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The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - AD 1700
A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
Looking for Miss America
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Blood Work

How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena
A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
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Iron Empires

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
The End of Everything
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
The War Queens
Humble Pi
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
Enemy of All Mankind
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Scourge of Henry VIII

The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
The Light Ages
Death by Shakespeare
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
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Cook, Taste, Learn

The Delusions of Crowds
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
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The Habsburgs

Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained
Four Lost Cities
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
Princes of the Renaissance
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
The Age of Wood
One Summer: America, 1927
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
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Uncrowned Queen

The Woman They Could Not Silence
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
Elizabeth & Margaret
How to Survive in Medieval England
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
The Exotic
Queens of the Crusades
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
Metropolis
Maiden Voyages
Innovation
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Powers and Thrones
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In the Shadow of the Empress

When Women Ruled the World
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
The Bright Ages
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
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The Greeks

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The Shadow King

Twelve Caesars
Otherlands
Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe
A Taste for Poison
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Impact
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George V

New Rome: The Empire in the East
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
How to Take Over the World
Off the Edge
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Music Is History
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The Nineties

The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
The Dark Queens
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
The End of the River
Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from Willam the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
Ingredients
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
France
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
Napoleon's Buttons
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
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