Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam
By: Jack Todd
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1969, Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble …
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By: Richard O. Boyer , Herbert M. Morais
3.78
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
Fundamentally, labor's story is the story of the American people. To view it narrowly, to concentra… read more
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By: Howard Zinn
4.26
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By: Julie V. Watson
3.87
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By: Marc Weingarten
4.33
Format: 288 pages,
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5. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A revised and updated edition of a humorous primer on the English language, expanded for an America… read more
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6. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
By: Anonymous , Philip Boehm , Hans Magnus Enzensberger
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
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7. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
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4.00
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By: None
3.40
Format: 208 pages,
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By: Avi Steinberg
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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11. Rats, Lice, and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals With the Life History of Typhus Fever
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4.67
Format: 523 pages, Hardcover
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12. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
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3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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13. Quantum Supremacy
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3.79
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4.30
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4.24
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16. King: A Life
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4.67
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4.23
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4.02
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4.57
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4.18
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4.16
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3.96
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4.19
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27. You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
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3.68
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4.31
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31. Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam
By: Jack Todd
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1969, Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble … read more
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