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Cover 8

The Diary of James K. Polk
ByJames Knox Polk

1 Reader

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Unchosen Presidents: The Vice President and Other Frustrations of Presidential Succession
ByAllan Sindler

1 Reader

Cover 4

James Madison: Writings
ByJames Madison

1 Reader

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The Passions of Andrew Jackson
ByAndrew Burstein

1 Reader

Cover 4

Mad Madame Lalaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed
ByLorelei Shannon, Victoria Cosner Love

2 Readers • 4

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Crimes of the Century
ByKatherine Ramsland

1 Reader • 3

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Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Slayings Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
ByMichael Knox Beran

1 Reader

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman
ByClaire Tomalin

2012 • 5 Readers • 368 pages • 4

The Whiskey Rebels

The Whiskey Rebels
ByDavid Liss

2008 • 11 Readers • 562 pages • 3.3

Ghostland

Ghostland
ByColin Dickey

2016 • 50 Readers • 320 pages • 4

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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
ByKate Summerscale

2016 • 5 Readers • 3.3

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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
ByKate Summerscale

1997 • 3 Readers

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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
ByJohn Putnam Demos

2 Readers • 5

Beethoven's Hair

Beethoven's Hair
ByRussell Martin

2000 • 3 Readers • 288 pages

Richard III and the Murder in the Tower

Richard III and the Murder in the Tower
ByPeter A. Hancock

2009 • 2 Readers • 4

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Signing Their Rights Away
ByJoseph D'Agnese, Denise Kiernan

1 Reader

Cover 1

The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty
ByDesmond Seward

1 Reader

Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
ByBart D. Ehrman

2016 • 5 Readers • 4

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Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
ByKeith McCloskey

2 Readers • 5

Manson in His Own Words

Manson in His Own Words
ByCharles Manson

2007 • 1 Reader • 313 pages • 4

How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

#2 of 2 in How to Be

How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
ByRuth Goodman

2015 • 4 Readers • 336 pages

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
ByBarack Obama

1995 • 129 Readers • 466 pages • 4

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The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance
ByBarack Obama

1 Reader

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
ByBarack Obama

2006 • 85 Readers • 386 pages • 4

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The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings
ByBarack Obama

1 Reader

Cover 3

The Life and Times of Jesus: From His Earthly Beginnings to the Sermon on the Mount
ByWyatt North, Michael J. Ruszala

1 Reader • 3

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages
ByFrances Gies,Joseph Gies

2019 • 5 Readers • 400 pages

How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
ByN.T. Wright

2012 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 4.5

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind
BySylvia Nasar

1998 • 74 Readers • 461 pages • 3.6

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Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
ByStacy Schiff

2 Readers

Cover 3

Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters
ByOscar Wilde

1 Reader

Cover 2

The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages: Queens, Saints, and Viking Slayers, From Empress Theodora to Elizabeth of Tudor
ByMichael Rank, Melissa Rank

1 Reader

Katherine

Katherine
ByAnya Seton

1954 • 42 Readers • 500 pages • 3.9

The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk
ByW.E.B. Du Bois

1903 • 90 Readers • 272 pages • 4.1

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Daughter Of Earth And Water: A Biography Of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ByNoel B. Gerson

1 Reader

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Voodoo, Slaves and White Man's Graves: West Africa and the End of Days
ByTom Coote

1 Reader

Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers

Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers
ByDominic Selwood

2015 • 2 Readers • 300 pages • 4

Demonology and Devil-lore

Demonology and Devil-lore
ByMoncure Daniel Conway

1990 • 2 Readers

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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
ByPatricia Cornwell

1 Reader • 5

The Confessions of Young Nero

#1 of 2 in Nero

The Confessions of Young Nero
ByMargaret George

2017 • 10 Readers • 528 pages • 4

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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages
BySabine Baring-Gould

3 Readers

Medieval Folklore : A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs

Medieval Folklore : A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
ByCarl Lindahl(Editor),John McNamara(Editor)

2000 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

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Folk Tales of Britain: Legends
ByHannah Firmin, Katharine M. Briggs, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Clare Melinsky, Peter Firmin

1 Reader

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Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
ByJoan Druett

1 Reader

Cover 1

The Determined Heart
ByAntoinette May

2015 • 4 Readers • 407 pages • 3.5

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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
ByJill Jonnes

2 Readers

Charity and Sylvia

Charity and Sylvia
ByRachel Hope Cleves

2014 • 8 Readers • 336 pages • 5

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
ByDaniel James Brown

2009 • 4 Readers • 580 pages • 5

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Tales of Troy and Greece
ByAndrew Lang

1 Reader

The Great Transformation

The Great Transformation
ByKaren Armstrong

2006 • 7 Readers • 592 pages • 4

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
ByKaren Abbott

2014 • 35 Readers • 544 pages • 3.7

History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
ByBrad Meltzer,Keith Ferrell

2013 • 6 Readers • 152 pages • 3.5

A Father's Story

A Father's Story
ByLionel Dahmer

1994 • 11 Readers • 255 pages • 5

Wicked Bugs

Wicked Bugs
ByAmy Stewart,Coleen Marlo

2011 • 13 Readers • 288 pages • 4.1

The Victorian Internet

The Victorian Internet
ByTom Standage

1998 • 35 Readers • 3.8

Religious Literacy

Religious Literacy
ByStephen Prothero

2008 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 3.7

Twenty years at Hull-House

Twenty years at Hull-House
ByJane Addams

3 Readers

Cover 8

The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
ByJohn J. Miller

1 Reader

Cover 8

The First Assassin
ByJohn J. Miller

4 Readers

Cover 7

S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
ByMary Beard

1 Reader

Cover 7

The Polygamist King: A True Story of Murder, Lust, and Exotic Faith in America
ByJohn J. Miller

1 Reader

Cover 3

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
ByBarbara Goldsmith

1998 • 3 Readers

Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
ByBarbara Weisberg

2004 • 2 Readers

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#1 of 4 in Yokai

The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai
ByMatthew Meyer(Illustrator)

2012 • 5 Readers • 3.8

House of Evil

House of Evil
ByJohn Dean

2008 • 4 Readers • 231 pages • 3.5

Man-Eater

Man-Eater
ByHarold Schechter

2015 • 3 Readers • 4.5

Charlatan

Charlatan
ByPope Brock

2008 • 11 Readers • 304 pages • 3

When Jesus Became God

When Jesus Became God
ByRichard E. Rubenstein

1999 • 6 Readers • 288 pages

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An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
ByGrant H. Palmer

1 Reader

The Murder of Helen Jewett

The Murder of Helen Jewett
ByPatricia Cline Cohen

1998 • 7 Readers • 512 pages

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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey Into the Evangelical Subculture in America
ByRandall Balmer

2 Readers

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Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
ByLee Miller

1 Reader

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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War
ByTim Rowland, J.W. Howard

1 Reader

Cover 2

The True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
ByPeter Ford, Michael Howell

1 Reader • 5

Cover 2

Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents
ByPaul Dickson

1 Reader

The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692
ByStacy Schiff

2015 • 74 Readers • 498 pages • 3.1

Dead Mountain

Dead Mountain
ByDonnie Eichar

2013 • 44 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
BySimon Winchester

2013 • 9 Readers • 428 pages • 3.7

Cover 3

Manson's Right-Hand Man Speaks Out
ByCharles "Tex" Watson

1 Reader • 5

Peaceful Neighbor

Peaceful Neighbor
ByMichael G. Long

2015 • 1 Reader • 222 pages • 5

The trial of Elizabeth Cree

The trial of Elizabeth Cree
ByPeter Ackroyd

1995 • 4 Readers • 261 pages • 3.7

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The Cave of John the Baptist: The Stunning Archaeological Discovery that has Redefined Christian History
ByShimon Gibson

1 Reader

Savage Girls and Wild Boys

Savage Girls and Wild Boys
ByMichael Newton

2004 • 2 Readers • 316 pages

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
ByMarilynne K. Roach

2013 • 14 Readers • 445 pages • 3.5

Calendar

Calendar
ByDavid Ewing Duncan

1998 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
ByErik Larson

2015 • 182 Readers • 450 pages • 4

Cover 4

Hysteria: The Disturbing History
ByAndrew Scull

2 Readers

Cover 4

Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England
ByJonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull

1 Reader

Cover 3

Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman
ByJoyce E. Salisbury

2 Readers

The History of Hell

The History of Hell
ByAlice K. Turner

1993 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5

Anno Dracula

#1 of 5 in Anno Dracula

Anno Dracula
ByKim Newman

1992 • 73 Readers • 380 pages • 3.9

The Devil's Rooming House

The Devil's Rooming House
ByM. William Phelps

2010 • 5 Readers • 251 pages • 5

Cover 1

True Ghost Stories and Eerie Legends from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood
ByDavid Domine

1 Reader

The Monster Show

The Monster Show
ByDavid J. Skal

2001 • 10 Readers • 448 pages • 5

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The Deadly Sisterhood
ByLeonie Frieda

2012 • 4 Readers • 403 pages

American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence

American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence
ByJane Hampton Cook

2013 • 3 Readers

Them

Them
ByJon Ronson

2001 • 39 Readers • 337 pages • 3.7

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy
ByPaul Thomas Murphy

2012 • 8 Readers • 669 pages

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
ByWendy Lower

2013 • 13 Readers • 288 pages • 3.3

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Answer Them Nothing: Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs
ByDebra Weyermann

1 Reader • 3