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A Fine Old Conflict 4 struggle4progress Oct 2017 Oct 2017 2 1238
A great book for those interested in outer space and being an astronaut 2 Ohiogal Jan 2018 Feb 2018 2 1446
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer 4 Zorro Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1370
A History of Weapons: 0 Neoma Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1370
A Lightning Rod in the Storm Over America’s Class Divide - Charles Murray's "Coming Apart" 3 groovedaddy Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2303
A list of must read non-fictions 4 SpearthrowerOwl Jun 2013 Jul 2013 3 2763
A look at the tumultuous life of 'Persepolis' as it turns 20 0 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 1466
A Nerdy-Dirty Primer on Primal Urges 1 groovedaddy Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 1820
A note from Douglas Preston 0 hermetic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 959
A shout-out for a friend's book 0 Orrex Mar 2017 Mar 2017 1 1523
A World Lit Only By Fire 2 Zorro Dec 2020 Dec 2020 9 1750
About that new book 2 snowybirdie May 2021 May 2021 2 2430
After 54 Years, We Fell in Love. After Five Months, I Got Leukemia. 3 elleng May 2017 May 2017 3 6522
After the War: A Southern Tour - May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866 1 SeattleVet Sep 2017 Sep 2017 2 1727
Aldrich Ames 1 jeffrey_pdx Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1686
Am reading Philomena by Martin Sixsmith 9 oldandhappy Feb 2015 Jun 2015 0 2436
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America 11 Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 Jun 2021 5 5968
American Women of the Far Right 7 lunasun Jul 2019 Aug 2019 5 1592
An American Family by Khizr Khan 0 beveeheart Nov 2017 Nov 2017 6 1098
An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage 3 oldandhappy Apr 2015 Apr 2015 0 1826
an infuriating book: "White Rage" 1 flyingfysh Sep 2019 Sep 2019 0 1624
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. (Nature) 0 sl8 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 1577
Ann Rule died. RIP 4 leftyladyfrommo Jul 2015 Aug 2015 2 1914
Any comments on a history book, I am rewriting? 2 real Cannabis calm Oct 2019 Nov 2019 0 1795
Any DUers here 1 Ohiogal Apr 2018 Apr 2018 2 1282
Any suggestions for non-fiction or poetry for a sharp 91 year old woman? 9 LuckyLib Sep 2014 Jun 2015 0 2653
Anybody else reading "A Promised Land" by Barack Obama? 9 AngryOldDem Dec 2020 Dec 2020 4 1920
Anybody else reading 'Uncontrolled Spread'? 2 Tomconroy Oct 2021 Oct 2021 1 1643
Anybody know about BAM! ? 4 justgamma Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2105
Anybody read Tim Millers new book? I'm 2 arthritisR_US Jul 2022 Jul 2022 0 2503

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Anyone a member of Shelfari.com? 1 Neoma May 2012 Feb 2013 0 2586
Anyone else read The Inner Game of Tennis back in the 70s? 6 multigraincracker Apr 2021 May 2021 2 6659
Anyone have recommendations for a good biography of Putin? 13 Roland99 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 2 1813
Anyone know of a book about old, unrepentant Nazis? Someone mentioned one on DU not 1 raccoon Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 1758
Anyone read any books by Paul Craig Roberts? I believe he 2 arthritisR_US Jan 2015 Feb 2015 0 2178
Anyone read any of Richard J Evans trilogy about the Third Reich? 5 raccoon Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1228
Anyone read the Robert Caro series on LBJ? 14 dixiegrrrrl Apr 2012 Mar 2013 1 4003
Anyone read/reading People's History of the United States of America? 5 geardaddy Dec 2015 Dec 2017 1 2533
Anyone recommend a book on the Christian right? n/t 6 lordsummerisle Aug 2016 Sep 2017 0 1567
As the pandemic raged, Kathy Gilsinan found 'The Helpers' 0 Sherman A1 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 2196
Because Reading is a Basic Human Right 1 xrayvision2005 May 2012 Jun 2012 1 2139
Best Book(s) On the Roman Empire 4 erpowers Jan 2013 Feb 2013 0 2598
Bill Clinton's book review of Chernow's "Grant." 2 NNadir Dec 2017 Jul 2018 5 1704
Black Lives Matter Nonfiction Books 5 Neoma Jun 2020 Jul 2020 4 3133
Book by an Ohio Congressman published in 1903 2 AnotherDreamWeaver Sep 2017 Sep 2017 7 2890
book on Mandela 0 gabeana Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1358
Book recommendations for a child? 10 nyrnyr1994 Jan 2018 Jul 2018 2 1670
Book Review - about going beyond self-improvement 0 Voice for Peace Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 1550
Book Review: 'America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden' 0 douglas9 Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 2558
Book suggestions for a book club. 8 Neoma Aug 2012 Oct 2013 0 2758
Book: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life - Robert Dallek 1 bucolic_frolic Feb 2018 Feb 2018 2 1436
Book: World Without Mind 3 defacto7 Oct 2017 Nov 2017 0 1430
Books about the break-up of the US 3 matt819 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 1 1904
Books by Celebrities 4 Beringia Jun 2020 Jun 2020 1 1182
Booksellers write new chapter in Wyoming 0 bemildred Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 1353
Bookworms 1 ashling Jul 2012 Jul 2012 3 1803
Bruce Catton over Shelby Foote any day. & twicet on the weekends 2 KG Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 2210
Calvin Trillin By the Book: 1 elleng Jul 2017 Jul 2017 1 1581
Can anyone recommend a good biography of Thomas Edison? 2 bif Jun 2016 Jan 2017 0 1282
Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World (FULL) 0 BootinUp Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1143

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Chain of Title by David Dayen 0 octoberlib Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 984
Charles Ball describing being taken from his mother forever. 6 NNadir Feb 2018 Mar 2018 8 1886
Chris Hadfield: 'I'm blind, in space, holding a drill. Houston, I have a problem' 1 jakeXT Oct 2013 Oct 2013 1 2138
Chris Hedges: The Righteous Road to Ruin (review of Haidt's book) 2 marmar Jun 2012 Aug 2012 1 3367
Chronicles by Bob Dylan 1 pscot Mar 2014 Apr 2014 0 1488
City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York 2 Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 Feb 2017 0 1277
Claim the Bookmarks! 1 Neoma Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 1530
Collusion books 0 JonLP24 Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1107
Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by the Guardian journalist 1 JonLP24 Nov 2017 Nov 2017 8 1623
Columbine by Dave Cullen - anyone read it? 4 bixente Jan 2013 May 2013 0 1876
Craig Unger uncovers ties between trump, Michael Cohen and Russian mafia. 2 ellenrr Aug 2018 Apr 2019 8 3427
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4 kgrandia Jan 2016 Jul 2017 5 2577
David Cross - Making America Great Again 0 hibbing Jan 2019 Jan 2019 0 1325
David Paulides Missing 411 Series - Wow !! 9 donkeypoofed Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1946
Death Be Not Proud by, John Gunther. Just finished it. 18 Hiraeth Mar 2016 Apr 2016 2 2121
Death in a Promised Land: the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 2 struggle4progress Oct 2017 Oct 2017 3 2395
Did this publisher just withdraw James Patterson's 1991 non-fiction research book "The Day America Told The Truth"? 20 anobserver2 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 1443
Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough and Tumble Adventures of a Scotch Drinking, Skirt Chasing, 0 struggle4progress Aug 2012 Aug 2012 0 1428
Dixiegops: The Untold Story Of The Dixiecrat-Republican Coalition 0 Shell_Seas Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 2956
Do Yah Want a Book Group? (Poll) 1 Neoma Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 1088
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