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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 & 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 & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & 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: The Ocean of the Future
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: Paging Through History
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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