9 best-selling history books like Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History by Erika Owen

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Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

By: Erika Owen

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers,…

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

By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Cover of Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World (Ann Shen Legendary Ladies Collection) by Ann Shen

2. Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World (Ann Shen Legendary Ladies Collection)

By: Ann Shen

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovel… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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3. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (Catwings, #3)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , None

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The third installment in the saga introduces a kitten whose family thinks he is so remarkable that … read more

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4. How We'll Live on Mars

By: Stephen L. Petranek

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the c… read more

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5. Jane on Her Own (Catwings, #4)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , None

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jane, the youngest of the catwings, goes looking for adventure in the big city and captured! Longin… read more

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6. My Princess Boy

By: None , None

3.90

Format: None pages,

Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to… read more

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7. The Haunted Bookshop

By: Christopher Morley

3.55

Format: 320 pages,

"When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, protagonist of these classic bookselling novels, … read more

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8. Hild

By: Nicola Griffith

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, us… read more

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9. Briar Rose

By: Jane Yolen

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beautythat is "heartbreaking and heartwarming." An American Librar… read more

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10. 血の轍 3 [Chi no Wadachi 3]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.21

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

そして、「究極のマザコン」が生まれる… 自我を吸い取られた静一は ママの玩具としての生活を受け入れる。 わずかでも自己を主張すれば 思いもよらぬ「攻撃」が待ち受ける そんな“母親地獄”… read more

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11. 血の轍 5 [Chi no Wadachi 5]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.15

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

毒親VSカノジョ…静一を巡り大激突! 「お前なんかいらない」… 初めてママに反抗した静一はそのまま吹石さんの部屋にコッソリ泊まることになる。 初めての女の子の部屋…そして迎える二人きりの夜… read more

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12. 血の轍 6 [Chi no Wadachi 6]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

静一がママとの棲み家へ、恐怖の帰宅!? 「女」として自分に迫りくる吹石さんを すんでのところで拒否した静一。 それは脳裏に数多のママが過ぎったから・・・ 「ママを・・・ママを裏切るわ… read more

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13. 24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

By: Philip Matyszak

3.98

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edg… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

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15. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

By: Maria Smilios

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"

-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

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16. Golem Girl: A Memoir

By: Riva Lehrer

4.32

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstros… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

By: Erika Owen

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers,… read more

Similar categories in Erika Owen's Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History book and Erika Owen's Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • feminism
  • research
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • crime
Cover of We Did That? Human Bloopers, Secret Histories, Medical Mysteries, Strange Superstitions. and Other Curiositites from Our Past by Sophie Stirling

18. We Did That? Human Bloopers, Secret Histories, Medical Mysteries, Strange Superstitions. and Other Curiositites from Our Past

By: Sophie Stirling

3.37

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Weird Trivia and Strange History Everyone loves fun trivia! Buckle up for a very odd ride through … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The History of the World in Fifty Dogs by Mackenzi Lee

19. The History of the World in Fifty Dogs

By: Mackenzi Lee

3.98

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Mackenzi Lee teams up with artist Petra Eriksson for The History … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Saliman and the Memory Stone

By: Erica Lyons

4.75

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When young Saliman's family left Yemen in 1881 to move to Jerusalem there were so many things they … read more

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21. Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas

By: Leigh Lewis

4.13

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

This wow-worthy book proves that women have been making their mark in all aspects of history―even t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

6 must-read historical books like Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History by Erika Owen

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

Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World (Ann Shen Legendary Ladies Collection)

Ann Shen

4.04

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24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

Philip Matyszak

3.98

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Erika Owen

3.67

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Dava Sobel

3.63

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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

Alastair Bonnett

4.23

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Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya

Nicholas Best

3.83

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Philip Matyszak

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