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Over Prairie Trails
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Lucky Goes to Sea
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
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De poorten van Damascus
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Todo in Tuscany: The Dog at the Villa
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
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3.82 avg rating — 5,084 ratings
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Het hemels vaderland: Hollanders in Siberië
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The City of Falling Angels
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Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
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3.85 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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Stephanie Coontz (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,594 ratings
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I Just Kept Hoping
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Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
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Sybil Kein (Editor)
4.29 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
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3.57 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
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Lolita lezen in Teheran
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3.66 avg rating — 139,074 ratings
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
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Jon Katz (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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Kings in Grass Castles
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Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish
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Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
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3.72 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land
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3.46 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
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4.06 avg rating — 13,107 ratings
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The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century France
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3.54 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Tom & Jack : A Frontier Story
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Family Romance: a Memoir
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3.87 avg rating — 399 ratings
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| 126 |
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A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball
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Susannah Fullerton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 203 ratings
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| 129 |
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Wij slaven van Suriname
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4.30 avg rating — 2,805 ratings
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
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3.87 avg rating — 84,381 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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Karen Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 13,129 ratings
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The Lady Bushranger : The life of Elizabeth Jessie Hickman
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Love Life
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3.68 avg rating — 11,573 ratings
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
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3.93 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Moondyne Joe: The Man and the Myth
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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3.74 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam
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3.68 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Uggie, the Artist: My Story
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Wendy Holden (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Courtesan’s Revenge
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3.55 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Road from Coorain
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4.02 avg rating — 13,409 ratings
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Pompeii : The Living City
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3.90 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
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4.18 avg rating — 1,448 ratings
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In anderhalve kamer : Drie autobiografische novellen
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3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
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3.91 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Georgette Heyer's Regency World
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Jennifer Kloester (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 3,876 ratings
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True North - A Memoir
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3.91 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
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3.91 avg rating — 571 ratings
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
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3.75 avg rating — 522 ratings
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The Great Hunger : Ireland 1845-9
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,028 ratings
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Expecting Adam: A true story of birth, transformation and unconditional love
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Martha N. Beck (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 10,799 ratings
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Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die
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Jon Katz (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
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3.89 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 2,916 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals
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4.17 avg rating — 62,269 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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Eleanor Herman (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 8,282 ratings
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The Letters of Rachel Henning
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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
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John Lewis-Stempel (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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Het land van zijn vader: een Marokkaanse familiegeschiedenis
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4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
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4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Josephine: A Life of the Empress
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3.82 avg rating — 978 ratings
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Het volk van Abdelkrim: actualiteit en geschiedenis van de Marokkaanse Rif
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Touched By a Rabbit
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The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline
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Voyage of the Beagle
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 4,946 ratings
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
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3.85 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 158,438 ratings
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Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
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Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
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Eugénie: The Empress and Her Empire
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Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
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The Mistress of Paris
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Catherine Hewitt (Goodreads Author)
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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Princesse of Versaille
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My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
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Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
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The Land Before Avocado
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Murder of a Medici Princess
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The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story
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Jacky Colliss Harvey (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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Our Dogs, Ourselves
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar
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Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
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Charles Beauclerk (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
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The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
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Secret Life of the Savoy
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
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Under Full Sail
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The Feminine Mystique
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