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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
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3.77 avg rating — 41,138 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 221,703 ratings
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Escape
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3.98 avg rating — 46,099 ratings
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67,550 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
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3.42 avg rating — 10,447 ratings
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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4.07 avg rating — 75,394 ratings
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Infidel
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4.20 avg rating — 92,181 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.32 avg rating — 1,335,258 ratings
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
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3.95 avg rating — 31,333 ratings
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Cult Girls
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4.32 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 44,634 ratings
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Educated
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4.47 avg rating — 1,795,006 ratings
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
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3.97 avg rating — 19,466 ratings
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The Sound of Gravel
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4.30 avg rating — 60,633 ratings
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Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
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3.56 avg rating — 4,159 ratings
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I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
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3.42 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
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3.90 avg rating — 2,834 ratings
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The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
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4.05 avg rating — 12,993 ratings
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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
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4.12 avg rating — 3,947 ratings
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Breaking Free
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4.11 avg rating — 15,049 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 350,472 ratings
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
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3.85 avg rating — 8,797 ratings
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Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
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4.15 avg rating — 18,635 ratings
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
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4.14 avg rating — 48,355 ratings
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today
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3.94 avg rating — 3,627 ratings
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All Who Go Do Not Return
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4.29 avg rating — 6,327 ratings
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I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage
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3.76 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
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3.93 avg rating — 4,472 ratings
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His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy
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3.93 avg rating — 5,295 ratings
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Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult
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3.36 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
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Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir
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3.74 avg rating — 2,225 ratings
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Lost Boy
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3.90 avg rating — 4,185 ratings
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I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult
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4.06 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
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3.98 avg rating — 6,995 ratings
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
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4.01 avg rating — 5,132 ratings
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
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3.70 avg rating — 2,998 ratings
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Cult Child
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3.81 avg rating — 715 ratings
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Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
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4.24 avg rating — 10,850 ratings
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Growing Up Amish
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3.40 avg rating — 13,560 ratings
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
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3.80 avg rating — 37,445 ratings
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
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3.19 avg rating — 32,534 ratings
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The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith
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3.54 avg rating — 3,211 ratings
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My Life in Orange
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3.50 avg rating — 2,558 ratings
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The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir
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3.61 avg rating — 7,468 ratings
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The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
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3.97 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy
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3.83 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
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Church of Lies
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3.94 avg rating — 3,025 ratings
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Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin: A Memoir
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3.86 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
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3.78 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
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3.74 avg rating — 629 ratings
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All Who Believed: A Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes
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4.41 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
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4.13 avg rating — 9,292 ratings
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All the Fishes Come Home to Roost
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3.72 avg rating — 813 ratings
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
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4.32 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
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3.88 avg rating — 4,974 ratings
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Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
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4.33 avg rating — 13,919 ratings
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
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4.20 avg rating — 14,065 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family
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3.79 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
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3.87 avg rating — 9,552 ratings
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Foreskin's Lament
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3.88 avg rating — 6,253 ratings
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The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
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4.11 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Polygamist's Daughter
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3.63 avg rating — 14,101 ratings
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Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
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4.12 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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Why I Left the Amish
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3.50 avg rating — 589 ratings
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My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood
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3.40 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family
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3.79 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement
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3.68 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
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3.62 avg rating — 49,827 ratings
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Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher's Daughter
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3.54 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Jonestown Survivor: An Insider's Look
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3.24 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Crossing Over: One Woman's Escape from Amish Life
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3.23 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
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Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
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3.70 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Stories from Jonestown
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4.06 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult
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3.99 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
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Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself
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3.89 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Hollywood Park
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4.29 avg rating — 16,403 ratings
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Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
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3.68 avg rating — 2,240 ratings
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Counting the Cost
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 148,642 ratings
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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
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3.90 avg rating — 2,626 ratings
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Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith
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4.09 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Tears of the Silenced
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4.28 avg rating — 26,313 ratings
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The Last Year of the War
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3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
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3.43 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Born into the Children of God
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3.83 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
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Embraced By The Light
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3.97 avg rating — 9,878 ratings
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A Year of Living Prayerfully
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4.25 avg rating — 824 ratings
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The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
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4.39 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Awake in a Nightmare: Jonestown, the Only Eyewitness Account
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4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality
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4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Tramp for the Lord
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4.50 avg rating — 26,020 ratings
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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3.90 avg rating — 117,951 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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4.01 avg rating — 45,776 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 286,814 ratings
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Black Klansman
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3.62 avg rating — 21,554 ratings
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Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
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4.11 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
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Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond
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3.36 avg rating — 996 ratings
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Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews
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3.45 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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4.21 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
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3.63 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Escape: My Lifelong War Against Cults
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4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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