The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction

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  The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

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  The House on the Borderland

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  Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

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  Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America

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  On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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  Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

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  The Maid's Secret (Molly the Maid, #3)

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  My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

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  The Tiger's Wife

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  The Names

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