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The Broken Heart of America

The Broken Heart of America

St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

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Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson
2020

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71 books

2023

Lisa
Lisa
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Under the Skin
Conviction: The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights
Olga Dies Dreaming
The Cartographers
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

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141 books

Owned

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jkd
Crime and Punishment
11/22/63
The Mad and the Bad
Ham on Rye
Catch-22
Elevation
Sharp Objects

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16 books

2020 Queue

Coops
Cooper
Rodham
How to Be an Antiracist
Your House Will Pay
The Glass Hotel
The Last Flight
The Guest List

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77 books

History Biography

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Susan Scribner
American Heiress
The Wright Brothers
The Devil in the White City
When Books Went to War
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Bitter Brew
Unbroken

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55 books

Whats Wrong With America

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Susan Scribner
What Were We Thinking
Rising Out of Hatred
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
14 Miles

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58 books

Ecolit Books

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John Yunker
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Lapham's Quarterly: Animals
Edge of Darkness
Penguins: Natural History and Conservation
Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction
The Green and the Red
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil