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Delve into the entire history of humankind: From the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the creation of the printing press to reports on Sierra Leone's civil war — we'll feed your hungry history brain.

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The Diary of a Young Girl

The famous story of a Jewish girl who went into hiding during the Second World War

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Jack Fairweather

One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

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To Kill a Mockingbird

A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic on Racial Prejudice & Injustice

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The Song of Roland

Enter a World of Medieval Heroism, Where Honor Reigns Supreme

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Cormac McCarthy

Or the Evening Redness in the West

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The Splendid and the Vile

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

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The Light of Days

The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

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The Happiest Man on Earth

The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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Angela Merkel with Beate Baumann

Memories 1954 – 2021

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Lincoln vs. Davis

The War of the Presidents

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The Arthashastra

A Pragmatic Guide to Building Strong and Prosperous States

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History of the Peloponnesian War

A Chronicle of Power, Conflict, and the Fall of Ancient Greece

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Children of Ash and Elm

A History of the Vikings

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Exploring Myths that Shape our Identity and Reality

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Yuval Noah Harari

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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The Demon of Unrest

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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Who Rules the World?

Explore the Hidden Powers That Govern Our World Today

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Examine the Roots of Conflict and the Path to Justice in Palestine

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Confronting the Presidents

No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

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How Economics Explains the World

A Short History of Humanity

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Essays In Persuasion

John Maynard Keynes

Essays on Global Economic Collapse and Revival

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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Jonathan Blitzer

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

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The Wide Wide Sea

The Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

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Or, all for the Best

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When the Clock Broke

Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

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Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

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Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed and Fail

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Dancing in the Streets

Barbara Ehrenreich

A History of Collective Joy

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The Art of Love

Uncover Ancient Wisdom on Love and Relationships

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Timothy C. Winegard

A Galloping History of Humanity

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The Shortest History of Economics

Explore Key Economic Moments and Their Impact on Today’s World

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The Wages of Destruction

The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

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Holding It Together

Jessica Calarco

How Women Became America's Safety Net

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The Situation Room

George Stephanopoulos

The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

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David E. Sanger

China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

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The Zone of Interest