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Narrative History Books

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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