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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course (AoL Mindfulness #5)
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Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective
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Nancy Danielson Mendenhall (Goodreads Author)
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The Joy of Tax
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| 304 |
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The Chamber
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| 304 |
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The Army of the Republic
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| 307 |
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Conundrum (Nine Inch Bride, #1)
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| 307 |
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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
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| 307 |
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Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
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| 310 |
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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A Fine Balance
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| 313 |
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Men Who Hate Women
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| 315 |
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FDR
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| 315 |
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
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Lynne Olson (Goodreads Author)
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| 317 |
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Flight Behavior
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| 318 |
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Dude, Where's My Country?
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| 319 |
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
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Live from Death Row
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New World of Indigenous Resistance
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Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
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| 323 |
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Footnotes in Gaza
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| 324 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper
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| 325 |
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A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life
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| 326 |
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Why Evolution Is True
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| 327 |
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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 624,962 ratings
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| 327 |
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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| 329 |
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Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
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Will Potter (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 858 ratings
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| 329 |
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Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death
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| 331 |
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The Chomsky Reader
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Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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Political Psychology: Key Readings
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John T. Jost (Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
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| 334 |
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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
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| 335 |
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
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| 335 |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 6,675 ratings
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| 337 |
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In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
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3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 338 |
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Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change
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| 339 |
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Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country
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4.24 avg rating — 139 ratings
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| 339 |
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What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy
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4.14 avg rating — 237 ratings
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| 339 |
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The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
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| 342 |
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The Fluoride Deception
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| 343 |
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
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3.86 avg rating — 1,683 ratings
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| 344 |
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The Priest
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Theodore Rex
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Here Comes Trouble
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
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| 348 |
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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| 349 |
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White Tears
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Hari Kunzru (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 10,317 ratings
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Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
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Edward W. Said (Editor)
4.11 avg rating — 317 ratings
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| 349 |
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
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Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
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Jerome Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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| 356 |
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The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice
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| 357 |
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Rebuild the Dream
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| 358 |
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
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| 361 |
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Neoreaction a Basilisk
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3.84 avg rating — 452 ratings
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| 361 |
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Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
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General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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Praying for Sheetrock
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Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
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Fundraising for Social Change
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Bloody Rwanda: The Genocide
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The State of the Union: Notes on an Obama Administration
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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| 368 |
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Permanent Record
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| 371 |
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The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It
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| 372 |
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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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Letter to a Christian Nation
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Fortune Smiles
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Walden, And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: And The Thoreau Essay, Walking
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Secrets, Lies and Democracy
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Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
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Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
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In His Steps
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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The American War: Vietnam 1960-1975
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American Progressivism: A Reader
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Ayn Rand Hates Tuscaloosa, And You Too Joplin!
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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
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Too Many Pills
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The Sustainability Generation: The Politics of Change and Why Personal Accountability is Essential NOW!
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ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Barack Obama: A Detailed Response to Benghazi
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The Kite Runner
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Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
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I Am America
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Stephen Colbert (Contributor/Editor)
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The Known World
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Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
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William Leuchtenburg, Progressivism and Imperialism: The Progressive Movement and American Foreign Policy, 1898 - 1916
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