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100 Million Years Of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today

12 Years a Slave: Explore the Harsh Reality of American Slavery

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism: Why capitalism is not what you think it is.

A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

A Geography of Time: On Tempo, Culture, And The Pace Of Life

A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind

A History of the World in 6 Glasses: How your favorite drinks changed the world

A Little History of Economics: A whistle-stop tour of the major questions posed by economists through the centuries, from Aristotle to Thomas Piketty

A Little History of Philosophy: Discover the thinking that shaped the history of philosophy

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Million Years In A Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life From the Stone Age to the Phone Age

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the Modern Middle East

A People’s History of the United States: A brilliant and moving history of the American people

A Planet of Viruses: Why one of the best science thinkers alive says viruses are essential for life

A Promised Land: The first memoir of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States

A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

A Short History of Nearly Everything: A journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal

A Treatise of Human Nature: Explore the Roots of Human Reason

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

A Warning: A political tell-all of an administration in disarray

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

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Abroad in Japan: Ten years in the Land of the Rising Sun

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

Adrift: America in a Land of Broken Dreams

Afropean: Notes From Black Europe

After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made

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