AP Non Fiction

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Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience 4.25 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,768 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,051 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 — 99,680 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 4.05 avg rating — 112,354 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,255 ratings
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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead 3.36 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us 3.95 avg rating — 123,660 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating — 614,695 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,243 ratings
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67,129 ratings
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City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago 3.65 avg rating — 3,344 ratings
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Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,908 ratings
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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response 4.23 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think 3.68 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,501 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by: Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,824 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings
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In the Shadow of Midnight: Daedalus, A tale of Savannah
In the Shadow of Midnight: Daedalus, A tale of Savannah 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World 3.95 avg rating — 56,865 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,491 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating — 78,544 ratings
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,465 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 — 129,362 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark 4.29 avg rating — 78,413 ratings
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
The Radioactive Boy Scout 3.73 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
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The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness 4.19 avg rating — 24,465 ratings
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A Mountain of Crumbs
A Mountain of Crumbs 3.78 avg rating — 2,955 ratings
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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness 3.69 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America 3.92 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma 3.79 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
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1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories 4.11 avg rating — 3,920 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,338 ratings
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Hip: The History
Hip: The History 3.73 avg rating — 649 ratings
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The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind 3.76 avg rating — 5,868 ratings
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson 3.94 avg rating — 28,832 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 3.95 avg rating — 46,970 ratings
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic 3.97 avg rating — 10,697 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 — 168,478 ratings
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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery
The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery 4.12 avg rating — 1,615 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 — 93,181 ratings
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement 4.23 avg rating — 4,284 ratings
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The Blue Nile
The Blue Nile 4.16 avg rating — 877 ratings
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In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan 3.86 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
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The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath
The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath 3.42 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 4.09 avg rating — 7,790 ratings
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Ten Days that Shook the World
Ten Days that Shook the World
by: John Reed
3.94 avg rating — 7,549 ratings
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors 3.87 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage 4.20 avg rating — 22,796 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,599 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
The Warrior Queens 3.71 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 3.90 avg rating — 106,822 ratings
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Blue Highways
Blue Highways 4.03 avg rating — 24,992 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating — 115,975 ratings
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Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples
Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples 3.78 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous 3.73 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big 3.29 avg rating — 3,388 ratings
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Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South
Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Moneyball
Moneyball 4.27 avg rating — 141,352 ratings
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America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation 4.31 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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Counting Coup
Counting Coup 4.17 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle 3.95 avg rating — 798 ratings
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The Last Amateurs
The Last Amateurs 4.02 avg rating — 1,993 ratings
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When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball
When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball 4.03 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Game Boys: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time
Game Boys: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time 3.71 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street 3.66 avg rating — 3,442 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating — 72,839 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
This Is Your Brain on Music 3.89 avg rating — 66,735 ratings
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Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers 3.22 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy 3.76 avg rating — 14,124 ratings
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything 3.73 avg rating — 10,986 ratings
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The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life Is a Paid-For Experience
The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life Is a Paid-For Experience 3.88 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence 3.79 avg rating — 7,853 ratings
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Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race 3.74 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us 3.72 avg rating — 8,118 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,886 ratings
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Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children 3.94 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
The Demon in the Freezer 4.15 avg rating — 17,726 ratings
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Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat
Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat liked it 3.00 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Stem Cell Divide: The Facts, the Fiction, And the Fear Driving the Greatest Scientific, Political And Religious Debate of Our Time
The Stem Cell Divide: The Facts, the Fiction, And the Fear Driving the Greatest Scientific, Political And Religious Debate of Our Time 3.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service 3.94 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times 3.56 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants 3.72 avg rating — 4,485 ratings
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird 4.16 avg rating — 424 ratings
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals 4.02 avg rating — 4,947 ratings
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) 4.15 avg rating — 9,826 ratings
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution 3.79 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
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The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire 3.94 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Earth: An Intimate History
Earth: An Intimate History 3.90 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change 4.01 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? 4.15 avg rating — 4,109 ratings
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Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World 3.78 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 3.97 avg rating — 11,607 ratings
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
Dinosaur in a Haystack 4.11 avg rating — 2,522 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science 4.03 avg rating — 40,240 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,830 ratings
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris 3.92 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,754 ratings
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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age 3.83 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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