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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinister Stops and Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales
Nazis of Copley Square
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
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The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter

Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The Public Universal Friend
Fabric of Civilization
Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi
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The Prodigal Tongue

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The Creation of Inequality

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Black and British

Black Tudors: The Untold Story
The Big Myth
Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America
The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass
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White Reconstruction

The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism
From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five Lgbt Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Titanic: A Night Remembered
System Error
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Recoding Gender
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Broad Band
Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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The Political Brain

The Reluctant Empress
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Rosalind Franklin : The Dark Lady of DNA
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Climate Cover-Up

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Hackerlar
The Soul of A New Machine
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Coders
Ghost in the Wires
The American Plague
Pain: A Political History
Not Tonight
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Ether Day

Migraine
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
Amazon Unbound
Lincoln's Grave Robbers
The Sewing Girl's Tale: The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
The Second Amendment
Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline
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The Housekeeper's Tale

Pipe Dreams
The Celtic World
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back
A Train in Winter
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Buried
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
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Barbed Wire

The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Adrift: America in 100 Charts
The Nineties
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line
Joan of Arc: A History
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Holding the Line

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
One Person, One Vote
The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
Smashing Statues
Sandy Hook
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
The Destructionists
I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
There She Was
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