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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
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The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France
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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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Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
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The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America's Midnight War Against Russia
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
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Killer Women: Chilling, Dark and Gripping True Crime Stories of Women Who Kill
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3.26 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany’s Resistance Against the Nazis
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4.06 avg rating — 864 ratings
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American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
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3.76 avg rating — 6,137 ratings
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott
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3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
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This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
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A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
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4.10 avg rating — 12,677 ratings
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Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
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3.49 avg rating — 1,174 ratings
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The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories
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3.91 avg rating — 989 ratings
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They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans
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4.24 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Franco and the Condor Legion: The Spanish Civil War in the Air
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3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Neptune’s Admiral: The Life of Sir Bertram Ramsay, Commander of Dunkirk and D-Day
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Post Office Women at War, 1939–45: Gender, Conflict and Public Service Employment
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Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad
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3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Spooky Trails and Tall Tales California: Hiking the Golden State's Legends, Hauntings, and History
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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4.43 avg rating — 4,247 ratings
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RAAF Black Cats: The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine
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4.02 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
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4.23 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
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4.46 avg rating — 54,308 ratings
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They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama's Improbable Campaign
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4.41 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy
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3.89 avg rating — 3,024 ratings
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
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Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
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4.45 avg rating — 2,127 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
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4.31 avg rating — 6,156 ratings
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Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14
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4.16 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo
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The Art of War
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Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944
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Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life
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3.71 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
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3.93 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
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3.89 avg rating — 507 ratings
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The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History
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4.14 avg rating — 12,009 ratings
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Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
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4.11 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
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Still Winning: Why America Went All In on Donald Trump-And Why We Must Do It Again
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4.28 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
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4.18 avg rating — 7,014 ratings
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52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School
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3.94 avg rating — 3,671 ratings
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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4.08 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present
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3.25 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe
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4.15 avg rating — 140 ratings
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They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty
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3.91 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
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4.63 avg rating — 4,398 ratings
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Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain
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3.23 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Ottoman Navy: From the Height of Empire to Dissolution, 1572-1923
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4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
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4.40 avg rating — 564 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 — 771 ratings
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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4.40 avg rating — 5,827 ratings
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New Order Diplomacy: The Axis in International Affairs, 1939-45
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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
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3.88 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
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3.80 avg rating — 201 ratings
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On Wilder Seas: The Woman on the Golden Hind
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3.91 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts
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4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution
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3.73 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution
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4.06 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics
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3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
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3.92 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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Real Irish New York: A Rogue's Gallery of Fenians, Tough Women, Holy Men, Blasphemers, Jesters, and a Gang of Other Colorful Characters
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
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3.79 avg rating — 3,373 ratings
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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
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3.70 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
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4.32 avg rating — 7,537 ratings
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The Lesson of this Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State
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3.55 avg rating — 241 ratings
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American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future
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How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
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3.56 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Fire on the Water
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George II: Not Just a British Monarch
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3.40 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
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3.02 avg rating — 185 ratings
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A Curious History of Sex
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4.16 avg rating — 8,245 ratings
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The Metamorphosis Of War: The Human Experience Of The English Civil Wars, 1642-1651 (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721)
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The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
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3.77 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
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The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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3.74 avg rating — 14,627 ratings
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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Sir Francis Bryan: Henry VIII's Most Notorious Ambassador
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Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
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The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life
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3.78 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
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4.03 avg rating — 1,720 ratings
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The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68
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3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings
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A Short History of the Korean War
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
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The Original Broadway Cast Recording's Hamilton (33 1/3)
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Six Queens: The Wives of Henry VIII
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A Black Women's History of the United States
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Stateway's Garden: Stories
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Sinister Chicago: Windy City Secrets, Urban Legends & Sordid Characters
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3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945
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4.56 avg rating — 747 ratings
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