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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
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Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
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A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
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Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines
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The Ashtray
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Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran
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4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
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3.88 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Persian Empire: Illustrated Edition: Conquests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Wars Against Ancient Greece, The Great Emperors: Cyrus the Great, Darius I and Xerxes I
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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Great Muslims of the West: Makers of Western Islam
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35 Miles from Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980
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3.92 avg rating — 678 ratings
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The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
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4.08 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
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Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
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4.20 avg rating — 330 ratings
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No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
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4.37 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
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3.92 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
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4.22 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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Seven Decades of Independent India -Ideas and Reflections
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3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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4.53 avg rating — 22,357 ratings
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The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality
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3.88 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Newsman: Tracking India in the Modi Era
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3.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge: Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire
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3.20 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
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3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
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4.03 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way
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3.87 avg rating — 1,207 ratings
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The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist
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3.88 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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4.37 avg rating — 4,542 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,347 ratings
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
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4.03 avg rating — 3,009 ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
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4.11 avg rating — 2,757 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 40,395 ratings
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
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4.11 avg rating — 525 ratings
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The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream
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3.76 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
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4.20 avg rating — 4,081 ratings
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
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3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
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3.79 avg rating — 824 ratings
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
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3.94 avg rating — 3,687 ratings
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Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
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3.60 avg rating — 485 ratings
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Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making (a Camera Obscura book)
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
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3.58 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era (The North's Civil War)
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Bite-Sized History of France
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4.19 avg rating — 2,193 ratings
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Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
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3.78 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
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3.64 avg rating — 2,904 ratings
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Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
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4.05 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
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Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk – An Intimate Portrait of Music, Class, and Race in Winchester, Virginia
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Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: A Scandalous History of Birds, Hats and Votes
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3.90 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
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Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
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4.28 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
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4.18 avg rating — 1,174 ratings
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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
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3.72 avg rating — 698 ratings
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
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4.16 avg rating — 800 ratings
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Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion
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3.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
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What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women
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3.58 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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4.05 avg rating — 32,776 ratings
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James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era
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Happiness in America: A Cultural History
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Gorey's Worlds
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
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4.20 avg rating — 2,499 ratings
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Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers
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William Howard Taft (The American Presidents #27)
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
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3.23 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport
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3.16 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era: Women's Life Stories in Contemporary China
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With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice
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3.07 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed
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3.44 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
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3.92 avg rating — 467 ratings
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A History of America in 100 Maps
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4.09 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
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4.14 avg rating — 2,345 ratings
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Hitler's British Isles
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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution
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3.56 avg rating — 224 ratings
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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy
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3.68 avg rating — 3,011 ratings
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Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
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4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World
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3.50 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
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Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
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4.15 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Google It: A History of Google
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4.01 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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Building Anglo-Saxon England
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Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America
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Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
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The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
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Victoria: The Widow and Her Son
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The Fifth Risk
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The True Death of Billy the Kid
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Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919
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