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Ukrainian Cuisine in 70 Dishes
By Based on ideas by Ievhen Klopotenko
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Step into Ukraine through the doorway of food—where borscht has countless voices, bread carries tenderness, and even a humble beet or parsnip can reconnect a person with history, home, and the people gathered at the table.

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
By Summary narration (based on provided content)
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This warm, practical narration invites listeners—especially white Americans who want to help but feel unsure where to begin—into a steady, compassionate exploration of identity, bias, privilege, and action, with simple ways to listen better and support real change.

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A Word About the Writers’ Home “Slovo”
By Unknown (based on Volodymyr Kulish’s recollections and historical accounts)
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Step into Slovo, a writers’ house that once felt like a bright, buzzing hive of Ukrainian creativity—until surveillance, arrests, and fear closed in—leaving behind tender childhood memories that still carry warmth through a national tragedy.

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Fluke
By Brian Klaas
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A single vacation, a patch of clouds, a last-minute choice—this gentle journey shows how randomness quietly shapes history and everyday life, and how embracing uncertainty can help people live with more humility, resilience, and meaning.

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Salt, Sugar and Fat
By Unknown
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This warm, practical narration explores how processed foods rose to replace home cooking—and how sugar, fat, and salt quietly shape cravings—so listeners can make calmer, more informed choices without guilt or fear.

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Three Women
By Lisa Taddeo
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Through the lives of Lina, Maggie, and Sloane, this story quietly reveals how desire, shame, power, and longing can shape a person—especially when the world dismisses women’s needs, doubts their pain, and asks them to carry the consequences alone.

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The Color of Compromise
By Based on a summary featuring themes and quotations attributed to Jemar Tisby
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This warm, honest narration gently explores how racism took root in American Christian history, why selective storytelling keeps wounds open, and how truth-telling—though painful—can become a doorway to repentance, healing, and wiser action.

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Invisible Women
By Caroline Criado Perez
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This warm, eye-opening journey shows how missing data about women quietly shapes everything from healthcare and workplace policies to city streets—while also revealing how better information, better design, and fairer representation can make life safer and more workable for everyone.

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The End of Bias
By Based on themes discussed by Jessica Nordell and cited researchers
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This gentle, practical exploration shows how unconscious bias and stereotypes quietly shape everyday choices—and how mindful awareness, better habits, and more inclusive systems can help people respond with greater fairness, clarity, and care.

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Walk in My Combat Boots
By Unknown
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This gentle narration honors veterans whose roles and experiences are often unseen—medics, pilots, leaders, and support specialists—showing how courage can look like quiet duty, hard choices, and the long, patient work of healing after war.

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Solito
By Javier Zamora
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy crossing borders alone, this story gently shows how love can be improvised in motion—how strangers can become family, how fear can be carried, and how art can turn painful memory into a living kind of hope.

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Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955-1991
By Unknown
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Step into the streets of Soviet-era Ukraine and learn how concrete, brick, and grand façades quietly recorded ideology, hope, control, and change—revealing an emotional history that can still be read today, simply by looking up.

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The Joy of Hate
By Greg Gutfeld (as referenced in the text)
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In a world where “tolerance” is sometimes used to shame, silence, and provoke, this gentle guide helps listeners recognize phony outrage, practice thoughtful discernment, and choose calmer, more meaningful ways to respond—without losing compassion or personal freedom.

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Antiracist Baby
By Ibram X. Kendi
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This gentle, practical guide invites parents and caregivers to nurture children who notice difference with respect, speak up about unfairness, and grow into people who help build a world where everyone is treated with dignity and care.

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The Sixth Extinction
By Based on themes popularized by Elizabeth Kolbert (summary text provided by user)
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A gentle, clear-eyed journey through the story of extinction—how life has vanished before, why this moment is different, and how small, grounded choices can help protect the living world we still have time to care for.

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Your Driver Is Waiting
By Priya Guns
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A broke rideshare driver holding her life together with duct tape, muscle, and rage falls for a radiant, privileged activist—then a single “helpful” phone call turns love into betrayal, and the city’s protests into her personal point of no return.

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Young Queens
By Leah Redmond Chang
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Three women—Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots—grow up inside Europe’s most dangerous courts, where marriage is diplomacy, childbirth is policy, and a single death can topple alliances and ignite civil war across kingdoms.

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World Running Down
By Al Hess
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In a dying wasteland outside Salt Lake City, a trans salvager chasing a visa meets a stranded AI Steward trapped in an android body—and their desperate road job becomes a fight over sentience, autonomy, and who gets to live as their true self.

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Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
By Jesse Q. Sutanto
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

When a lonely, sharp-tongued Chinatown tea shop owner finds a dead man on her floor, she decides the police are useless—so she recruits a handful of suspicious strangers, brews weapon-grade tea, and accidentally builds the family she didn’t know she needed while chasing a killer.

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Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
By Leah Myers
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Leah Myers traces four generations of Native women through Coast Salish spirit stories and painful family truths—until she reaches the cliff edge of blood quantum, where belonging becomes math, survival becomes memory, and telling the story may be the only way to keep a people from disappearing.

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The Wonder Paradox
By Jennifer Michael Hecht
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

What if the nonreligious didn’t have to choose between honesty and solace—between rejecting supernatural belief and losing ritual, comfort, and community—because poetry can do the spiritual work of prayer without asking anyone to pretend?

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The Wishing Game
By Meg Shaffer
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A broke teacher’s aide enters a Willy Wonka–style contest on a mysterious island to win a one-of-a-kind book—but the real prize isn’t paper and ink, it’s the family she’s been fighting to build and the past she’s been running from.

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The West: A New History
By Naoíse Mac Sweeney
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

What if “Western Civilisation” isn’t an ancient inheritance from Greece and Rome, but a modern story stitched together for power—one that can be dismantled, re-read, and rewritten through fourteen lives that expose how the West’s origin myth was built.

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The Way of the Bear
By Anne Hillerman
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In the sacred, contested expanse of Bears Ears, Officer Bernadette Manuelito survives a predatory truck in the dark—only to uncover vandalized rock art, illegal digging, and a fossil worth killing for, pulling her and Jim Chee into a blizzard-bound web of greed and betrayal.

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The Survivalists
By Kashana Cauley
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A high-achieving Brooklyn corporate lawyer falls for a charming coffee entrepreneur—then discovers his housemates are armed doomsday preppers, and the closer she gets to love, security, and “preparedness,” the more her life tilts toward paranoia, secrecy, and collapse.

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The Reunion
By Kayla Olson
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A reclusive former teen-TV icon agrees to a twentieth-anniversary reunion special—only to be thrown back into the orbit of her once-inseparable co-star, where old wounds, new headlines, and one undeniable second chance collide under Hollywood’s brightest spotlight.

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The Midnight News
By Jo Baker
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In Blitz-era London, a privileged young woman unravels under grief and danger—until a quiet undertaker and a chain of hidden truths force her to choose: disappear into “safety,” or fight to reclaim her mind, her life, and a love she never expected.

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The Marriage Act
By John Marrs
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In a near-future Britain where Smart Marriages unlock healthcare, housing, and privilege—but an AI can also force you into counseling, court-ordered divorce, or worse—three couples discover the system isn’t saving love… it’s weaponizing it.

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The Home for Wayward Girls
By Marcia Bradley
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

On the morning Loretta is finally ready to tell the world what happened at the isolated “Home for Wayward Girls,” the past tightens like a noose—because the man who ran it may still be hunting her, even all these years later.

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The Forgotten Girls
By Monica Potts
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A journalist returns to her Ozark hometown chasing a public-health mystery—why less-educated white women are dying younger—and finds the answer braided through one best friend’s life, where poverty, religion, trauma, addiction, and love collide.

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The Diary Keepers
By Nina Siegal
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In a hidden Amsterdam vault sit more than 2,100 wartime diaries—written by resisters, bystanders, Jews in hiding, and Dutch Nazis—revealing, day by day, how an entire society slid from “normal life” into persecution, deportation, and moral collapse.

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The Half Moon
By Mary Beth Keane
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

On a night when Malcolm’s struggling bar finally feels alive again, one revelation shatters his marriage—and as storms close in, he and Jess must decide whether love can survive betrayal, ambition, and the long grief of the life they never got.

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The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
By Orlando Ortega-Medina
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A burned-out San Francisco lawyer clings to sobriety and love as an immigrant deportation case, a stalking former client, and buried grief collide—until he and his partner must decide whether freedom means winning in court or leaving America behind.

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The Devil’s Playground
By Craig Russell
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A fixer in 1927 Hollywood covers up what looks like a star’s suicide—until the body reveals strangulation, a hidden print of a “lost” horror masterpiece resurfaces decades later, and a trail of vanished girls and occult “resurrections” leads to a predator hiding in plain sight.

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The Crane Husband
By Kelly Barnhill
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A fifteen-year-old caretaker watches her mother fall under the spell of a mysterious crane—lover, predator, and parasite—until the girl must choose between preserving the family myth of “love” and saving the only person she can still protect: her little brother.

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The Collected Regrets of Clover
By Mikki Brammer
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Clover, a death doula in New York who keeps notebooks of people’s last regrets, spends her life avoiding connection—until a dying woman’s long-buried love story forces Clover to confront her own grief, loneliness, and the chances she’s been too afraid to take.

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The Chinese Groove
By Kathryn Ma
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

An eighteen-year-old from Yunnan flies to San Francisco chasing poetry, love, and reinvention—only to become caretaker, hustler, and accidental bridge between broken families, betrayals, and the quiet, wordless rules of survival he calls “the Chinese groove.”

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The Celebrants
By Steven Rowley
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Six college friends make a pact to hold “living funerals” so no one dies with love left unsaid—but decades later, when real grief arrives, the ritual that once saved them becomes the only way to face goodbye.

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Taken
By Dinuka McKenzie
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A baby vanishes from a quiet hinterland home, and Detective Kate Miles—new mum, still healing, and under a brutal spotlight—must untangle secrets, lies, and a staged abduction before grief turns into irreversible tragedy.

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The Brightest Star
By Gail Tsukiyama
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

On a cross-country train in 1960, Anna May Wong—Hollywood’s first Chinese-American star—reopens the notebooks of her life, reliving love, betrayal, racism, exile, and triumph as she fights to be seen as fully American and fully herself.

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Sorry, Bro
By Taleen Voskuni
4.3 / 5 • 271 ratings

When Bay Area reporter Nareh turns down her boyfriend’s public proposal, she doesn’t expect it to catapult her into the arms of a fiercely smart Armenian genocide educator—or into a reckoning with her family, her heritage, and her sexuality. Sorry, Bro is a warm, funny, and deeply romantic story about finally choosing the life—and the love—that feels like home.

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Pomegranate: A Novel
By Helen Elaine Lee
4.5 / 5 • 222 ratings

Four clean years, a paper bag of old keys, and a memory of a pomegranate. Ranita steps through the prison gates and into a new kind of hard. This is the story of what love, recovery, and truth-telling feel like in a body that remembers everything.

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Painted Devils
By Margaret Owen
4.4 / 5 • 465 ratings

A fake miracle births a real god, a tender love is claimed for sacrifice, and a thief must decide what she’s willing to lose to save the boy who chose her. Cults, crowns, and mothers who won’t let go collide in a breathless YA fantasy heist of the heart.

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Small World
By Laura Zigman
4.5 / 5 • 534 ratings

Two divorced sisters move back in together, hoping to heal what childhood grief and family secrets left behind. A noisy upstairs wellness studio, a hidden illness, and an old love from their mother’s past push them to finally tell the truth. What they find isn’t perfect—but it’s real, and it’s theirs.

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Sisters of the Lost Nation
By Nick Medina
4.4 / 5 • 546 ratings

A teenage hotel housekeeper on a Louisiana reservation chases a nightmare from childhood into a real-world crisis of missing girls, power, and silence. Guided by stories, Anna Horn refuses to look away—and learns how to fight in the light.

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Sink: A Memoir
By Joseph Earl Thomas
4.4 / 5 • 165 ratings

A boy with an Easy-Bake Oven and a black notebook grows up under the glare of a hard house and a harder city. With video games, anime, and drawings of sea monsters as lifelines, he learns how tenderness and fury can live in the same body — and how survival sometimes looks like a quiet, stubborn form of love.

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Sing Her Down
By Ivy Pochoda
4.7 / 5 • 654 ratings

Two women walk out of an Arizona prison in the early pandemic with unfinished business burning in their chests. They’ll pull Los Angeles into their orbit—Skid Row, busted bus routes, a mother’s mansion, and a mural that seems to move—until one final choice fixes who they really are.

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Seven Rules for Breaking Hearts
By Kristyn J. Miller
4.4 / 5 • 133 ratings

Two best friends built a hit podcast teaching women how to avoid heartbreak. Then one fell in love, the other tried to prove the rules still worked—and both discovered the truth is messier, funnier, and more human than any list. This is the sun‑soaked, Catalina‑set story of Margo and Declan, and what happens when you drop the rules and learn to trust.

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Romantic Comedy
By Curtis Sittenfeld
4.4 / 5 • 691 ratings

A late-night TV writer invents a joke about why gorgeous male celebrities date "ordinary" women—but not the other way around. Then she meets the kind, wildly famous singer hosting her show, and the rule she swears by starts to crack.

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Return to Satterthwaite Court (Somerset Stories, Book 3)
By Mimi Matthews
4.7 / 5 • 144 ratings

A stray dog in Bond Street. A bold young lady with a fearless heart. A battle-tested sailor trying to leave danger behind. Their lives collide, and a long-buried family secret pulls them toward an old Devonshire estate and a very modern choice: duty, reputation, or love.

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Really Good, Actually
By Monica Heisey
4.8 / 5 • 296 ratings

Maggie’s marriage ends after 608 days, and what follows is a messy, funny, deeply honest year of heartbreak, apps, therapy, friends, mistakes, and small joys that slowly add up to a life again.

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Ordinary Notes
By Christina Sharpe
4.5 / 5 • 469 ratings

A daughter’s love letter becomes a map. Christina Sharpe gathers small, precise notes—family memories, museum visits, headlines, photographs—and shows how they add up to the weather we live in. This is a warm, demanding, beautiful conversation about Black life, grief, care, and the daily practice of making a livable world.

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Open Throat
By Henry Hoke
4.7 / 5 • 120 ratings

A hungry mountain lion lives in the Hollywood hills, hiding in plain sight and listening to the city talk. Fire, drought, a girl who calls her a goddess, and one terrible choice pull this animal into our human world. It’s a feral, tender, funny, and devastating voice you won’t be able to shake.

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On the Savage Side
By Tiffany McDaniel
4.5 / 5 • 461 ratings

Two twin sisters grow up in a town where the river remembers every name. One will carry her friends to rehab and back to the water. The other is already gone. What’s left is a story about love, survival, and the dangerous mercy of forgetting.

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On the Meaning of Sex
By Kajsa Ekis Ekman
4.7 / 5 • 202 ratings

What happens when sex stops being a material reality and becomes a feeling? Kajsa Ekis Ekman traces how that belief spread through media, medicine, law, and culture—and what it costs women, children, sport, and democratic debate.

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Only the Beautiful
By Susan Meissner
4.6 / 5 • 174 ratings

A teenage vineyard maid who sees sound as color. A wartime nanny who refuses to look away. Two lives—eight years apart—collide in a quiet revolution against eugenics, shame, and silence. This is a story about the cost of doing nothing, the courage to act, and the love that refuses to let go.

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One Girl in All the World
By Kendare Blake
4.7 / 5 • 169 ratings

Sunnydale’s back, the Hellmouth’s itching, and a brand-new slayer—who also happens to be a witch—is discovering that patrols, crushes, and cosmic stakes do not mix neatly. Frankie Rosenberg just wanted to keep her friends safe. Instead, she stumbles into a plot that could strip the power from slayers everywhere—and hand it to the wrong one.

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Phaedra: A Novel
By Laura Shepperson
4.7 / 5 • 495 ratings

A Cretan princess is married off to a hero, carried to a crumbling court, and asked to keep quiet. Instead, she forces Athens to listen. This is a fierce, human retelling where women speak, men scheme, and the gods stay silent. Justice is decided in a crowded hall—and on a stormy beach.

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Silk Malice
By Eve Dangerfield
4.6 / 5 • 598 ratings

A kidnapped debutante, four dangerous men who should be enemies, and a kingpin who never forgives. January Whitehall’s escape sets off a chain of bargains, betrayals, and burning desire that will force everyone to choose: vengeance or a future none of them ever expected.

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Psyche and Eros
By Luna McNamara
4.5 / 5 • 668 ratings

A mortal girl trained to be a hero. An ancient god sworn off love. Their secret marriage upends Olympian politics and sends her to the edge of death—and beyond—to decide what kind of love can survive gods, monsters, and time.

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Princes of Chaos (Royals of Forsyth U)
By Angel Lawson and Samantha Rue
4.7 / 5 • 546 ratings

Forsyth U runs on bloodlines, secrets, and the kind of power no one admits out loud. Verity Sinclaire crosses the bridge into East End and becomes the new Princess — then learns the crown is really a contract. Three adopted Princes, a ruthless King, and a house that watches everything force Verity to survive, adapt, and fight. This is a high-heat, high-stakes dark romance about control, consent, and what it costs to create a legacy.

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Pirate Enlightenment
By David Graeber
4.5 / 5 • 555 ratings

A handful of pirates, a coast full of clever traders, and a new kind of politics born on the beaches of Madagascar. This is the true, messy, human story behind legends like Libertalia—and how ordinary people used conversation, courage, and cunning to bend history.

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Georgie, All Along
By Kate Clayborn
4.4 / 5 • 533 ratings

When a Hollywood assistant loses her job and returns home, a messy meet-cute with a gruff neighbor, a loyal dog, and a long-lost teenage "friend fic" send her on a joyful, heart-twisting quest to figure out what she actually wants—now.

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Near Miss
By Stuart Woods and Brett Battles
4.7 / 5 • 100 ratings

A jealous suitor, a botched hit, a bomb redirected, and New York’s Russian mob on edge. When Stone Barrington becomes the reason a mob prince dies, a deadlier boss steps in—and sends a legendary assassin. What follows is a cat‑and‑mouse sprint from Manhattan clubs to a quiet Maine island and back to a black‑tie trap.

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Natural Beauty
By Ling Ling Huang
4.7 / 5 • 677 ratings

A gifted pianist takes a job at a luxury wellness brand to keep her parents alive, and gets pulled into a glimmering world where beauty is currency and control is disguised as care. What begins as a fresh start turns into a quiet horror: love, identity, and even her body are redesigned in the name of perfection.

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Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
By Rupert Holmes
4.7 / 5 • 210 ratings

There’s a secret college that recruits the desperate, the downtrodden, and the dangerously clever. Its specialty? Deletions—perfect murders—especially of bosses who make life unbearable. Three students. One mission each. And a sly dean who believes mercy is a strategy, not a rule.

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Moorewood Family Rules
By HelenKay Dimon
4.3 / 5 • 316 ratings

When a grifter family’s fixer comes home from prison, she brings a bodyguard, a deadline, and a flamethrower for old lies. What happens when the only rule that matters is your own?

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Mastering the Art of French Murder
By Colleen Cambridge
4.8 / 5 • 214 ratings

Paris, 1949. A dead woman in a cellar, a chef’s knife gone missing, and a stubbornly broken mayonnaise. When a Detroit-born tinkerer befriends Julia Child and stumbles into a murder tied to a coat-check scheme and Cold War whispers, dinner plans turn into detective work.

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Maame
By Jessica George
4.7 / 5 • 536 ratings

At 25, Madeleine “Maddie” Wright is the quiet center of a loud life—carer to her dad with Parkinson’s, daughter to a mother who is mostly in Ghana, and a woman trying to start her own life without breaking the one she holds together. This is a warm, funny, and unflinchingly honest coming‑of‑age story about family, grief, work, first love, and the courage it takes to become yourself.

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Lucky Red
By Claudia Cravens
4.4 / 5 • 226 ratings

A red‑haired drifter walks into Dodge City with nothing but grit, gets pulled into a bordello’s red‑glow family, falls hard for a gunfighter, and learns the cost of love and freedom on the open plains. This is a Western told from the woman who never looks away.

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Love, Theoretically
By Ali Hazelwood
4.6 / 5 • 362 ratings

A theoretical physicist with a secret side gig as a fake girlfriend collides with her professional nemesis—the man who once humiliated her entire field. When sparks fly during a cutthroat MIT interview, enemies become something dangerously close to lovers, and Elsie has to decide who she is when she stops performing for everyone else.

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Looking Glass Sound
By Catriona Ward
4.6 / 5 • 190 ratings

A seaside summer romance turns into a lifelong haunting. Wilder, a lonely teen, meets Harper and Nat on the cliffs of Whistler Bay. What begins as friendship spirals into urban legend, true crime, stolen stories, and a question that won’t die: who owns a life, and who gets to write it?

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Lone Women
By Victor LaValle
4.4 / 5 • 343 ratings

A woman burns down her past, drags a chained trunk toward a new life in 1915 Montana, and discovers the frontier demands a different kind of courage. Lone Women is a fierce, tender, and terrifying story about secrets, survival, and sisterhood on the edge of the world.

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Last Violent Call
By Chloe Gong
4.6 / 5 • 288 ratings

Two star-crossed lovers lay low in a water town, and two best friends race across Siberia on a murder-filled train. What ties them together is a promise: protect the ones they love, no matter what it costs.

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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By Lisa See
4.6 / 5 • 134 ratings

A Ming dynasty girl loses her mother, finds a calling, and dares to heal women in a world that tells her not to. This is Tan Yunxian’s life—stitched by friendship, tested by power, and written into history.

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Künstlers in Paradise
By Cathleen Schine
4.3 / 5 • 348 ratings

A ninety-three-year-old Viennese émigré, a drifting grandson, and a city that makes reinvention feel possible. In a sunlit Venice bungalow, Mamie Künstler tells the story of escaping Vienna, finding oranges and ocean fog, and crossing paths with giants like Greta Garbo and Arnold Schoenberg. While the pandemic stills Los Angeles, her stories bring a whole world roaring back to life—and give Julian a way forward.

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Just as You Are
By Camille Kellogg
4.5 / 5 • 193 ratings

Liz Baker wants two things: to write something that matters and to finally figure herself out. Then a brooding new owner strides into her queer magazine and upends her job, her friend group, and her heart.

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I Have Some Questions for You
By Rebecca Makkai
4.7 / 5 • 381 ratings

A podcaster returns to her old boarding school to teach for two weeks. A student’s true-crime project reopens the 1995 death of a classmate. Memory, bias, internet obsession, and a fresh piece of evidence collide. What really happened to Thalia Keith—and what does justice even look like decades later?

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Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?)
By Zach Zimmerman
4.7 / 5 • 256 ratings

A queer kid raised Southern Baptist grows up to be a New York comedian and learns to hold faith, family, love, and capitalism with one hand—while keeping the other hand free for breadsticks. It’s funny, sharp, and tender enough to sting.

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Independence
By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In 1946 Bengal, three sisters watch their lives split apart by riot, grief, love, and Partition—until each must decide what “independence” costs, and whether family can be rebuilt from ash, exile, and impossible choices.

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If It Sounds Like a Quack…: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
By Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In the richest health-care system on Earth, a dentist sells healing lasers, an herbalist promises near-miracle cures, a pH guru courts cancer patients, leeches return as therapy, prayer replaces insulin, and a bleach “church” goes global—until the consequences collide with law, politics, and pandemic.

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Hungry Ghosts
By Kevin Jared Hosein
4.6 / 5 • 515 ratings

In a flooded sugarcane plain in 1940s Trinidad, a missing magnate, a desperate wife, and a barrack family tangled in poverty and pride crash into each other’s lives. Secrets smolder, a boy vanishes, and a whole community is forced to face what it’s willing to forgive—and what it can’t.

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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
By Regan Penaluna
4.6 / 5 • 648 ratings

A philosopher loses herself in a field that doubts her, then finds her voice in the lives of four forgotten women who thought their way to freedom. This is a story about philosophy, patriarchy, and the stubborn work of becoming a person.

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Hijab Butch Blues
By Lamya H
4.7 / 5 • 153 ratings

A queer, hijabi memoir that braids scripture and real life into one moving conversation with God. Come for the stories, stay for the courage to live your own.

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Hang the Moon
By Jeannette Walls
4.4 / 5 • 614 ratings

A fast girl with a wagon grows up to steer bootleg caravans through the Blue Ridge—then rebuilds everything fire and grief try to take. In Sallie Kincaid’s voice, this is family, feuds, and fierce love in Prohibition Virginia—told like a story you can’t stop listening to.

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Go as a River
By Shelley Read
4.5 / 5 • 322 ratings

When a Colorado town is drowned to make way for a reservoir, one young woman’s secret love, loss, and fierce will to begin again become the current that carries her toward a long-awaited reunion.

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Gone to the Wolves
By John Wray
4.7 / 5 • 119 ratings

Three kids meet under Florida’s dead-blue sky and choose the loudest possible road out. Metal is their map, love is their fuel, and somewhere past the last show is a door no one should open. This is a fast, bruised, unforgettable ride.

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Forgery: Valenshek Legacy #2
By Tate James
4.3 / 5 • 313 ratings

A master forger is forced to become family to the mob. A gentleman thief can’t stay away—until The Game turns deadly. When a priceless Van Gogh, a rigged scavenger hunt, and a brutal betrayal collide, love becomes a liability and survival becomes an art form.

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Fire Rush
By Jacqueline Crooks
4.3 / 5 • 563 ratings

Late-night dub, smoke-thick crypts, and a love that cannot survive Babylon’s grip. When Yamaye dances, she calls the living and the dead—until a police cell takes her future and a London riot sets her world on fire. She flees across waters toward the rebel heart of Jamaica, where music, memory, and magic demand truth.

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Everything Is Just Beginning
By Erin Bartels
4.8 / 5 • 531 ratings

New Year’s Eve, 1989. A down-on-his-luck guitarist slips into a music legend’s party and meets the girl who will change his life. In the year that follows, love, songs, and second chances collide as a small band of misfits tries to make something true before life pulls them apart.

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Escape the Reaper
By Ashley N. Rostek
4.5 / 5 • 320 ratings

Kidnapped by a white supremacist gang, Maura Quinn claws her way out with a baby on her hip and a death sentence in her eyes. Back home, she’s forced to lead a crime family, test an alliance with the enemy, and hunt the traitor in her bloodline before he hunts her. This is a brutal love story and a war story—about choosing who you are when everything breaks.

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Encore in Death
By J. D. Robb
4.6 / 5 • 322 ratings

A glittering Broadway party turns deadly when a beloved leading man collapses with a glass in his hand. Lieutenant Eve Dallas steps into a room full of stars, egos, and secrets—and follows the poison’s trail from old grudges to a killer who won’t surrender the spotlight.

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Empty Theatre; or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria & Empress Sisi
By Jac Jemc
4.3 / 5 • 169 ratings

Two glittering crowns. Two restless hearts. One century racing toward change. Step inside the lives of Bavaria’s “dream king” and Austria’s legendary Empress Sisi as love, duty, art, and power collide—and learn why beauty alone could never be enough.

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Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
By Rita Chang-Eppig
4.7 / 5 • 577 ratings

A pirate queen fights to keep her people alive as empires circle and seas shift beneath her feet. Across storms, betrayals, and one final bargain with power, Shek Yeung learns what leadership really costs—and what kind of freedom is left when the ocean stops answering your prayers.

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Death of a Bookseller
By Alice Slater
4.3 / 5 • 503 ratings

Two booksellers. One is soft light and cinnamon tea; the other is midnight alleys and murder podcasts. When obsession crosses the line, a London bookshop becomes the stage for a chilling, all-too-human thriller about fandom, grief, and the stories we tell to survive.

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Cursed Bread
By Sophie Mackintosh
4.6 / 5 • 141 ratings

A quiet baker’s wife falls under the spell of a glamorous newcomer and her magnetic husband. Desire burns through a small town, then the bread turns strange—and people begin to break. This is the story of longing, power, and the terrible cost of wanting more than your life will give you.

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Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K‑Pop
By Martin Puchner
4.5 / 5 • 179 ratings

From torchlit caves to K‑pop light sticks, this is the fast, human story of how culture moves, breaks, and remakes us. We’ll meet a sculptor who hid Nefertiti, a king who carved messages into stone, a monk who crossed deserts for lost pages, and a modern wave that swamped the world. Come hear how we inherit, steal, argue with, and pass on what we make.

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Conquest
By Nina Allan
4.3 / 5 • 689 ratings

A missing coder, a steadfast lover, and a burned-out detective are pulled into a web of music, myth, and modern conspiracy. Is there a war already happening beneath our feet—or only inside our heads? Conquest drifts between lives, essays, and an eerie novella to ask what we choose to believe.

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By Siddharth Kara
4.7 / 5 • 556 ratings

A phone in your hand. A car in your driveway. And beneath them, a world of tunnels, dust, and children. This is the human story hidden inside our batteries—and the journey into the Congo that refuses to look away.

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Clytemnestra
By Costanza Casati
4.8 / 5 • 607 ratings

She was raised among spears and songs, taught to run, fight, and rule. Before the world called her a monster, Clytemnestra was a sister, a wife, a mother—and a queen. This is the story behind the legend, told with fire, steel, and a human pulse.

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Close to Home
By Michael Magee
4.5 / 5 • 586 ratings

A young man in West Belfast throws a punch that changes everything. What follows is a fast, tender, and brutally honest journey through nights out, courtrooms, community service, and the long shadow of family secrets. It’s a love story to a place, to people who are both broken and bright, and to the stubborn hope of starting again.

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Chick Magnet
By Emma Barry
4.6 / 5 • 219 ratings

A viral chicken expert moves to a small Southern town for a hard reset and collides with a grumpy local vet who hates the chicken trend—and can’t stop thinking about her. Between runaway hens, viral videos, and a town that watches everything, Nic and Will learn to tell the truth, ask for help, and choose each other.

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Chain-Gang All-Stars
By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.5 / 5 • 653 ratings

Two women fall in love inside a modern-day gladiator system built on profit, spectacle, and blood. One last week on the Circuit, one final rule change, and a decision that turns a death game into a mirror held up to all of us.

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Call and Response
By Gothataone Moeng
4.5 / 5 • 648 ratings

A Botswana village hums with weddings, funerals, first loves, and the pull of home. In nine vivid stories, girls and women search for footing—between duty and desire, tradition and change. The result is intimate, warm, and unshakably human.

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Biography of X
By Catherine Lacey
4.4 / 5 • 550 ratings

A widow sets out to overturn a celebrated but suspect biography of her wife, the radical artist known only as X. What starts as a correction becomes a relentless journey through love, lies, art, and the split soul of a country.

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Big Swiss
By Jen Beagin
4.6 / 5 • 668 ratings

A deadpan transcriber in a haunted farmhouse falls for the woman whose therapy sessions she’s typing—then lies about who she is. Love, trauma, and a small town’s gossip machine collide as secrets unravel, a violent past resurfaces, and a pair of miniature donkeys trot in like unlikely therapists.

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Before She Finds Me
By Heather Chavez
4.4 / 5 • 459 ratings

Move-in day at a small California college explodes into a sniper attack. A mother shields her daughter and starts asking the one question no one wants to ask: what if it wasn’t random? Across town, a pregnant contract killer realizes her husband took the wrong job—and shot the wrong woman.

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Bad Cree
By Jessica Johns
4.4 / 5 • 685 ratings

A young Cree woman wakes up with winter in her hands, crows at her window, and her dead sister calling her back home. What she finds there is grief with teeth—and a family strong enough to face it.

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A Tournament of Crowns (A Trial of Sorcerers, Book Three)
By Elise Kova
4.6 / 5 • 153 ratings

A young sorcerer steps into a glittering international tournament—and straight into a zealot’s war. Eira must outthink political games, outfight magical rivals, and choose who to trust with her heart. When the arena explodes and a false champion rises, she gambles everything to stop him.

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A Most Agreeable Murder
By Julia Seales
4.7 / 5 • 201 ratings

A Regency ball, a charming stranger, a sudden death — and a secretly sleuthing heroine who refuses to mind her manners when murder strikes. Come to Stabmort Park for the dance. Stay for the duel of wits, the frogs that glow in the dark, and a partnership that sparks more than clues.

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A Midsummer Night’s Scheme
By Harper Kincaid
4.7 / 5 • 162 ratings

A Broadway golden boy comes home, a car fills with snakes, and a small Virginia town starts to unravel. Quinn Caine—bookbinder, dog mom, and hopeful romantic—finds herself balancing love, family drama, and a chilling hunt for a killer who stages crimes like theater. Cozy charm meets high stakes in this warm, witty, and twisty mystery.

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A House With Good Bones
By T. Kingfisher
4.7 / 5 • 663 ratings

When an entomologist goes home to her mother’s tidy Southern subdivision, she doesn’t expect vultures on the mailbox, roses without a single bug, or a grandmother who won’t stay in her grave. Family secrets bloom, old magic wakes, and a house with “good bones” becomes the stage for something hungry to come crawling from the dirt.

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A Country You Can Leave
By Asale Angel-Ajani
4.5 / 5 • 458 ratings

A sharp, tender mother-daughter story set in a desert trailer park, where survival depends on quick wits, borrowed rules, and a stubborn refusal to look away. Lara, a Black Cuban-Russian teen, learns how love, rage, and class collide as she comes of age under the blazing California sun.

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Atalanta
By Jennifer Saint
4.7 / 5 • 266 ratings

A girl left on a mountainside grows into the fastest mortal alive, raised by bears and trained by a goddess. She outruns heroes, sails with the Argonauts, faces giants and storms, and learns that glory can come at a terrible cost.

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Ana María and the Fox
By Liana De la Rosa
4.5 / 5 • 501 ratings

Fleeing war-torn Mexico for Victorian London, a proud heiress and an ambitious abolitionist MP collide at the very moment their lives demand courage. Between glittering ballrooms, secret plots, and a marriage of necessity-turned-destiny, love becomes the most daring act of all.

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All the Dangerous Things
By Stacy Willingham
4.4 / 5 • 201 ratings

A year without sleep. A child gone in the night. A mother who can’t trust her own memories. Step inside Isabelle Drake’s waking nightmare as she hunts for her missing son, relives a buried past, and learns what really happens when grief, guilt, and obsession turn into a story you can’t stop telling yourself.

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
By Jeannette Walls
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

After spotting her homeless mother digging through a New York Dumpster, Jeannette Walls unspools the story she’s tried to outgrow: a childhood of brilliance and neglect, big dreams and bigger lies, and the hard, determined climb toward a life she chose for herself.

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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In the 1950s, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas travels with her family into the unmapped interior of the Kalahari and meets the Ju/wa Bushmen—people still living by hunting and gathering—then follows their knowledge, social rules, and spiritual life all the way to the modern collapse of the Old Way.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By Jane Jacobs
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Jane Jacobs dismantles the comforting myths of “good planning” and shows how real city neighborhoods actually stay safe, grow prosperous, and regenerate—through sidewalks, mixed uses, small blocks, old buildings, and dense human life that planners keep trying to erase.

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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
By Alice Munro
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In nine tightly observed stories, lives tilt on small deceptions, sudden loyalties, and private bargains—until a forged love letter becomes a marriage, a dying man’s joke becomes a widow’s armor, and memory itself proves less faithful than consequence.

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A Dog’s Purpose
By W. Bruce Cameron
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

A dog is born, dies, and is born again—over and over—each life bringing new owners, new lessons, and one haunting question that grows louder with every goodbye: what is my purpose, and who am I meant to save?

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A Dog’s Promise
By W. Bruce Cameron
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Bailey believes he’s finally reached a perfect afterlife—until Ethan and CJ ask him to return once more, with his memories wiped, to keep a promise that will stitch together a fractured family, a lost love, and a purpose that outlasts any single lifetime.

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Cultish
By Based on a summary referencing Amanda Montell
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In a world where many people feel lonely, uncertain, and eager for meaning, this gentle guide explores how “cultish” groups—from extreme movements to wellness trends and online gurus—use language, belonging, and identity to pull people in, and how to stay grounded.

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Factfulness
By Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
4.2 / 5 • 558 ratings

Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Inventing the Future
By Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
4.0 / 5 • 53 ratings

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.4 / 5 • 39 ratings

Empower yourself, empower your daughter

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Me and White Supremacy
By Layla Saad
4.2 / 5 • 162 ratings

How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World

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Excellent Daughters
By Katherine Zoepf
3.4 / 5 • 14 ratings

The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

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Soccernomics
By Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
4.2 / 5 • 61 ratings

Why England Loses; Why Germany, Spain, and France Win; and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport

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The Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka
4.6 / 5 • 110 ratings

A Novella on the Effects of Alienation on the Mind and Body

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Making the Modern World
By Vaclav Smil
3.8 / 5 • 32 ratings

Materials and Dematerialization

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Them
By Ben Sasse
4.4 / 5 • 50 ratings

Why We Hate Each Other – and How to Heal

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In the Name of Identity
By Amin Maalouf
3.8 / 5 • 29 ratings

Violence and the Need to Belong

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Half the Sky
By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
4.5 / 5 • 17 ratings

Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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Evicted
By Matthew Desmond
4.0 / 5 • 58 ratings

Poverty and Profit in the American City

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Nice Racism
By Robin DiAngelo
3.1 / 5 • 304 ratings

How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

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Distinction
By Pierre Bourdieu
4.6 / 5 • 63 ratings

A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

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Modern Romance
By Aziz Ansari and Erik Klinenberg
3.6 / 5 • 119 ratings

Texting, sexting and more: How Aziz Ansari sees love in the 21st century

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Marriage, a History
By Stephanie Coontz
4.2 / 5 • 38 ratings

How Love Conquered Marriage

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Fifty Shades of Grey
By E. L. James
3.0 / 5 • 144 ratings

An Erotic Romance Between a College Graduate and a Mysterious CEO

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Playing the Whore
By Melissa Gira Grant
3.4 / 5 • 153 ratings

The Work of Sex Work

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All About Love
By bell hooks
4.4 / 5 • 208 ratings

New Visions

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Supremacy
By Parmy Olson
0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

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The Singularity Is Nearer
By Ray Kurzweil
4.4 / 5 • 205 ratings

When We Merge with AI

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams
4.3 / 5 • 216 ratings

A Novel

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Survival of the Prettiest
By Nancy Etcoff
4.4 / 5 • 33 ratings

The Science of Beauty

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Blueprint
By Nicholas A. Christakis
4.2 / 5 • 91 ratings

The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

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This Is Your Brain on Music
By Daniel Levitin
4.1 / 5 • 115 ratings

Understanding a Human Obsession

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Size
By Vaclav Smil
3.0 / 5 • 46 ratings

How It Explains the World

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Sex at Dawn
By Summary Narration (Based on Provided Content)
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

This gentle exploration invites listeners to untangle love from sex, question long-held cultural assumptions about monogamy and desire, and consider what human history may reveal about intimacy, partnership, and shared responsibility—without shame, blame, or fear.

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Simply Complexity
By Neil F. Johnson
3.9 / 5 • 66 ratings

A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory

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Soccermatics
By David Sumpter
3.9 / 5 • 48 ratings

Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

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How Music Works
By David Byrne
4.5 / 5 • 127 ratings

How circumstance and creativity collide in tune

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Starry Messenger
By Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.3 / 5 • 496 ratings

Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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A City on Mars
By Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith
3.5 / 5 • 51 ratings

Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

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The Strange Order of Things
By Antonio Damasio
4.3 / 5 • 100 ratings

Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

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Extra Life
By Steven Johnson
4.4 / 5 • 61 ratings

A Short History of Living Longer

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The Age of Empathy
By Frans de Waal
4.2 / 5 • 96 ratings

Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society

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Skin in the Game
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.1 / 5 • 515 ratings

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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The Knowledge
By Lewis Dartnell
3.8 / 5 • 14 ratings

How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

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Foolproof
By Greg Ip
4.3 / 5 • 12 ratings

Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe

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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
By Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
3.8 / 5 • 433 ratings

Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

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Superior
By Angela Saini
4.2 / 5 • 67 ratings

The Return of Race Science

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Proust and the Squid
By Maryanne Wolf
4.5 / 5 • 227 ratings

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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Siddhartha
By Hermann Hesse
4.6 / 5 • 271 ratings

Rediscover the Meaning of Life With This Classic

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Purity and Danger
By Mary Douglas
3.8 / 5 • 159 ratings

Investigations on the Human Obsession With Dirt and Cleanliness

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Young Goodman Brown
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.2 / 5 • 13 ratings

A Tale of Morality, Betrayal and The Dark Secrets of Puritanism

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The Power of Myth
By Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
4.2 / 5 • 187 ratings

From ancient myths to Han Solo

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The Book of Ruth
By Jane Hamilton
4.5 / 5 • 654 ratings

Ruth grows up in a small Illinois town, learns to see through meanness, and keeps choosing love even when it’s the last thing that seems possible. This is her story—told in one voice you won’t forget.

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A Green Light
By Matthew Rohrer
4.4 / 5 • 379 ratings

A Green Light is a strange, tender walk through city streets, mossy ridges, crowded parties, war memories, and the quiet edges of belief. Matthew Rohrer talks like a friend who notices everything—beauty, fear, humor, and the moments that don’t fit. This adaptation turns his poems into one continuous, human story you can listen to in a single sitting.

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Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury
4.7 / 5 • 67 ratings

Explore a Future Where Books Burn

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann
4.7 / 5 • 614 ratings

A British warship vanishes near Cape Horn, then washes a handful of survivors into history’s spotlight. Some claim heroism. Others cry mutiny. Between the storms, scurvy, and hunger, their stories split—and the truth could mean the noose. This is a relentless, human tale about order falling apart and what people do to survive.

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The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon
4.4 / 5 • 152 ratings

A brutal northern winter locks a Maine town under ice. A dead man is found in the river, a pastor’s wife swears she was raped by a judge, and midwife Martha Ballard—mother, healer, and keeper of hard truths—has to pull the town’s secrets into daylight. This is the story of justice scraped from frozen ground, and a woman who refuses to look away.

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The Adventures of Amina al‑Sirafi
By Shannon Chakraborty
4.4 / 5 • 660 ratings

A retired pirate captain gets dragged back to sea for one last job: rescue a vanished girl, outwit a charming demon ex, and stop a Frankish sorcerer from weaponizing an ancient lunar relic. It’s funny, ferocious, and full of salt and stars.

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100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
By Ken Jennings
4.6 / 5 • 113 ratings

Where do we go when we go? From ice-dark Inuit underworlds to pixel-perfect cloud servers and a certain forked-up neighborhood, this tour collects the world’s great departures. With humor, heart, and a lot of strange maps, we follow how humans turn grief into geography—and what that tells us about living well before we leave.

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1984
By George Orwell
4.5 / 5 • 688 ratings

A weary clerk in a future London dares to write what he truly thinks. One secret diary leads him into love, rebellion, and the cold machinery of a state that edits reality itself.

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Suspicious Minds
By Rob Brotherton
3.5 / 5 • 62 ratings

Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories

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Subtract
By Leidy Klotz
4.1 / 5 • 1290 ratings

The Untapped Science of Less

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A Geography of Time
By Robert N. Levine
0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

On Tempo, Culture, And The Pace Of Life

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The Optimist's Telescope
By Bina Venkataraman
4.3 / 5 • 34 ratings

Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

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The Bell Jar
By Sylvia Plath
4.2 / 5 • 169 ratings

A Young Woman’s Experience With Mental Illness and Recovery

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Immigrants
By Philippe Legrain
4.0 / 5 • 43 ratings

Your Country Needs Them

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The Wisdom of Crowds
By James Surowiecki
4.4 / 5 • 92 ratings

Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few

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Stolen Focus
By Johann Hari
4.5 / 5 • 2027 ratings

Why You Can't Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again

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The Project
By David A. Graham
0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

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The Black Agenda
By Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
3.5 / 5 • 169 ratings

Bold Solutions for a Broken System

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Our Malady
By Timothy Snyder
3.5 / 5 • 234 ratings

Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

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The Gun Debate
By Philip J. Cook and Kristin A. Goss
3.8 / 5 • 181 ratings

What Everyone Needs to Know®

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The Righteous Mind
By Jonathan Haidt
3.8 / 5 • 4 ratings

Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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Animal Farm
By George Orwell
4.8 / 5 • 491 ratings

A Political Satire on the Corrupting Influence of Power

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Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
4.4 / 5 • 392 ratings

A Dystopian Novel on the Perils of State Control & New Technology

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The Reckoning
By Mary L. Trump
3.2 / 5 • 216 ratings

Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

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The Shadow Docket
By Stephen Vladeck
4.5 / 5 • 14 ratings

How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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The Locust Effect
By Gary A. Haugen and Victor Boutros
4.5 / 5 • 24 ratings

Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

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What Unites Us
By Dan Rather with Elliot Kirschner
4.0 / 5 • 39 ratings

Reflections on Patriotism

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Wildland
By Evan Osnos
3.3 / 5 • 37 ratings

The Making of America's Fury

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The Sacred and the Profane
By Mircea Eliade
3.4 / 5 • 61 ratings

The Nature of Religion

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Sophie's World
By Jostein Gaarder
4.3 / 5 • 90 ratings

A Novel about the History of Philosophy

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Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
4.6 / 5 • 196 ratings

The Problem of Slavery and Its Treatment of Human Beings

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Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.6 / 5 • 494 ratings

A Philosophical Masterpiece on the Boundaries Between Good and Evil

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The Human Condition
By Hannah Arendt
3.8 / 5 • 128 ratings

Uncover the Dangers of Humanity’s Increasing Capabilities

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The Second Sex
By Simone de Beauvoir
4.4 / 5 • 218 ratings

The feminist classic about how woman has been shaped into the “other” sex

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The Life You Can Save
By Peter Singer
4.4 / 5 • 195 ratings

How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

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The Odyssey
By Homer
4.6 / 5 • 106 ratings

The Ancient Greek Epic Poem About A Hero's Journey Home

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A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas
4.6 / 5 • 40 ratings

A Fantasy and Romance Novel Filled With Dangerous Faeries

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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
By Justin E.H. Smith
4.0 / 5 • 145 ratings

A History, A Philosophy, A Warning

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On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder
3.5 / 5 • 2 ratings

Explore Freedom’s Deeper Meaning Beyond Resistance and Control

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The Open Society and Its Enemies
By Karl R. Popper
4.1 / 5 • 86 ratings

Examine the Defense of Democracy and Freedom

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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
By Gregory Maguire
4.6 / 5 • 293 ratings

Before there was a Witch, there was a child named Elphaba. Green-skinned, sharp-minded, and impossible to place in a world that fears what it cannot explain. Here’s how she became a legend—and why her story won’t let go of yours.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By Stephen Chbosky
4.8 / 5 • 562 ratings

A shy freshman writes anonymous letters as he stumbles into friendship, first love, family secrets, and the messy work of growing up. What he finds isn’t a fix or a formula. It’s a way to be present in his own life.

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It's Not Summer Without You
By Jenny Han
4.6 / 5 • 402 ratings

One summer ended with a kiss and a promise. The next begins with a funeral, a missing boy, and a house that holds everything together. Belly and the Fisher brothers are back at Cousins, trying to save what’s left—of a home, of a family, and of first love. Grief changes them. So does choice.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty
By Jenny Han
4.6 / 5 • 550 ratings

Every summer at Cousins Beach, Belly waited for magic. The year she turns pretty, everything changes—friendships, first love, and the truth no one wants to say out loud. This is a warm, achey, coming-of-age told in salty air and late-night swims.

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Allegedly
By Tiffany D. Jackson
4.8 / 5 • 507 ratings

At nine years old, Mary B. Addison became the face of a crime everyone wanted to solve and no one wanted to look at closely. Now she’s sixteen, pregnant, and stuck in a brutal group home—trying to hold on to a future while the past won’t let go. This is her fight to be believed, to be safe, and to be more than the worst thing the world thinks she did.

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Hidden Pictures
By Jason Rekulak
4.5 / 5 • 572 ratings

Fresh out of rehab and desperate for a new start, Mallory Quinn lands a nanny job with a perfect family in a perfect town. Their sweet five-year-old draws like a budding Picasso. Then his pictures turn into scenes of a woman being murdered—and the drawings seem to be getting made by someone else’s hand.

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Pretty Girls
By Karin Slaughter
4.5 / 5 • 505 ratings

Twenty years after Julia vanished, her sisters collide with a horror that’s bigger, older, and closer than anyone imagined. One husband dies in an alley. One sister is taken. And a quiet suburban life cracks open to reveal a nightmare running beneath it all. This is a family’s search for truth, and the cost of finding it.

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The Porn Myth
By Matt Fradd
4.0 / 5 • 169 ratings

Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography

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Man Enough
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3.2 / 5 • 27 ratings

Undefining My Masculinity

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The Rebel
By Albert Camus
4.0 / 5 • 1 ratings

An Essay on Man in Revolt

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Optimal Illusions
By Coco Krumme
3.2 / 5 • 65 ratings

The False Promise of Optimization

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Of Boys and Men
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3.9 / 5 • 17 ratings

Why Modern Men Struggle, Why It Matters, and How to Fix It

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

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By Carlos Whittaker
3.5 / 5 • 2 ratings

Seven Screen-Free Weeks to Rediscover the Art of Being Human

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The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory
By Dedeker Winston
3.8 / 5 • 25 ratings

Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love

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The Stranger
By Albert Camus
4.5 / 5 • 124 ratings

A Philosophical Journey Into Alienation

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Smile or Die
By Barbara Ehrenreich
3.6 / 5 • 89 ratings

How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World

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The Gift of Not Belonging
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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners

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Calling Bullshit
By Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
4.4 / 5 • 128 ratings

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Norwegian Wood
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4.2 / 5 • 101 ratings

A Lyrical Journey Through Love, Loss, and the Melodies of Life

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The Science of Revenge
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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction - and How to Overcome It

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Future Shock
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4.4 / 5 • 11 ratings

A Handbook for Adjustment in the Face of Accelerating Change

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The Argonauts
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3.8 / 5 • 5 ratings

A Groundbreaking Exploration of Love, Gender, and Family

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3.7 / 5 • 15 ratings

Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

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Eclipse of Reason
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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

On Reclaiming the Individual and Fighting Oppression

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification

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4.4 / 5 • 361 ratings

On Human Life and How to Play It

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4.0 / 5 • 170 ratings

Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

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4.1 / 5 • 24 ratings

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4.1 / 5 • 157 ratings

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The End of Race Politics
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4.2 / 5 • 35 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 135 ratings

Uncover Key Ethical Questions Shaping Our Actions and Choices

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4.3 / 5 • 27 ratings

Wit and Wisdom on Human Folly

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3.6 / 5 • 54 ratings

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2.7 / 5 • 76 ratings

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4.6 / 5 • 48 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 4 ratings

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3.6 / 5 • 129 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 148 ratings

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3.5 / 5 • 20 ratings

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By Friedrich Nietzsche
3.7 / 5 • 75 ratings

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The Measure
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4.3 / 5 • 332 ratings

One morning, every adult on Earth wakes to a small wooden box on their doorstep. Inside is a single string, its length a promise—or a warning—about the span of a life. What would you do if you knew your measure? In this intimate, propulsive story, eight lives tangle and hold as love, fear, power, and hope collide under a clock everyone can suddenly see.

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Arizona Nights
By Stewart Edward White
4.6 / 5 • 372 ratings

Gun smoke, desert stars, and stories told by firelight. Arizona Nights is a rough-and-tender tour through ranch country—stampedes, rustlers, long rides, and the kind of moral choices that hit hard. Come sit by the campfire; these are the tales cowboys tell when the coffee is strong and the night won’t quit.

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Raising Girls Who Like Themselves
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5.0 / 5 • 1 ratings

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3.3 / 5 • 9 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 231 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 147 ratings

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A Life on Our Planet
By Sir David Attenborough
4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

In a changing world, biodiversity is more than beauty—it is the living system that steadies climate, feeds communities, and protects the future, and this gentle journey explores how everyday choices and bold collective action can help restore balance.

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Moby Dick
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4.4 / 5 • 125 ratings

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The Climate Book
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3.8 / 5 • 90 ratings

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3.4 / 5 • 113 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 113 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 126 ratings

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

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3.8 / 5 • 305 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 2 ratings

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3.9 / 5 • 48 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 22 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 98 ratings

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3.3 / 5 • 3 ratings

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3.5 / 5 • 44 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 89 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 123 ratings

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4.8 / 5 • 150 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 15 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 510 ratings

Change Your Thinking, Build Bank, and Claim Your Independence

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4.8 / 5 • 334 ratings

A landslide seals off a New Zealand town and opens the door to an audacious heist—of land, money, and truth. A guerrilla gardening collective collides with a tech billionaire running a secret operation, and every choice starts to cost a life.

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4.1 / 5 • 55 ratings

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3.9 / 5 • 76 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

When a furious ex-wife, a fame-obsessed designer, and an overwhelmed artist-mom collide in Greenwich Village, a “borrowed” baby turns a neighborhood into a pressure cooker—forcing everyone to discover where duty ends, delight begins, and love can still surprise you.

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3.4 / 5 • 253 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 346 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 34 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 70 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 63 ratings

Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free

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4.1 / 5 • 129 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 20 ratings

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3.4 / 5 • 130 ratings

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4.7 / 5 • 16 ratings

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3.8 / 5 • 20 ratings

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4.6 / 5 • 245 ratings

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 21 ratings

How Power Works In Our Hyperconnected World – and How To Make It Work For You

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4.0 / 5 • 558 ratings

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3.4 / 5 • 69 ratings

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2.7 / 5 • 33 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 10 ratings

Uncover a Rich Tapestry of Family, Love, and Change

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4.1 / 5 • 649 ratings

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4.4 / 5 • 25 ratings

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4.6 / 5 • 125 ratings

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4.6 / 5 • 23 ratings

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4.6 / 5 • 32 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 263 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 72 ratings

Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

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4.0 / 5 • 51 ratings

A new way of looking at human history and psychology

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 20 ratings

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4.6 / 5 • 45 ratings

An Ancient Greek Tragedy on Civil Disobedience, Morality and Gender

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3.8 / 5 • 32 ratings

Dig Deep into Democracy and Dictatorship

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4.3 / 5 • 274 ratings

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3.9 / 5 • 147 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 41 ratings

Explore a Labyrinth of Absurdity in This Timeless Legal Odyssey

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2.9 / 5 • 125 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 1 ratings

Exploring Myths that Shape our Identity and Reality

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4.1 / 5 • 41 ratings

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 296 ratings

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0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

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By James Baldwin
4.3 / 5 • 113 ratings

A Compelling Exploration of Racism, Religion, and Resilience

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4.3 / 5 • 66 ratings

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4.7 / 5 • 144 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 56 ratings

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4.0 / 5 • 92 ratings

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4.4 / 5 • 443 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 95 ratings

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3.7 / 5 • 33 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

Through the image of a “Veil,” Du Bois gently but unflinchingly describes what it means to live with double-consciousness in America—and why education, dignity, and shared civic life are essential for any nation that hopes to become whole.

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4.2 / 5 • 26 ratings

Struggle, Love, and Adventure Unfold

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How New Ideas Emerge

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A timeless tale of friendship, mortality, and the search for meaning

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The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

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4.2 / 5 • 235 ratings

A Historical Novel on the Irrationality of Human Behavior in War

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4.4 / 5 • 37 ratings

A Haunting Odyssey Through a Post-Apocalyptic World

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By Jonathan Blitzer
4.0 / 5 • 7 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 523 ratings

How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

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Western Conceptions of the Orient

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4.2 / 5 • 107 ratings

Explore the Hidden Powers That Govern Our World Today

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4.5 / 5 • 75 ratings

Dive into a Future Galactic Empire in This Science-Fiction Classic

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4.2 / 5 • 156 ratings

How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

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4.5 / 5 • 148 ratings

An Alternative View of the Feminist Struggle for Liberation

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4.2 / 5 • 85 ratings

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How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

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3.4 / 5 • 117 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 109 ratings

The Greek Epic on the End of the Trojan War and Achilles’ Wrath

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Examine the Roots of Conflict and the Path to Justice in Palestine

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4.6 / 5 • 54 ratings

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By Based on ideas discussed by Isabel Wilkerson (summary content provided by user)
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Through vivid stories—from monument removals in New Orleans to Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to India—this narration gently explores how caste-like hierarchies shape culture, health, politics, and everyday interactions, and how awareness can open the door to change.

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4.4 / 5 • 307 ratings

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Discover Cultural Divide in Colonial India

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3.5 / 5 • 77 ratings

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4.2 / 5 • 56 ratings

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4.3 / 5 • 64 ratings

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3.0 / 5 • 10 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 39 ratings

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3.5 / 5 • 12 ratings

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4.5 / 5 • 408 ratings

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