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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
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3.78 avg rating — 2,232 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 200,934 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 10,884 ratings
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We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
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Pompeii: The Living City
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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3.51 avg rating — 25,203 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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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
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4.08 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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4.20 avg rating — 22,704 ratings
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric – A Dazzling Biography of the Ambitious and Flamboyant Monarch Who Set the World on Fire
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3.45 avg rating — 510 ratings
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The Pied Piper Of South Shore: Toys and Tragedy in Chicago
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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4.17 avg rating — 8,793 ratings
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
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4.43 avg rating — 1,930 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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4.07 avg rating — 32,743 ratings
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The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
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3.56 avg rating — 519 ratings
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
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3.85 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.97 avg rating — 11,829 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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4.36 avg rating — 37,874 ratings
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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
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4.10 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 78,376 ratings
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
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3.90 avg rating — 5,779 ratings
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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3.86 avg rating — 3,254 ratings
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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4.13 avg rating — 10,202 ratings
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Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
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4.11 avg rating — 922 ratings
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
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4.07 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
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3.95 avg rating — 2,273 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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3.87 avg rating — 42,128 ratings
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Disturbances of the Mind
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3.81 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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4.19 avg rating — 2,729 ratings
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
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4.03 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
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4.31 avg rating — 571 ratings
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The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story
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3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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All Those Mornings . . . At the Post: The 20th Century in Sports from Famed Washington Post: Columnist Shirley Povich
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers
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3.74 avg rating — 292 ratings
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
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4.04 avg rating — 4,338 ratings
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
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4.26 avg rating — 3,414 ratings
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Sojourner Truth's America
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4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Cousins Divided: George V And Nicholas II
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3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Why I Am A Catholic: A Forceful Statement of Faith and Loyal Criticism―Two Thousand Years of Church History, Reform, and Papal Transformation
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3.61 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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4.10 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
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The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
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4.20 avg rating — 2,613 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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4.43 avg rating — 24,225 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
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4.22 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
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4.16 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Longest Season
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Assassination Vacation
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The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli
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Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation
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4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings
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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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4.20 avg rating — 6,822 ratings
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
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4.05 avg rating — 6,237 ratings
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Christmas Remembered
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4.04 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 100,599 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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4.23 avg rating — 27,807 ratings
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Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 194,732 ratings
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The Fate of the Romanovs
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4.08 avg rating — 902 ratings
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The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
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3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.30 avg rating — 12,737 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 10,040 ratings
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Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
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3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
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3.99 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Great Masters: Brahms- His Life and Music
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4.53 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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3.97 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, And Other Florida Wildlife
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3.86 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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4.43 avg rating — 10,163 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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4.03 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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Geschichte einer Stradivari
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The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914
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Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
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3.87 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
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4.04 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
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4.30 avg rating — 1,388 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
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3.79 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
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Gay and Lesbian Atlanta
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Unbowed
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Titanic: A Night Remembered
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Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, 1914-1949
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John Adams
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Sapelo Island
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
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3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Lost Voices From the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History
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3.81 avg rating — 377 ratings
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
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3.98 avg rating — 7,097 ratings
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Darien and McIntosh County
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Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
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Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr
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4.11 avg rating — 235 ratings
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
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3.78 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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Georgia: A State History
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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4.07 avg rating — 203,468 ratings
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Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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Tallahassee
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Rebel Girls: Their Fight For the Vote
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
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The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
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3.81 avg rating — 673 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
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3.99 avg rating — 14,086 ratings
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The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back
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Infidel
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