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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 803,366 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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4.09 avg rating — 66,943 ratings
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
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3.95 avg rating — 11,178 ratings
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Nelson Mandela
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4.27 avg rating — 3,685 ratings
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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
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4.19 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
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Full Disclosure
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3.58 avg rating — 3,132 ratings
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My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
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4.27 avg rating — 3,498 ratings
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The Wife's Tale: A Personal History
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3.55 avg rating — 865 ratings
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Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
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4.30 avg rating — 737 ratings
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James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons
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4.36 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Permanent Record
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4.30 avg rating — 57,823 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 82,587 ratings
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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
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3.88 avg rating — 4,628 ratings
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
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4.03 avg rating — 6,138 ratings
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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3.89 avg rating — 24,386 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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3.90 avg rating — 85,024 ratings
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John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu
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4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
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3.75 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
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3.95 avg rating — 1,825 ratings
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My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel
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3.91 avg rating — 33,582 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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3.91 avg rating — 10,701 ratings
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)
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3.87 avg rating — 4,548 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,822 ratings
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Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
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3.85 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
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Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary
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4.22 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ
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4.07 avg rating — 2,541 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,726 ratings
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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4.41 avg rating — 19,741 ratings
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Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
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3.88 avg rating — 1,458 ratings
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Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh
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3.81 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor
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4.36 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
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4.27 avg rating — 11,694 ratings
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
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3.93 avg rating — 2,711 ratings
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
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3.47 avg rating — 15,028 ratings
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
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4.23 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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4.13 avg rating — 22,861 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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4.17 avg rating — 215,787 ratings
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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4.12 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
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4.33 avg rating — 4,513 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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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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4.17 avg rating — 12,645 ratings
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
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4.61 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
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4.54 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
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4.08 avg rating — 4,401 ratings
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The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
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3.55 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.34 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
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Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe
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4.59 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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My Own Words
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4.03 avg rating — 27,081 ratings
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Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
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4.55 avg rating — 4,509 ratings
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The Mountbattens
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3.67 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
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3.97 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other
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4.13 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky
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4.29 avg rating — 628 ratings
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My Father, the Pornographer
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3.62 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
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3.70 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 4,700 ratings
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
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4.27 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Radical: My Journey Out Of Islamist Extremism
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4.03 avg rating — 3,103 ratings
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A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
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4.12 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
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3.75 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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4.24 avg rating — 2,808 ratings
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
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4.53 avg rating — 6,701 ratings
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Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
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3.72 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls (Stories of the Rich & Famous, Famous Women)
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3.45 avg rating — 3,193 ratings
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Grant
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4.50 avg rating — 43,846 ratings
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Fauci: The Bernie Madoff of Science and the HIV Ponzi Scheme that Concealed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
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4.09 avg rating — 766 ratings
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George Marshall: A Biography
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3.63 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Major Thomas: The bush lawyer who defended Breaker Morant and took on the British Empire
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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4.19 avg rating — 7,034 ratings
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The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans
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3.79 avg rating — 575 ratings
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From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin
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4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
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3.83 avg rating — 2,837 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 54,676 ratings
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General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War
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4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings
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A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
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3.69 avg rating — 701 ratings
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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table (Food Heroes, 1)
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4.18 avg rating — 601 ratings
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In the Wings: My Life with Roger McGuinn and The Byrds
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4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel
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3.65 avg rating — 914 ratings
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The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
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3.91 avg rating — 745 ratings
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
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4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
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4.02 avg rating — 732 ratings
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
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4.20 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Raising the Flag: America's First Envoys in Faraway Lands
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
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3.99 avg rating — 11,909 ratings
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Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
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4.37 avg rating — 3,293 ratings
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American Mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
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4.20 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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4.20 avg rating — 29,406 ratings
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JFK'S WAR
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3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 60,943 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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4.12 avg rating — 444,803 ratings
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Always Right
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3.60 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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4.22 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
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4.20 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
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4.42 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
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3.71 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
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3.53 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
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3.68 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
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