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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.36 avg rating — 71,815 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 197,970 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
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4.08 avg rating — 73,813 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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4.45 avg rating — 26,930 ratings
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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
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4.01 avg rating — 12,790 ratings
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
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4.24 avg rating — 4,840 ratings
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
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3.96 avg rating — 2,709 ratings
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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3.95 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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4.23 avg rating — 8,073 ratings
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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3.68 avg rating — 4,929 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.32 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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4.39 avg rating — 104,827 ratings
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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4.43 avg rating — 11,696 ratings
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
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4.03 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Europe: A Natural History
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4.08 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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3.77 avg rating — 27,470 ratings
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No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History
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3.84 avg rating — 2,417 ratings
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
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4.17 avg rating — 7,475 ratings
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
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3.42 avg rating — 8,282 ratings
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The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
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3.91 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
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24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
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3.79 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
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4.04 avg rating — 5,830 ratings
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Parkland
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3.96 avg rating — 7,767 ratings
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
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4.33 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
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3.94 avg rating — 3,510 ratings
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
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4.04 avg rating — 1,985 ratings
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The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
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4.24 avg rating — 2,247 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 66,074 ratings
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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
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3.69 avg rating — 6,405 ratings
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The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
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4.02 avg rating — 2,716 ratings
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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
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4.13 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
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4.42 avg rating — 694 ratings
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The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 2,367 ratings
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
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4.36 avg rating — 1,831 ratings
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,665 ratings
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The Last Refuge: A True Story of War, Survival and Life Under Siege in Srebrenica
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4.32 avg rating — 411 ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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4.72 avg rating — 50,564 ratings
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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4.22 avg rating — 9,010 ratings
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The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
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4.21 avg rating — 2,607 ratings
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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3.77 avg rating — 6,776 ratings
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
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4.43 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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4.20 avg rating — 20,160 ratings
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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
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4.38 avg rating — 190 ratings
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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4.29 avg rating — 5,686 ratings
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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
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4.33 avg rating — 9,201 ratings
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Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
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3.72 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
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4.03 avg rating — 4,318 ratings
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
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4.15 avg rating — 4,536 ratings
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
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3.72 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
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4.14 avg rating — 5,801 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires
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4.07 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
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4.32 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
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3.85 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
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4.06 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
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3.69 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
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4.13 avg rating — 5,990 ratings
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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
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4.36 avg rating — 2,994 ratings
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
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3.71 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Westminster Abbey: A Church in History
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4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I
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4.16 avg rating — 922 ratings
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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3.83 avg rating — 29,310 ratings
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The Gospel of War: A SEAL Team Six Operator's Battles in the Fight for Good over Evil
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
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3.93 avg rating — 2,210 ratings
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
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4.43 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon
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4.50 avg rating — 404 ratings
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The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
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3.64 avg rating — 2,915 ratings
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
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4.30 avg rating — 930 ratings
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The Future Is Asian
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3.68 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
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4.35 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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This Book Changed Everything: The Bible's Amazing Impact On Our World
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
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4.31 avg rating — 8,134 ratings
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
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3.80 avg rating — 2,776 ratings
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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4.50 avg rating — 8,801 ratings
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An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer
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3.95 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
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4.49 avg rating — 10,283 ratings
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Cherry Ingram
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3.89 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
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Figuring
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4.35 avg rating — 4,206 ratings
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Arnhem: The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944
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4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
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4.53 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Edison
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3.55 avg rating — 2,994 ratings
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
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3.94 avg rating — 2,765 ratings
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
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3.57 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
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3.91 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle
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4.29 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
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3.81 avg rating — 2,662 ratings
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
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3.93 avg rating — 1,468 ratings
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
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3.77 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
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Winds of Change: Britain in the Sixties
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4.07 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
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3.57 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
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4.25 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Uncrowned Queen: The Treacherous Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Rebel
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4.17 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Death Ships - the story of life & death on six big emigrant ships
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4.89 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
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4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind
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3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Vikings: A History of the Northmen
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3.82 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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4.61 avg rating — 26,032 ratings
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A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
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4.18 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses: The Bloody Struggle for England's Throne
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3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love