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1001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History

1001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History

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Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth Century

Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth Century

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Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order

Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order

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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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Champlain's Dream

Champlain's Dream

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Trolleys Under The Hub (MA) (Images of America)

Trolleys Under The Hub (MA) (Images of America)

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Ben Behind His Voices: One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope

Ben Behind His Voices: One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope

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Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

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The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty he Founded

The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty he Founded

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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

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Active Measures

Active Measures

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The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign

The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign

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Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret Past

Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret Past

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In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

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Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen

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Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment (Scholastic Biography)

Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment (Scholastic Biography)

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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

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Child of the Civil Rights Movement

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

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We Took to the Woods

We Took to the Woods

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This Is Our City: Four Teams, Twelve Championships, and How Boston Became the Most Dominant Sports City in the World

This Is Our City: Four Teams, Twelve Championships, and How Boston Became the Most Dominant Sports City in the World

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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City

The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City

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Tristes Tropiques

Tristes Tropiques

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Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

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The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

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Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

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Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

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No Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943-1954 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

No Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943-1954 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

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War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back

War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back

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Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow!: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History

Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow!: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History

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The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)

The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)

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The Cat Who Went to Paris

The Cat Who Went to Paris

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Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-in): The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant

Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-in): The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant

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