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Hons and Rebels
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Hons and Rebels
Jessica Mitford
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However Long the Night
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However Long the Night
Aimee Molloy
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The River of Doubt
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The River of Doubt
Candice Millard
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This Time Is Different
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This Time Is Different
Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff
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Secondhand Time
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Secondhand Time
Svetlana Alexievich
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Shadow Divers
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Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
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Parting the Waters
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Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch
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Accidental Presidents
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Accidental Presidents
Jared Cohen
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
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American Reckoning
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American Reckoning
Christian Appy
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Hope in the Dark
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Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
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Hackers
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Hackers
Steven Levy
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Plutarch’s Lives
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Plutarch’s Lives
Plutarch
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Jared Diamond
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March
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March
John Lewis & Andrew Aydin
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Norse Mythology
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Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
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These Truths
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These Truths
Jill Lepore
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
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The Devil in the White City
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The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
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Working
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Working
Studs Terkel
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The Happiest Man on Earth
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The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku
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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements
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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements
Paul Strathern
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Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity
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Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity
John Murray Cuddihy
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Intellectuals
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Intellectuals
Paul Johnson
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