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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 803,483 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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3.96 avg rating — 30,465 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
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4.09 avg rating — 66,969 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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3.81 avg rating — 4,069 ratings
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Singled Out
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3.77 avg rating — 904 ratings
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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
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3.86 avg rating — 21,036 ratings
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Surf Beat: Rock 'n' Roll's Forgotten Revolution
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3.88 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
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4.08 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
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3.88 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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3.73 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
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3.99 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
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4.12 avg rating — 5,440 ratings
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Granuaile: Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
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3.49 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.80 avg rating — 18,932 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,196 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 116,667 ratings
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
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3.64 avg rating — 8,964 ratings
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The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
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4.09 avg rating — 930 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,249 ratings
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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4.20 avg rating — 2,445 ratings
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Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans
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4.17 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
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4.25 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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3.97 avg rating — 9,414 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 — 2,230 ratings
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I Love it When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech
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3.46 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
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3.82 avg rating — 6,133 ratings
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King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
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3.67 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Island on Fire
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3.86 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Nobody Knows: The Forgotten Story of One of the Most Influential Figures in American Music
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4.25 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
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4.32 avg rating — 514 ratings
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
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3.57 avg rating — 2,621 ratings
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We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 110,340 ratings
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
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4.35 avg rating — 2,883 ratings
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Major Andre's Journal
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3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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3.79 avg rating — 117 ratings
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We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
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4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
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3.81 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
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4.04 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 3,220 ratings
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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
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4.07 avg rating — 6,196 ratings
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Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created
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3.80 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History
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4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
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3.87 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
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3.80 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer: Rediscovered Recipes for Classic Brews Dating from 1800 to 1965
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3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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D DAY Through German Eyes: Book One and Book Two
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4.41 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest
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3.79 avg rating — 3,362 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
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4.04 avg rating — 23,267 ratings
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At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
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3.73 avg rating — 829 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 45,840 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
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4.41 avg rating — 12,652 ratings
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Underground
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4.38 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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3.83 avg rating — 10,519 ratings
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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
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4.06 avg rating — 1,871 ratings
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A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
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4.12 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
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3.62 avg rating — 408 ratings
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The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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3.83 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
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4.35 avg rating — 401 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,536 ratings
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Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business
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3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
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3.92 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
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4.08 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,361 ratings
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Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes
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3.93 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling
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2.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
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4.20 avg rating — 9,132 ratings
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Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
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4.06 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
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The Quality Companion: Celebrating the Forgotten Publisher of Plastic Man
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4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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3.98 avg rating — 966 ratings
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The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told Through Its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There
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4.38 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Land of Eagles: Riding through Europe's Forgotten Country
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3.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
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3.86 avg rating — 754 ratings
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
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3.72 avg rating — 495 ratings
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In the Fields and the Trenches: The Famous and the Forgotten on the Battlefields of World War I
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3.70 avg rating — 40 ratings
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JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
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4.17 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
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3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks
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4.15 avg rating — 880 ratings
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Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Forgotten Tudor Women: Anne Seymour, Jane Dudley & Elisabeth Parr
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3.89 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit
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3.81 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
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3.80 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
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4.23 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army
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4.25 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Vintage True Crime Stories Vol I: An Illustrated Anthology of Forgotten Cases of Murder & Mayhem
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3.74 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
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4.15 avg rating — 646 ratings
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The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America
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3.67 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
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3.98 avg rating — 328 ratings
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
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4.48 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills (
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3.77 avg rating — 5,121 ratings
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Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
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3.78 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
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4.53 avg rating — 5,642 ratings
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White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America
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3.98 avg rating — 842 ratings
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A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History
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3.62 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland: The True Story of the Royal House of Stewart and the Hidden Lineage of the Kings and Queens of Scots
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3.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty and America's Forgotten Military Disaster
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3.76 avg rating — 124 ratings
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