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City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Incognito
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Constantine the Emperor
Hallucinations
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Jumbo: This being the true story of the world's greatest elephant
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You Are What You Speak

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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A People's History of the United States

1776
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
Think Like A Freak
Salt: A World History
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Edge of the World
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
European History for Dummies
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
It's About Time: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History
Atoms Under the Floorboards
British history for dummies
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Blood Feud

Joan of Arc: A History
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The Story of Western Science

Dr. Mutter's Marvels
A Concise History of Modern Europe
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
Coined
The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
What are the Seven Wonders of the World?
Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Packing for Mars
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Queen Isabella

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
The Planets
George Washington's Secret Six The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity
A is for Arsenic
A Little History of the United States
The Making of Home
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Making a Point
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
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The Borgias

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Women of the Renaissance
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
Yes, My Accent Is Real - and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
The Witches: Salem, 1692
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The Wise King

Suspicious Minds
The axe and the oath
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Dynasty
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
It Ended Badly
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
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Of Beards and Men

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
The Medici
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
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Henry IV

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Ambition and Desire

Hair: A Human History
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation
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1920

Paper
The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
The Age of Genius
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
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