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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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Salt: A World History
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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1776
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 45,541 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses
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In Search of the Trojan War
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4.09 avg rating — 850 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.87 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
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4.23 avg rating — 29,603 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
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4.28 avg rating — 2,851 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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4.01 avg rating — 15,399 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.20 avg rating — 6,969 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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4.23 avg rating — 66,766 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 93,676 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,059 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
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3.92 avg rating — 1,426 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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3.97 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
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4.13 avg rating — 24,804 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
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3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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4.04 avg rating — 936 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,441 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast
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4.02 avg rating — 14,453 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,145 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 83,189 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 926 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.09 avg rating — 27,984 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,471 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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4.37 avg rating — 3,495 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
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3.81 avg rating — 2,297 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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4.09 avg rating — 65,028 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,593 ratings
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John Adams
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
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4.03 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 448,137 ratings
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Dr Johnson's London
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4.04 avg rating — 779 ratings
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The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 116,787 ratings
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The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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4.16 avg rating — 8,653 ratings
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Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
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4.13 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
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Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
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4.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 198,893 ratings
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The Last Secret Agent
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4.44 avg rating — 2,383 ratings
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The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)
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4.14 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.87 avg rating — 10,730 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,033 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 158,432 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
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4.10 avg rating — 34,872 ratings
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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4.17 avg rating — 12,438 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,217,272 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors
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3.89 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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3.95 avg rating — 47,105 ratings
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Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
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3.87 avg rating — 8,454 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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3.91 avg rating — 10,528 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 81,793 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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3.87 avg rating — 46,633 ratings
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
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4.06 avg rating — 4,739 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 197,354 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 114,230 ratings
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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4.19 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
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3.46 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 54,952 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
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3.99 avg rating — 13,828 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 90,632 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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4.23 avg rating — 25,986 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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4.16 avg rating — 11,383 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
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3.84 avg rating — 3,850 ratings
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A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
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Connections
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4.25 avg rating — 2,481 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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3.81 avg rating — 46,517 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,090 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
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Pompeii: The Living City
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3.90 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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All the President's Men
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4.18 avg rating — 57,206 ratings
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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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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
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3.61 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
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4.07 avg rating — 5,321 ratings
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A History of Pagan Europe
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3.74 avg rating — 700 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
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3.92 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
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3.90 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute
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Digging Dusky Diamonds
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This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government
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Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
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3.87 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Bank Holiday Murders: The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders
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3.81 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Unveiling the Mystic Ciphers: Thomas Anson and the Shepherd's Monument Inscription
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Näher an die Ferne: Hologramm einer Reise (Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law
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4.04 avg rating — 69 ratings
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