Non-Fiction that reads like fiction

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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune 3.80 avg rating — 39,204 ratings
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Genius Intelligence (The Underground Knowledge Series, #1)
Genius Intelligence (The Underground Knowledge Series, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Medical Industrial Complex (The Underground Knowledge Series, #3)
Medical Industrial Complex (The Underground Knowledge Series, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 156,047 ratings
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States 4.29 avg rating — 385 ratings
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The Devil Wears Clogs
The Devil Wears Clogs 3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating — 53,986 ratings
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The Mothman Prophecies
The Mothman Prophecies 3.51 avg rating — 6,715 ratings
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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys
Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys 3.95 avg rating — 17,211 ratings
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The Underground Abductor (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #5)
The Underground Abductor (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #5) 4.41 avg rating — 4,680 ratings
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca 4.11 avg rating — 3,690 ratings
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Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink 3.72 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,755 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 — 75,035 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 1
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 1 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine
Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine 4.03 avg rating — 3,844 ratings
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Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino 4.12 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Antigravity Propulsion (The Underground Knowledge Series, #2)
Antigravity Propulsion (The Underground Knowledge Series, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece 3.87 avg rating — 35,395 ratings
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my life with the army in the west
my life with the army in the west really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies 4.09 avg rating — 23,147 ratings
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My Place
My Place 3.99 avg rating — 6,672 ratings
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway 4.42 avg rating — 12,705 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love 3.75 avg rating — 30,049 ratings
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Boyhood (Scenes from Provincial Life #1)
Boyhood (Scenes from Provincial Life #1) 3.77 avg rating — 5,848 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II 3.87 avg rating — 46,528 ratings
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Mañana Mañana: One Mallorcan Summer
Mañana Mañana: One Mallorcan Summer 3.68 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The S Word: A Memoir About Secrets
The S Word: A Memoir About Secrets 4.23 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide 4.02 avg rating — 11,610 ratings
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We of the Never-Never
We of the Never-Never 3.66 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them 3.31 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie 3.91 avg rating — 14,859 ratings
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Lost: A Memoir
Lost: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper 3.57 avg rating — 13,657 ratings
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Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness
Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness 4.18 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior 3.78 avg rating — 19,711 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 4.19 avg rating — 208,907 ratings
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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose 3.90 avg rating — 596 ratings
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A Fortunate Life
A Fortunate Life 4.25 avg rating — 9,642 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking 4.20 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Eleni
Eleni 4.42 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper 4.10 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
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The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South
The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South 4.04 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place
Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place 4.10 avg rating — 191 ratings
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 4.14 avg rating — 52,671 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 569,025 ratings
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The Bear's Embrace : A True Story of Survival
The Bear's Embrace : A True Story of Survival 4.04 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Replacement Child
Replacement Child 3.71 avg rating — 688 ratings
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Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey 3.74 avg rating — 3,630 ratings
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The Very Bloody History of Britain
The Very Bloody History of Britain 3.76 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans
Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans 3.73 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Tracks
Tracks 3.93 avg rating — 17,209 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World 3.92 avg rating — 24,366 ratings
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World 3.73 avg rating — 6,475 ratings
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At Home with the Marquis De Sade: A Life
At Home with the Marquis De Sade: A Life 3.92 avg rating — 401 ratings
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the big lie, a true story
the big lie, a true story 3.89 avg rating — 471 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn 3.98 avg rating — 14,168 ratings
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Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You 4.18 avg rating — 884 ratings
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead 4.10 avg rating — 866 ratings
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The Story of Music
The Story of Music 4.06 avg rating — 907 ratings
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Bess of Hardwick First Lady of Chatsworth
Bess of Hardwick First Lady of Chatsworth 4.12 avg rating — 3,427 ratings
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The Dog Fence: A Journey Across the Heart of Australia
The Dog Fence: A Journey Across the Heart of Australia 3.68 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating — 62,935 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic 4.19 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story 3.96 avg rating — 3,025 ratings
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Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch 3.95 avg rating — 3,652 ratings
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Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory
Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory 3.74 avg rating — 1,576 ratings
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Overlay - A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas
Overlay - A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas 4.03 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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A War of Witches : A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs
A War of Witches : A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs 3.94 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues
The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues 3.51 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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Dingo the Story of Our Mob
Dingo the Story of Our Mob 3.88 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival 4.07 avg rating — 18,592 ratings
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss 3.95 avg rating — 61,693 ratings
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The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time 3.15 avg rating — 449 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 — 276,401 ratings
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed 4.12 avg rating — 12,030 ratings
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Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
by: Jewel
4.12 avg rating — 8,326 ratings
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The Pregnancy Project
The Pregnancy Project 3.66 avg rating — 5,286 ratings
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A History of the Jews
A History of the Jews 4.17 avg rating — 2,629 ratings
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Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog
Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 388 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 4.09 avg rating — 64,244 ratings
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Lost Paradise
Lost Paradise 3.77 avg rating — 497 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,288 ratings
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over 3.94 avg rating — 2,887 ratings
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Ship of Dreams
Ship of Dreams 4.02 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating — 52,986 ratings
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Lost on Planet China
Lost on Planet China 3.77 avg rating — 11,968 ratings
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto 4.14 avg rating — 4,797 ratings
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire 3.93 avg rating — 4,563 ratings
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England, Bloody England: An Expatriate's Return
England, Bloody England: An Expatriate's Return 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse
Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse 3.90 avg rating — 230 ratings
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
by: Greg King
3.95 avg rating — 522 ratings
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century 4.01 avg rating — 33,633 ratings
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington 3.74 avg rating — 14,286 ratings
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The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War 4.09 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Church of Lies
Church of Lies 3.94 avg rating — 2,996 ratings
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A London Girl of the 1880s
A London Girl of the 1880s 4.10 avg rating — 80 ratings
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