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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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3.85 avg rating — 79,392 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943
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4.33 avg rating — 41,647 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
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Drinking: A Love Story
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Red Scarf Girl
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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If You Really Loved Me
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Red Azalea: A Memoir
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Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
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The Man Who Ate Everything
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Hostage
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
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4.29 avg rating — 8,796 ratings
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Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
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3.95 avg rating — 5,106 ratings
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A History of Warfare
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3.98 avg rating — 4,630 ratings
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My Life in Dog Years
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4.16 avg rating — 4,183 ratings
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
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Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
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After Long Silence: A Memoir
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
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All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
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Little Lost Angel
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No Cake, No Jam: Hardship and happiness in wartime London
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4.25 avg rating — 992 ratings
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The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
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4.16 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon
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3.91 avg rating — 757 ratings
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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
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3.84 avg rating — 754 ratings
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Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
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4.18 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Nothing to Do But Stay
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3.99 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
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4.32 avg rating — 571 ratings
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What Cops Know: Today's Police Tell the Inside Story of Their Work on America's Streets
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3.97 avg rating — 543 ratings
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This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga
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4.22 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Charmer: The True Story of a Ladies' Man and His Victims
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Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
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Daddy's Girl: Comics
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3.79 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
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With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy
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Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
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4.07 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
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Last Places: A Journey in the North – A Classic Adventure Along Ancient Viking Routes from Norway to Newfoundland
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Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And Madmen
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If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor
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A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy
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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
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The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom
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Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey
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Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West
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A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir
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A House in Flanders
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
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Rock and the Pop Narcotic: Testament for the Electric Church
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Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights
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The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth
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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends
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The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power
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The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth
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Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
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But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
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3.55 avg rating — 146 ratings
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For Packrats Only: How to Clean Up, Clear Out, and Dejunk Your Life Forever
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Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863
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Ghosts of the Air
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Gifted Children: Myths And Realities
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Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812
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Homesteading
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Conquering the Valley
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Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
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Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
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A Passion for Flowers
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An Evening Among Headhunters: & Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled
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Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections: A History of Insult, A Solace to Writers
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The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
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The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence
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Mary Carbery's West Cork Journals
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The Lock Keeper's Daughter
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The Battle of Seven Pines, May 31-June 1, 1862
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Accidental Genius
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Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered
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World War II: the best of American heritage
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LZ Cowboy: A Cowboy's Journal 1979-1981
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Crete Was My Waterloo
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Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898
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Juniper Hall: An English refuge from the French Revolution
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Wit & Wisdom of Politics, 3rd Ed.
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Born Yesterday: Memories of a Scottish Childhood (Transaction Large Print Books)
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Winter Warmers: Memories of Coping With Winters Past: [a book of stories and illustrations]
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