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Nonfiction

  • Updated 11 months ago
  • 802 Books
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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
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Bastard Tongues

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day
National Geographic Society Atlas of World History
How the Irish Saved Civilization
The straight dope
More of the Straight Dope
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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Will In The World

Dogs: A Natural History
Julie & Julia
Running With Scissors
The real history behind the Templars
Maps and Legends
The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code
The Black Death: A Personal History
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Alphabet Juice

What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
The World Without Us
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
Buyology
The Devil in the White City
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Jane Boleyn

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Things That Make Us (Sic)

Supersense
The Templars: The Secret History Revealed
A second chicken soup for the woman's soul
How Rome Fell
Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved
Undaunted Courage
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Mistress of the Monarchy
Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey
The Diary of a Young Girl
The end of empire
The Forge of Christendom
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
An Edible History of Humanity
The Murder of King Tut
The Genesis Enigma: Why the Bible Is Scientifically Accurate
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Naming nature

The Templars: The History and the Myth
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
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The Big Questions

Holy Warriors
The Indispensable Book of Practical Life Skills
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
Lost states
The real history of the end of the world
Charlemagne
Empires and barbarians the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Courtiers
The Outlandish Companion
The Gifts of the Jews
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
Mysteries of the Middle Ages
How the States Got Their Shapes
Sh*t My Dad Says
101 places not to see before you die
The Bedwetter
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Caesars' Wives

The Wordy Shipmates
Common Phrases: And the Amazing Stories Behind Them
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
The Mind's Eye
Cleopatra: A Life
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Sex with the Queen
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Catherine of Aragon

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
The Most Human Human
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Daily Life in 18th-Century England
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Do Sparrows Like Bach?: The Strange and Wonderful Things that Are Discovered When Scientists Break Free
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Was Superman a Spy?
Catherine of Siena
The Mass: The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition
The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide
How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Brunelleschi's Dome
A Short History of Byzantium
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