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520 B

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hardcover, 2005

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973.7 G

1776

Hardcover, 2005

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973.3 MC

John Adams

Hardcover, 2001

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BIO ADAMS

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

by Jared M. Diamond

Paper Book, 1997

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303.4 DIA

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Hardcover, 2015

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909 HAR

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

Hardcover, 2004

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304.2 DIA

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

Hardcover, 2015

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940.4 LAR

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

Hardcover, 2005

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970.01 M

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Hardcover, 1978

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930 T

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

Nonfiction, New Nonfiction

Hardcover, 2019

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977 MCC

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

by David Grann

Hardcover, 2018

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Just Added Books, Nonfiction, New Nonfiction

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976.6 GRA

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

Hardcover, 2020

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305.5 WIL

By Bill Bryson - At Home: A Short History of Private Life (12.2.2009)

by Bill Bryson

Hardcover, 2009

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643.1 BRY

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson

Hardcover, 2003

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364.15 L

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

Hardcover, 2011

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943.086 LAR

The Professor and the Madman

by Simon Winchester

Hardcover, 1998

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423 WIN

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Paperback, 2016

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510.92 SHE

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Hardcover, 2011

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Nonfiction, New Nonfiction

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940.2 GRE

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean

Hardcover, 2018

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027.009 ORL

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

by Simon Winchester

Hardcover, 2003

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551.21 W

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel

Hardcover, 1995

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523.62 SOB

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hardcover, 2013

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973.91 GOO

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Hardcover, 1996

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BIO LEWIS & CLARK

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

by Margaret MacMillan

Hardcover, 2013

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940.3 MAC

One Summer: America. 1927

by Bill Bryson

Hardcover, 2013

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973.91 BRY

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

Hardcover, 2011

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944.361 MCC

Fear: Trump in the White House

by Bob Woodward

Hardcover, 2018

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973.933 WOO

The Wright Brothers

Hardcover, 2015

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629.130 MCC

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

Paperback, 2003

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940.3 M

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

Hardcover, 2011

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304.8 WIL

A History of the World in 100 Objects

by Neil MacGregor

Hardcover, 2011

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930.1 MAC

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

by Alison Weir

Hardcover, 2000

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BIO ELEANOR

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

by Candice Millard

Hardcover, 2011

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973.8 MIL

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Hardcover, 2010

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940.54 HIL

The Wordy Shipmates

by Sarah Vowell

Hardcover, 2008

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974.088 V

1421: The Year China Discovered America

by Gavin Menzies

Hardcover, 2003

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910.951 M

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan

Hardcover, 2005

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978.032 E

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy)

by Rick Atkinson

Hardcover, 2013

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Liberation Trilogy (3)

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940.54 ATK

The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century

by Thomas L. Friedman

Paper Book, 2005

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303.48 FRI

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

by Doug Stanton

Hardcover, 2009

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958.1047 S

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

Hardcover, 2003

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Just Added Books, Nonfiction, New Nonfiction

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BIO FRANKLIN

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

by John M. Barry

Paperback, 2005

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614.5 BAR

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

by Jon Meacham

Hardcover, 2008

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BIO JACKSON

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

by Daniel James Brown

Hardcover, 2013

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Northwest

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NWC 979 BRO

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

by Tom Reiss

Hardcover, 2012

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944.04 REI

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

Paperback, 2011

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Just Added Books, Biography, New Biography

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970 GWY

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

by Sonia Purnell

Paperback, 2020

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BIO HAL

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

by David W. Blight

Hardcover, 2018

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Just Added Books, Biography, New Biography

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BIO BLI

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

by Russell Shorto

Paperback, 2005

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