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Mythical Zoo: Animals in Life, Legend and Literature
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy
The Chemistry of Alchemy
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The Third Horseman

West of the Revolution
A Dog's History of the World: Canines and the Domestication of Humans
Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
The Victorian city
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet
Inside the Victorian Home
The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Demon's brood
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
How We Got to Now
Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
How to be a Victorian
The Age of the Vikings
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The Perfect King

The Middle Ages
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1000 Years of Annoying the French

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad
A Crack in the Edge of the World
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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The Age of Wonder

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 Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Constantine the Emperor
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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A People's History of the United States

Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
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
Salt: A World History
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
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
European History for Dummies
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
British history for dummies
Joan of Arc: A History
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The Story of Western Science

Dr. Mutter's Marvels
A Concise History of Modern Europe
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
Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth
The Johnstown Flood
Packing for Mars
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Queen Isabella

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & 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
George Washington's Secret Six The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity
Georgette Heyer's Regency World
Inglorious Royal Marriages: A Demi-Millennium of Unholy Mismatrimony
A is for Arsenic
A Little History of the United States
The Making of Home
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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
Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
The Witches: Salem, 1692
The axe and the oath
Dynasty
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
It Ended Badly
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
The Lost Tudor Princess
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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
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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