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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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The Guns of August
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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The Last Days of the Incas
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
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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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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The Wars of the Roses
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania
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Women in Ancient Societies
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Hidden Figures
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures)
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Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The Weaker Vessel
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Daily Life in Medieval Times
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
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The Return of Martin Guerre
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
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Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s
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Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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Black Women in White America: A Documentary History
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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D-Day Through French Eyes: Normandy 1944
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
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Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong
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Sacred Signs: Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt
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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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