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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy – Startling and Unexpected Illustrated Moments Presented by The History Channel
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Unsolved Mysteries of American History: An Eye-Opening Journey Through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events
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More Unsolved Mysteries of American History
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A Short History of Nuclear Folly: Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-ups
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 295,049 ratings
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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
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The Way to Eternity: Egyptian Myth (Myth & Mankind, Vol. 2)
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4.05 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
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3.71 avg rating — 3,268 ratings
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The Ravens: The Men Who Flew In America's Secret War In Laos
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4.25 avg rating — 769 ratings
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The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II
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3.29 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
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4.03 avg rating — 23,441 ratings
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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3.99 avg rating — 13,945 ratings
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
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3.75 avg rating — 807 ratings
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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
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3.86 avg rating — 21,050 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
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3.80 avg rating — 16,991 ratings
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Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
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3.98 avg rating — 15,419 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 157,478 ratings
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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3.93 avg rating — 65,818 ratings
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Soldier Dogs
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3.96 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
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3.83 avg rating — 703 ratings
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
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4.16 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
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3.99 avg rating — 90,811 ratings
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A Beautiful Mind
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4.13 avg rating — 135,051 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 219,835 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 161,472 ratings
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
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4.10 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
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3.97 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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3.65 avg rating — 20,718 ratings
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Black Soldiers in Blue
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Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
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Child Star: An Autobiography
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Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
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4.19 avg rating — 78,905 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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4.21 avg rating — 22,700 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 195,659 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,468 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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3.25 avg rating — 24,359 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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4.23 avg rating — 7,495 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 240,054 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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Shark Arm
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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Lenin's Embalmers
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
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3.79 avg rating — 286 ratings
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London's Dead: A Guided Tour of the capital's dead
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse
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The Dead Do Talk
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American Hippopotamus
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
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