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Modern Romance
Modern Romance 3.80 avg rating β€” 189,349 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 3.83 avg rating β€” 168,487 ratings
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed 3.93 avg rating β€” 65,196 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating β€” 176,958 ratings
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World 4.13 avg rating β€” 76,421 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,154,193 ratings
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The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture 4.26 avg rating β€” 359,331 ratings
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Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia
Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia 4.43 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,201,984 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating β€” 276,390 ratings
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Spilled Milk
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant 4.01 avg rating β€” 84,952 ratings
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. 3.85 avg rating β€” 149,443 ratings
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The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help 3.92 avg rating β€” 36,425 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating β€” 132,008 ratings
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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men 4.48 avg rating β€” 16,874 ratings
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Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead 4.18 avg rating β€” 121,739 ratings
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story 4.02 avg rating β€” 3,992 ratings
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity 4.43 avg rating β€” 10,878 ratings
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Dad Is Fat
Dad Is Fat 3.78 avg rating β€” 79,782 ratings
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World 4.16 avg rating β€” 180,912 ratings
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The Pale-Faced Lie
The Pale-Faced Lie 4.28 avg rating β€” 28,439 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 4.06 avg rating β€” 152,021 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating β€” 82,614 ratings
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Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them
Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them 4.33 avg rating β€” 20,673 ratings
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Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns, and Come Home to Yourself
Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns, and Come Home to Yourself 4.34 avg rating β€” 2,251 ratings
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Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival.
Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival. 4.19 avg rating β€” 6,983 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating β€” 129,373 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 4.17 avg rating β€” 213,873 ratings
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The Surprising Truth About Sales: A Holistic Approach to Closing a Deal
The Surprising Truth About Sales: A Holistic Approach to Closing a Deal 4.96 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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Girl Wash your Face
Girl Wash your Face 3.57 avg rating β€” 270,043 ratings
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America's Daughter (Dancing Soul Trilogy, #2)
America's Daughter (Dancing Soul Trilogy, #2) 4.30 avg rating β€” 7,107 ratings
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating β€” 69,184 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating β€” 72,729 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating β€” 885,873 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating β€” 26,300 ratings
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible 3.76 avg rating β€” 68,669 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating β€” 75,034 ratings
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,191,006 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating β€” 426,100 ratings
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Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want
Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want
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4.26 avg rating β€” 7,110 ratings
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain 4.13 avg rating β€” 17,031 ratings
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen 3.71 avg rating β€” 160,371 ratings
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century 4.16 avg rating β€” 172,966 ratings
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts 3.82 avg rating β€” 21,787 ratings
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Wishful Drinking
Wishful Drinking 3.82 avg rating β€” 91,344 ratings
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The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating β€” 220,227 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl 4.06 avg rating β€” 60,129 ratings
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The Power of a Praying Parent
The Power of a Praying Parent 4.48 avg rating β€” 7,415 ratings
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A Little Pinprick (Rainey Paxton, #1)
A Little Pinprick (Rainey Paxton, #1) 4.46 avg rating β€” 5,998 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci 4.19 avg rating β€” 122,290 ratings
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 3.88 avg rating β€” 386,299 ratings
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Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life
Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life 3.93 avg rating β€” 527 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating β€” 89,885 ratings
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Braving the Wilderness
Braving the Wilderness 4.13 avg rating β€” 117,805 ratings
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A Street Cat Named Bob
A Street Cat Named Bob 3.99 avg rating β€” 59,162 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 4.18 avg rating β€” 359,944 ratings
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Principles: Life and Work
Principles: Life and Work
by: Ray Dalio
4.10 avg rating β€” 64,766 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating β€” 93,115 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 4.13 avg rating β€” 434,914 ratings
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
by: Amy Chua
3.66 avg rating β€” 53,699 ratings
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance 4.08 avg rating β€” 137,601 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart 3.86 avg rating β€” 35,861 ratings
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,335,734 ratings
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy 3.77 avg rating β€” 329,148 ratings
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World 3.95 avg rating β€” 56,867 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating β€” 612,739 ratings
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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear 3.96 avg rating β€” 228,804 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating β€” 157,327 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating β€” 55,461 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating β€” 370,618 ratings
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The Secret (The Secret, #1)
The Secret (The Secret, #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 519,982 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,160,754 ratings
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History 4.03 avg rating β€” 138,805 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 4.18 avg rating β€” 73,031 ratings
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Yes Please
Yes Please 3.85 avg rating β€” 548,584 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β€” 189,289 ratings
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The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing 4.36 avg rating β€” 895 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating β€” 76,903 ratings
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The Seat of the Soul
The Seat of the Soul 4.03 avg rating β€” 47,773 ratings
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love 4.07 avg rating β€” 48,923 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 3.94 avg rating β€” 22,979 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 3.93 avg rating β€” 39,334 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating β€” 72,845 ratings
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Early Warning Signals
Early Warning Signals 4.73 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β€” 989,275 ratings
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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination 4.09 avg rating β€” 28,657 ratings
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative 3.96 avg rating β€” 324,505 ratings
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The Richest Man in Babylon
The Richest Man in Babylon 4.23 avg rating β€” 233,991 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating β€” 204,772 ratings
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The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children
The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children 4.51 avg rating β€” 1,633 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating β€” 845,882 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating β€” 34,490 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating β€” 91,951 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating β€” 320,780 ratings
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence 4.18 avg rating β€” 49,300 ratings
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Our Matrix Decoded: How Our Reality is Rigged and How to Break Free
Our Matrix Decoded: How Our Reality is Rigged and How to Break Free it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra 3.88 avg rating β€” 24,078 ratings
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Call Me Tuesday
Call Me Tuesday 4.26 avg rating β€” 11,430 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating β€” 86,448 ratings
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