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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
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Andrew X. Pham (Goodreads Author)
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 70,942 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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The Princes in the Tower
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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Stanwyck
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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
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Truman
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Texas Connection: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
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December 6th: From the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Basque History of the World
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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South Carolina: A History
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
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Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
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4.24 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Bitter Waters: Life And Work In Stalin's Russia
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3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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3.83 avg rating — 12,769 ratings
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Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800
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Judith M. Bennett (Editor)
3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
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3.87 avg rating — 3,085 ratings
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The Strange Death of Vincent Foster
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3.65 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,256 ratings
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The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman
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White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States
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4.15 avg rating — 79 ratings
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A Few Small Candles
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Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution 1640-1660
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4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain
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4.54 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.72 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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Suicide or Murder? The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis
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3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
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4.15 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Race Matters
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4.15 avg rating — 11,915 ratings
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
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3.93 avg rating — 7,716 ratings
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
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Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany
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3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 929 ratings
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At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
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3.92 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Nuremberg: The Last Battle
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The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers
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4.13 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, Volume 1
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Spectator in Hell
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4.22 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.34 avg rating — 21,630 ratings
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
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3.76 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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Surviving the Americans: The Continued Struggle of the Jews After Liberation
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3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,839 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 63,581 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
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Margot Mifflin (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
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3.91 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Personal History: A Memoir
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The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
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3.91 avg rating — 22,059 ratings
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Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
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A History of Pagan Europe
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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
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Escape from Archangel: An American Merchant Seaman at War
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A Concise History of the Crusades
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Thomas F. Madden (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social, and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. Immigration Back to Traditional Levels
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The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography
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Virginia Woolf
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Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945
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The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
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Abraham Hanibal: Prince of Logone, Pushkin's African Ancestor
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Hugh Glass
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
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The Undefeated
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 84,752 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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A Short History of Byzantium
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
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Hidden Politics of the Crucifixion (Hidden Treasure Series)
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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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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
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The Virago Book of Women Travellers
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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London: A Social History
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Long Walk to Freedom
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Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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