Scripps College Alum and Faculty Authors

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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire 3.72 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia 3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media 4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope 4.11 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
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Boy at the Window
Boy at the Window 4.37 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (American Crossroads) (Volume 42)
Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (American Crossroads) (Volume 42) 4.13 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Avian Gospels, Book I
The Avian Gospels, Book I
by: Adam Novy
3.87 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Avian Gospels, Book II
The Avian Gospels, Book II
by: Adam Novy
4.07 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush 4.09 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Warrior
Warrior 4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Merry Sorrows (Un)Happy Endings: Fairy Tales for Our Time
Merry Sorrows (Un)Happy Endings: Fairy Tales for Our Time 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America 4.04 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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All My Edens: a Gardener's Memoir
All My Edens: a Gardener's Memoir
by: Pat Welsh
4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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East (East, #1)
East (East, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 46,252 ratings
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Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media
Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Secrets of My Sex
Secrets of My Sex 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present 4.23 avg rating — 6,454 ratings
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Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel
Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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100 Games and Activities for the Introductory Foreign Language Classroom
100 Games and Activities for the Introductory Foreign Language Classroom 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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They Could Have Named Her Anything
They Could Have Named Her Anything 3.05 avg rating — 2,945 ratings
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Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints
Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Prudence
Prudence 3.21 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity
Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Caucasia
Caucasia 4.08 avg rating — 10,078 ratings
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Under the Feet of Jesus
Under the Feet of Jesus 3.62 avg rating — 3,867 ratings
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You Are Free
You Are Free 3.59 avg rating — 794 ratings
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The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: US-European Relations after Iraq
The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: US-European Relations after Iraq 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Symptomatic
Symptomatic 3.39 avg rating — 701 ratings
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States, Banks, and Markets: Mexico's Path to Financial Liberalization in Comparative Perspective
States, Banks, and Markets: Mexico's Path to Financial Liberalization in Comparative Perspective 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History 3.84 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004
Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter 3.84 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
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Standard English and the Politics of Language
Standard English and the Politics of Language 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader
The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells 3.51 avg rating — 13,820 ratings
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An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
by: Lara Deeb
3.88 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
The Confessions of Max Tivoli 3.69 avg rating — 7,624 ratings
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The Story of a Marriage
The Story of a Marriage 3.64 avg rating — 8,733 ratings
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Stone Conservation: An Overview of Current Research
Stone Conservation: An Overview of Current Research really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Path of Minor Planets
The Path of Minor Planets 3.47 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel
Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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How It Was for Me: Stories
How It Was for Me: Stories 3.85 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution (Pitt Latin American Series, 353)
The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution (Pitt Latin American Series, 353) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Le Notre's Gardens
Le Notre's Gardens 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Loneliness of Angels
The Loneliness of Angels 4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader
Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women
Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I
Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile
Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition
The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Spirit of Haiti (City Colours series)
Spirit of Haiti (City Colours series) 4.46 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Modernism after Wagner
Modernism after Wagner 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Scorpion's Claw
The Scorpion's Claw really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily
Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily 4.11 avg rating — 81 ratings
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From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Changing Realities of Work and Family: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Blackwell/Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series)
The Changing Realities of Work and Family: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Blackwell/Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Lynching in the West: 1850-1935
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Satire in an Age of Realism (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 72)
Satire in an Age of Realism (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 72) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time
We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time 3.73 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide
Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide
by: Pat Welsh
4.40 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Missing Persons: A Memoir
Missing Persons: A Memoir 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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''Un paese di bastardi'' Rootlessness, myth and identity in Cesare Pavese.
''Un paese di bastardi'' Rootlessness, myth and identity in Cesare Pavese. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare
The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Bridging the Atlantic: Toward a Reassessment of Iberian and Latin American Cultural Ties
Bridging the Atlantic: Toward a Reassessment of Iberian and Latin American Cultural Ties 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Insomniac
Insomniac 3.89 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference
Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism
Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776-1863
Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776-1863 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition
Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens
Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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HarperCollins College Outline History of Philosophy (HARPERCOLLINS COLLEGE OUTLINE SERIES)
HarperCollins College Outline History of Philosophy (HARPERCOLLINS COLLEGE OUTLINE SERIES) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Laughing till it hurts: Tragic relief in Shakespeare's middle comedies.
Laughing till it hurts: Tragic relief in Shakespeare's middle comedies. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Moths and Other Stories
The Moths and Other Stories 4.04 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Their Dogs Came with Them
Their Dogs Came with Them 3.76 avg rating — 468 ratings
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God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry
God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Masks Outrageous and Austere: Culture, Psyche, and Persona in Modern Women Poets
Masks Outrageous and Austere: Culture, Psyche, and Persona in Modern Women Poets really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Translation of Dr Apelles: A Love Story
The Translation of Dr Apelles: A Love Story 3.66 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life 3.91 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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The Hiawatha
The Hiawatha 3.72 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Native American Fiction: A User's Manual
Native American Fiction: A User's Manual 3.76 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Little
Little 3.60 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Girl Rearing
Girl Rearing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Maps to Anywhere
Maps to Anywhere really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Dragon Prince (Dragon Prince, #1)
Dragon Prince (Dragon Prince, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 16,625 ratings
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Stronghold (Dragon Star, #1)
Stronghold (Dragon Star, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 12,019 ratings
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The Star Scroll (Dragon Prince, #2)
The Star Scroll (Dragon Prince, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 9,570 ratings
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Skybowl (Dragon Star, #3)
Skybowl (Dragon Star, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 10,253 ratings
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In the Stars
In the Stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
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Washington's War (Blast to the Past #7)
Washington's War (Blast to the Past #7) 3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Ben Franklin's Fame (Blast to the Past #6)
Ben Franklin's Fame (Blast to the Past #6) 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Lincoln's Legacy (Blast to the Past #1)
Lincoln's Legacy (Blast to the Past #1) 3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings
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You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You 4.23 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Hero's Song (The Songs of Eirren, #1)
Hero's Song (The Songs of Eirren, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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Fire Arrow (The Songs of Eirren, #2)
Fire Arrow (The Songs of Eirren, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
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Mrs. Spitzer's Garden
Mrs. Spitzer's Garden 4.10 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Contagion: Disease, Government, and the ‘Social Question’ in Nineteenth-Century France
Contagion: Disease, Government, and the ‘Social Question’ in Nineteenth-Century France 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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