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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History
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Darwin and the Beagle
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Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
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Ideas That Changed the World
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World
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Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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Einstein Lived Here
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,558 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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Mexico
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Rasputin the Saint Who Sinned
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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Night
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Hannibal (The Carthage Trilogy, #1)
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Scipio Africanus (The Carthage Trilogy, #2)
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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The Devil in the White City
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 380,632 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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4.17 avg rating — 11,422 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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John Adams
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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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 — 56,039 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 199,009 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 123,013 ratings
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