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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
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4.17 avg rating — 5,391 ratings
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Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv
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3.60 avg rating — 350 ratings
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
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4.10 avg rating — 5,074 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 4,943 ratings
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Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation]
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3.84 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp
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3.95 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Chocolate: Sweet Science Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat
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3.51 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Lincoln's Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America's First Private Eye
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3.81 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
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4.10 avg rating — 598 ratings
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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
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4.40 avg rating — 20,319 ratings
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Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army
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4.08 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
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Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator
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3.92 avg rating — 3,438 ratings
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Our Auntie Rosa: Remembering the Life and Lessons of the Real Rosa Parks
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4.05 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Octopus Scientists: Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk
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4.04 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
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4.27 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
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3.66 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
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3.70 avg rating — 3,182 ratings
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In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers
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3.63 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
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4.09 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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Noah Webster: Man of Many Words
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3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings
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FDR and the American Crisis
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3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings
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When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
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3.80 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
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3.98 avg rating — 421 ratings
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