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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 83,373 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 — 787,366 ratings
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
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3.98 avg rating — 4,471 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.31 avg rating — 13,693 ratings
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Clean
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3.71 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
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4.17 avg rating — 5,750 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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4.32 avg rating — 19,821 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 209,267 ratings
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1776
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4.11 avg rating — 258,925 ratings
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Passionate Minds
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4.10 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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Gomorrah
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3.80 avg rating — 24,049 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.07 avg rating — 88,512 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 438,392 ratings
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Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons & the Great Pyramids
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3.94 avg rating — 1,931 ratings
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Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 52,122 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 99,410 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 — 58,118 ratings
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
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4.23 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Mao's Last Dancer
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4.15 avg rating — 33,257 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.29 avg rating — 206,211 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 76,077 ratings
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Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization
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3.71 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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4.38 avg rating — 28,122 ratings
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John Adams
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4.09 avg rating — 386,801 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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4.19 avg rating — 3,905 ratings
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George Washington's Sacred Fire
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4.20 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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4.44 avg rating — 24,935 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 82,424 ratings
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Singled Out
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3.77 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
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4.05 avg rating — 1,506 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 24,020 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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4.23 avg rating — 30,844 ratings
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
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3.69 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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4.27 avg rating — 41,037 ratings
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
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4.31 avg rating — 21,640 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 124,201 ratings
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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
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3.99 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection
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3.37 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
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4.21 avg rating — 18,607 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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4.02 avg rating — 27,542 ratings
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
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4.21 avg rating — 2,279 ratings
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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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3.81 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
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4.37 avg rating — 16,519 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 64,771 ratings
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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4.36 avg rating — 10,223 ratings
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
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4.10 avg rating — 15,013 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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4.38 avg rating — 14,367 ratings
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Hitler's Traitor : Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich
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3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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3.98 avg rating — 14,640 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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3.96 avg rating — 48,547 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa ― A True Story Picture Book Set in Kenya, for Kids (Ages 4-8)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,349 ratings
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,716 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 43,578 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.96 avg rating — 12,081 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 47,390 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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4.12 avg rating — 933 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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4.37 avg rating — 12,068 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 — 116,689 ratings
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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
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3.95 avg rating — 8,533 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,996,160 ratings
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Disturbances of the Mind
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3.82 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
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3.91 avg rating — 8,599 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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4.05 avg rating — 155,233 ratings
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
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3.80 avg rating — 7,262 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
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4.29 avg rating — 7,617 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 106,404 ratings
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Behind Hitler's Lines: The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for Both Amer
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4.22 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
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4.29 avg rating — 6,765 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
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4.40 avg rating — 13,864 ratings
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A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II
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3.97 avg rating — 683 ratings
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
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3.90 avg rating — 5,803 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 31,631 ratings
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
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4.33 avg rating — 890 ratings
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
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4.13 avg rating — 5,025 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.81 avg rating — 35,440 ratings
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Horror In The East: Japan And The Atrocities Of World War II
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4.24 avg rating — 582 ratings
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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3.66 avg rating — 4,827 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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4.36 avg rating — 40,096 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 — 1,285 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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3.89 avg rating — 4,721 ratings
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 13,554 ratings
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
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4.05 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Gulag: A History
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4.29 avg rating — 14,501 ratings
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
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3.89 avg rating — 225 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 — 4,440 ratings
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
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4.11 avg rating — 6,935 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 19,137 ratings
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
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3.72 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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4.16 avg rating — 12,629 ratings
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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4.10 avg rating — 5,076 ratings
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Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
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4.05 avg rating — 3,971 ratings
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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4.30 avg rating — 63,858 ratings
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
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4.50 avg rating — 971 ratings
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We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
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3.97 avg rating — 2,774 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 233,055 ratings
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
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4.04 avg rating — 498 ratings
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The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda
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4.21 avg rating — 2,540 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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4.14 avg rating — 15,524 ratings
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The Lost King of France
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4.21 avg rating — 2,527 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.79 avg rating — 59,183 ratings
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