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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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Ariana Neumann (Goodreads Author)
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The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
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A Very Punchable Face
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Goya: A Portrait of the Artist
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Finding Freedom
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Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams
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Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
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God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
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Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 4,406 ratings
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Galileo and the Science Deniers
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Mario Livio (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
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Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
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Neal Gabler (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 297 ratings
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American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason
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Brett Dakin (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Beethoven: A Life
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Sally Rand: American Sex Symbol
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William Hazelgrove (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
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Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
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Reeves Wiedeman (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 13,215 ratings
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His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
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Jonathan Alter (Goodreads Author)
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Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver
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The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn
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Alice L. George (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
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Leslie Brody (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 954 ratings
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
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Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
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Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
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A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
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The Great Pretender
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Susannah Cahalan (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 12,277 ratings
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Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary
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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
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The Lady of Sing Sing: An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age
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Idanna Pucci (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Willie Nelson: A Graphic History
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T.J. Kirsch (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
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More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood
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Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life
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Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution
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Maureen O'Hara: The Biography
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His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
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Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
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Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey
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David Schneider (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan
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Amy Alznauer (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America
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You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption
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The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor
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Amy Alznauer (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Henry Knox's Noble Train: The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution
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William Hazelgrove (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Ray by Ray: A Daughter's Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray
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Nicca Ray (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown
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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
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George Washington! (Action Presidents #1)
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Fred Van Lente (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 198 ratings
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AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America
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Lynda Lopez (Editor)
3.64 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
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Churchill: A Graphic Biography
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Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen
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Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
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Before Chappaquiddick: The Untold Story of Mary Jo Kopechne and the Kennedy Brothers
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Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate
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Michael K. Brantley (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
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Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life
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Troy R. Saxby (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
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Lisa Napoli (Goodreads Author)
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Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
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William L. Davis (Goodreads Author)
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The Ox: The Authorized Biography of The Who's John Entwistle
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Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
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Patricia Miller (Goodreads Author)
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Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy
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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
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Miles Harvey (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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Lynne Olson (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 8,513 ratings
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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
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Peter Baker (Goodreads Author)
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
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Douglas Boin (Goodreads Author)
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
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Ben Hubbard (Goodreads Author)
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Rodin : Fugit Amor, An Intimate Portrait
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The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World
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William Drozdiak (Goodreads Author)
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Political Godmother: Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party
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Meg Heckman (Goodreads Author)
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The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934
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The World of Jak Smyrl: South Carolina Artist, Journalist, Cartoonist
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Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
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Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
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Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time
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Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
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Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
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Warhol
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
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The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World
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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
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Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
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This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
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Jon Mooallem (Goodreads Author)
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
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David G. Marwell (Goodreads Author)
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Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone
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