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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
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The Undefeated
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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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4.06 avg rating — 85,141 ratings
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A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two
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Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark
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A Short History of Byzantium
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
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| 108 |
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Hidden Politics of the Crucifixion (Hidden Treasure Series)
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| 108 |
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This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga
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Peter Cozzens (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 507 ratings
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
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Letters from Burma
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Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
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3.79 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
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3.81 avg rating — 350 ratings
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The Virago Book of Women Travellers
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Mary Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
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4.10 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
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4.46 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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4.20 avg rating — 2,996 ratings
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
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4.12 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
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4.16 avg rating — 293 ratings
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London: A Social History
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3.76 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 93,465 ratings
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| 124 |
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Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy
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3.77 avg rating — 237 ratings
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| 128 |
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The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century
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3.78 avg rating — 598 ratings
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| 128 |
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Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny
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4.06 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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3.91 avg rating — 43,963 ratings
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| 128 |
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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
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Peter Cozzens (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Fault Lines: A Memoir
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3.69 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West
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4.30 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Why the Allies Won
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4.19 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood-Atonement Killings
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3.82 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome
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3.73 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
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3.94 avg rating — 274,524 ratings
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Heart of the Trail: The Stories Of Eight Wagon Train Women
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3.59 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Fifties
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4.29 avg rating — 6,906 ratings
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy
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4.32 avg rating — 305 ratings
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| 139 |
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The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth
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Peter Cozzens (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 156 ratings
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| 142 |
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Columbus and the Age of Discovery (The New Book Of Knowledge)
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3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends
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3.64 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (The Everyday Life in America Series, Vol. 4)
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3.79 avg rating — 238 ratings
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
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4.30 avg rating — 4,602 ratings
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The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power
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3.75 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family
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3.91 avg rating — 101 ratings
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I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840
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4.04 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Donkeys
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3.67 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Gertrude Kasebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs
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Gertrude Käsebier (Photographer)
4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
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3.55 avg rating — 143 ratings
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| 152 |
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Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
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4.17 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863
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4.23 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
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4.13 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
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Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812
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3.75 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Conquering the Valley
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| 157 |
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
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Lillian Faderman (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 4,084 ratings
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| 157 |
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Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
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4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings
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| 159 |
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Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
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The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
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A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography
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The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence
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| 163 |
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The Loony-Bin Trip
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| 163 |
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Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives At Sea, 1820-1920
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Joan Druett (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle
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Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond
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Steven H. Newton (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir
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Lincoln before Washington: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ILLINOIS YEARS
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The Montreal Massacre
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Louise Malette (Editor)
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
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The Battle of Seven Pines, May 31-June 1, 1862
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Steven H. Newton (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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World War II: the best of American heritage
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Stephen W. Sears (Editor)
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons: Staff and Headquarters Operations in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
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Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898
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Crete Was My Waterloo
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Juniper Hall: An English refuge from the French Revolution
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Soldiers of the Old Army (Volume 15) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
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