Genre search:General Nonfiction

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

by Ian Mortimer
Paperback, 2013
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Time Traveller's Guide (2)

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

by Lydia Kang
Hardcover, 2017
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20th Century & Contemporary American, History, Nonfiction, Science, Women Writers, History of Science
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The Templars

by Dan Jones
Paperback, 2018
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20th Century & Contemporary BritLit, History, Middle Ages, Middle East, Nonfiction, Orient & Asia, History: Orient & Asia, War and Peace
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels through My Childhood

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2007
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The Assault on Reason

by Al Gore
CD audiobook, 2007
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The Assault on Reason

by Al Gore
Paperback, 2007
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

by Jennifer Wright
Hardcover, 2017
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Theodore Rex

by Edmund Morris
Paperback, 2002
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Morris' Theodore Roosevelt (2)

Wicked Plants: The A-Z of Plants That Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise Offend

by Amy Stewart
Hardcover, 2010
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Nature - Gardens - Environment, Nonfiction, Science, Women Writers
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

by Christopher Skaife
Paperback, 2019
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

by Shaun Bythell
Hardcover, 2020
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20th Century & Contemporary BritLit, Books on Books - Reading - Writing, Humor - Comedy - Satire, Memoirs - Biographies - Letters - Diaries, Nonfiction, Scotland
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

by Eleanor Janega
Paperback, 2024
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The Hollow Crown

by Dan Jones
Paperback, 2015
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How to be a Victorian

by Ruth Goodman
Paperback, 2014
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How to Be ... (1)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer
Paperback, 2001
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Germany & German Literature, History, Nonfiction, German History, War and Peace
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The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman
Paperback, 2004
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The Coming of the Great War (2)

Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

by Michael Isikoff
Paperback, 2018
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

by Annie Spence
Hardcover, 2017
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson
Paperback, 2004
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War on Peace

by Ronan Farrow
Paperback, 2018
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

by Tony Horwitz
Paperback, 1999
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Truman

by David McCullough
Paperback, 1993
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The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton
Paperback, 1999
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Classics, Essays - Addresses - Lectures, History, Journalism, Law, Nonfiction, Politics, Legal History, American History, History of Literature, War and Peace
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Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence

by Ross King
Paperback, 2008
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The Men Who United the States

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2013
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea

by Sebastian Junger
Paperback, 2006
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2021 Halloween Book Bingo, 20th Century & Contemporary American, Journalism, Memoirs - Biographies - Letters - Diaries, Nature - Gardens - Environment, Nonfiction, Sense of Time - Sense of Place, American History
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The Perfect Storm

by Sebastian Junger
CD audiobook, 2000
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Notes on a Nervous Planet

by Matt Haig
Paperback, 2019
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Notes on a Nervous Planet

by Matt Haig
Digital audiobook, 2018
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The Diary of a Bookseller

by Sean Bythell
Paperback, 2018
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird
Paperback, 2006
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2018
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20th Century & Contemporary American, History, Nonfiction, American History, War and Peace
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The American Revolution (3)

My Own Words

by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hardcover, 2016
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior
Paperback, 2018
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Made in America

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1998
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

by John Kelly
Paperback, 2006
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

by Alison Weir
Paperback, 2001
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini
Paperback, 2017
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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
Paperback, 2002
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

by Fiona Countess of Carnarvon
Paperback, 2011
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund De Waal
Paperback, 2011
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Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1996
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Churchill

by Andrew Roberts
Hardcover, 2018
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science -- and the World

by Rachel Swaby
Paperback, 2015
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

by Elizabeth Gilbert
Paperback, 2007
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich
Paperback, 2017
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Eastern Europe, Memoirs - Biographies - Letters - Diaries, Nobel Prize, Nonfiction, Politics, Russia, Sense of Time - Sense of Place, Women Writers, Russian History
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Marie Antoinette

by Antonia Fraser
Paperback, 2002
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

by James Mustich
Hardcover, 2018
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All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward
Paperback, 1976
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2001
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Bill Bryson's Travels (2)
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