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The Lost Painting
How to Read a Novel
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Frock Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Cold Meat and How to Disguise It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Hard Times: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening
Go Down Together
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The Ascent of George Washington

The secret Holocaust diaries
Before the Dawn
Eiffel's tower and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count
Savages and Scoundrels
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Finding Oz

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Rag and Bone

Soul of the Age
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar Calendars to Atomic Clocks
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The Link

Lost on Planet China
The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn
Galileo's Daughter
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
Wild Life
Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
Soul  survivor
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
Time Was Soft There
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Farm City
Provenance
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
Into Africa: The Dramatic Retelling of the Stanley-Livingstone Story
Au revoir to all that : the rise and fall of French cuisine
The Rough Guide To Conspiracy Theories
Edinburgh: A History of the City
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God's Philosophers

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
Occult America
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London in the Nineteenth Century

Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis
Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones & Einstein's Brain: The Remarkable Stories Behind the Great Objects and Artifacts of History, from Antiquity to the Modern Era
Loot: Inside the World of Stolen Art
Stolen: The Gallery of Missing Masterpieces
The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art
Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France
Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery
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Becoming Alice

Cold
The past is never dead
The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini
Half Broke Horses
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Wisdom of the Last Farmer

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Blood, Iron and Gold

Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
The bread of angels
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The Butcher and the Vegetarian

Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives
Contested Will
Oprah
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
Creation
The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began
In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe
Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
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The Mental Floss History of the United States

Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War
Butterfly Woman
Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity
George Eliot in Love
Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women
A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond
The Heroine's Bookshelf
First Family
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Founding Gardeners
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
The Moral Lives of Animals
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
The Secret Museum
One for Sorrow: A Book of Old-Fashioned Lore
Drop Two Sizes: A Proven Plan to Ditch the Scale, Get the Body You Want & Wear the Clothes You Love!
Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science
Cooked
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
Voracious
Holy Sh*t
I Hate You Don't Leave Me : Understanding the Borderline Personality
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