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A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Ender's Saga by Orson Scott Card

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Civil War Trilogy by Michael Shaara

The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

A History of Israel by Howard M. Sachar

Church History in Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley

The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk

A History of Britain by Simon Schama

The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

by J.K. Rowling

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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)

by Rick Atkinson

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by Gary McAvoy (Goodreads Author)

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Ben’s Notes & Highlights

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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims

Unlike most human beings, his greatest fear wasn’t death or failure or loss. It was obscurity.

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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

World Without End by Ken Follett

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