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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

by David McCullough

Hardcover, 2005

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973.3 MC

John Adams

by David McCullough

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

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

Hardcover, 2015

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940.4 LAR

Fear: Trump in the White House

by Bob Woodward

Hardcover, 2018

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973.933 WOO

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

Hardcover, 2004

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304.2 DIA

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

by David Grann

Hardcover, 2018

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976.6 GRA

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

Hardcover, 2005

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970.01 M

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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Just Added, New Nonfiction

These Truths: A History of the United States

by Jill Lepore

Hardcover, 2018

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973 LEP

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Hardcover, 1978

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930 T

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

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 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

The Professor and the Madman

by Simon Winchester

Hardcover, 1998

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423 WIN

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Hardcover, 2011

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940.2 GRE

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

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 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

by David McCullough

Hardcover, 2011

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944.361 MCC

A History of the World in 100 Objects

by Neil MacGregor

Hardcover, 2011

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930.1 MAC

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

The Wordy Shipmates

by Sarah Vowell

Hardcover, 2008

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974.088 V

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

Paperback, 2003

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940.3 M

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hardcover, 2018

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New Bio

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BIO GOO

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

by Laura Hillenbrand

Hardcover, 2010

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940.54 HIL

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

by Alison Weir

Hardcover, 2000

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BIO ELEANOR

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

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940.54 ATK

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy

Hardcover, 2017

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940.54 MUN

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

by China Mieville

Hardcover, 2017

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947.084 MIE

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

by Jon Meacham

Hardcover, 2008

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BIO JACKSON

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

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

Hardcover, 2003

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BIO FRANKLIN

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 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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974.7 SHO

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

by Rick Atkinson

Paperback, 2007

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Liberation Trilogy

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940.54 ATK

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Hardcover, 2000

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385 AMBR

Unfamiliar Fishes

by Sarah Vowell

Hardcover, 2011

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996.9 VOW

A History of God

by Karen Armstrong

Hardcover, 1994

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291.2 ARM

The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900

by Simon Schama

Hardcover, 2017

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The Story of the Jews

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909 SCH

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

by Adrian Goldsworthy

Hardcover, 2006

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BIO CAESAR

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

by David Halberstam

Hardcover, 2007

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951.90 H

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1814-1848

by Daniel Walker Howe

Hardcover, 2007

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The Oxford History of the United States, Oxford Histories

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973.5 H

The greatest generation

by Tom Brokaw

Hardcover, 1998

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