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The Monster's Bones
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
A History of the World in 100 Animals
How Fast Did T. Rex Run?
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
España: A Brief History of Spain
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
Do Let's Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England's Medieval Queens
The Queen: Her Life
Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Pump
Plagues Upon the Earth
Butts: A Backstory
How to Survive a Horror Movie
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
The King: The Life of Charles III
Full Spectrum How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Geography Is Destiny
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
What the Ear Hears
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
Blood, Fire Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome: A Guide to the Classical Pantheon
White: The History of a Color
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Femina
Spare
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth
But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Half Lives The Unlikely History of Radium
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
The World: A Family History of Humanity
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
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Germany in the World

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
100 Places to See After You Die
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens
Emperor of Rome
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
Traitor King
American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America
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The Duchess Countess

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
Pax
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
American Midnight
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
Karma: My Autobiography
The Secret Life of Hidden Places
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
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Pleased to Meet Me

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
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