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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.36 avg rating — 66,147 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 172,113 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
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4.09 avg rating — 68,867 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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4.46 avg rating — 21,934 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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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12,256 ratings
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
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4.24 avg rating — 4,723 ratings
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
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3.95 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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3.95 avg rating — 6,679 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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4.24 avg rating — 7,412 ratings
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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3.68 avg rating — 4,729 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.32 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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4.40 avg rating — 103,116 ratings
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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4.43 avg rating — 10,180 ratings
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
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4.03 avg rating — 804 ratings
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Europe: A Natural History
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4.09 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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3.77 avg rating — 26,641 ratings
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No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History
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3.84 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
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4.17 avg rating — 7,430 ratings
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
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3.41 avg rating — 7,749 ratings
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The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
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3.90 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
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4.04 avg rating — 5,625 ratings
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Parkland
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3.96 avg rating — 7,598 ratings
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
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4.34 avg rating — 10,187 ratings
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
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3.94 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
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The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
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4.24 avg rating — 2,236 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 — 62,264 ratings
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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
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3.69 avg rating — 6,246 ratings
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The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
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4.01 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
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4.13 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
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24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
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4.42 avg rating — 674 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 — 2,272 ratings
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
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4.36 avg rating — 1,749 ratings
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
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The Last Refuge: A True Story of War, Survival and Life Under Siege in Srebrenica
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4.33 avg rating — 377 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 — 8,762 ratings
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
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4.03 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
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4.20 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
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Westminster Abbey: A Church in History
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4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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3.77 avg rating — 6,567 ratings
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
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4.43 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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4.20 avg rating — 18,938 ratings
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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
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4.34 avg rating — 177 ratings
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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4.29 avg rating — 5,365 ratings
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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
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4.33 avg rating — 8,848 ratings
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Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
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3.71 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
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4.17 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
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Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
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4.03 avg rating — 4,146 ratings
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
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4.15 avg rating — 4,385 ratings
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
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3.71 avg rating — 746 ratings
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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
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4.14 avg rating — 5,614 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires
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4.08 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
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4.32 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
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3.87 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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4.72 avg rating — 45,142 ratings
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Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
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4.07 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
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3.68 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World
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4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
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4.13 avg rating — 5,506 ratings
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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
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4.36 avg rating — 2,890 ratings
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
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3.72 avg rating — 565 ratings
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Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I
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4.16 avg rating — 893 ratings
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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3.82 avg rating — 27,990 ratings
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The Gospel of War: A SEAL Team Six Operator's Battles in the Fight for Good over Evil
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
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4.42 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
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Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon
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4.50 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
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3.64 avg rating — 2,858 ratings
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
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4.30 avg rating — 895 ratings
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The Future Is Asian
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3.70 avg rating — 1,337 ratings
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
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4.35 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
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This Book Changed Everything: The Bible's Amazing Impact On Our World
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
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4.32 avg rating — 7,305 ratings
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
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3.81 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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4.50 avg rating — 8,473 ratings
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An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer
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3.95 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
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4.49 avg rating — 9,829 ratings
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Cherry Ingram
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3.89 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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Figuring
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4.35 avg rating — 4,074 ratings
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Arnhem: The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944
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4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
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4.53 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Edison
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3.54 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
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3.93 avg rating — 2,718 ratings
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Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu
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3.88 avg rating — 219 ratings
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
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3.58 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
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3.91 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle
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4.28 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
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3.81 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
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3.92 avg rating — 1,413 ratings
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
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3.76 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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Winds of Change: Britain in the Sixties
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4.05 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
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4.24 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
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4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Vikings: A History of the Northmen
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3.85 avg rating — 73 ratings
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
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3.94 avg rating — 3,920 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses: The Bloody Struggle for England's Throne
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3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
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3.82 avg rating — 14,141 ratings
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Soldiers, Scouts and Spies: A military history of the New Zealand Wars 1845–1864
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4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
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3.63 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love