 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Body: A Guide for Occupants 4.31 avg rating — 95,292 ratings
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Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America 4.14 avg rating — 1,943 ratings
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The Lost Words
The Lost Words 4.49 avg rating — 6,477 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Glaciers
The Secret Lives of Glaciers 3.76 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Erosion: Essays of Undoing 4.25 avg rating — 2,125 ratings
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The Undocumented Americans
The Undocumented Americans 4.38 avg rating — 25,072 ratings
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 4.19 avg rating — 43,077 ratings
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To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret 3.94 avg rating — 22,498 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
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Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells 4.10 avg rating — 995 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years 3.90 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare 3.98 avg rating — 1,595 ratings
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Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA 3.99 avg rating — 490 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,786 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World 4.06 avg rating — 58,655 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival 4.05 avg rating — 4,360 ratings
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Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees 4.09 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
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A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration 4.07 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by: Rob Dunn
4.20 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness 3.94 avg rating — 57,058 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man 4.36 avg rating — 8,859 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
The Genius of Birds 4.04 avg rating — 13,007 ratings
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The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain 4.28 avg rating — 8,436 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Underland: A Deep Time Journey 4.23 avg rating — 20,159 ratings
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The Solace of Open Spaces
The Solace of Open Spaces 4.11 avg rating — 7,205 ratings
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This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes
This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes 4.03 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback 3.93 avg rating — 17,208 ratings
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A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe 3.88 avg rating — 885 ratings
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers 3.81 avg rating — 48,970 ratings
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I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity 4.32 avg rating — 7,402 ratings
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back 3.95 avg rating — 13,681 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,625 ratings
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story 4.43 avg rating — 98,760 ratings
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History) 4.26 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story of the Refugee Crisis
Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story of the Refugee Crisis 4.28 avg rating — 2,515 ratings