21 best-selling history books like Who Was Catherine the Great? by Pam Pollack

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Who Was Catherine the Great?

By: Pam Pollack

4.14

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia's longest-ruling female leader! Born in 1729, P…

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1. 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

By: Eric Ripert

3.95

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as “heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"the important thing, Jacques instructed me, was to get the pan hot as you could before adding the meat - that, and always give good wine to your butcher."

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

"my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit up and he wrapped me in his arms as if it was Christmas morning and I was the best gift imaginable."

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

"We were all hard on our commis because we were always afraid, and cruelty is one of fear's most common by-products. It would take me a very long time to unlearn those methods of surviving under press…"

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

"Buth this is the thing, my child, " Madame Amparo continued. "You are headed for the same night sky. When it's your turn to burn brightly, remember where you have been. Be careful not to harm all of …"

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

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2. What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?

By: Dorothy Hoobler , Thomas Hoobler , Ted Hammond

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Franci… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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3. What Was the Great Depression?

By: Dede Putra , Janet B. Pascal

3.91

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens

4. What Was the Hindenburg?

By: Janet B. Pascal , David Groff , None

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the… read more

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5. What Was the Underground Railroad?

By: Yona Zeldis McDonough , James Bennett , Lauren Mortimer

4.40

Format: 205 pages,

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "c… read more

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6. What Was the Great Chicago Fire?

By: Janet B. Pascal

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the t… read more

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7. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

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  • childrens
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8. Ghost Roast

By: Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossib… read more

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9. I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 (I Survived #23)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.04

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lau… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Tarshis's I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 (I Survived #23) book and Pam Pollack's Who Was Catherine the Great?

  • childrens
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10. What Was World War I?

By: Nico Medina

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This compelling addition to the What Was? series covers what was supposed to be “the war to end all… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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11. Where Is the Great Wall?

By: Patricia Brennan Demuth

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Empero… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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12. What Was the Titanic?

By: Stephanie Sabol

4.36

Format: 112 pages, Library Binding

For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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13. Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?

By: Megan Stine

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappeara… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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14. What Was the Plague?

By: Roberta Edwards

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Oh, rats! It's time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death--the deadliest pandemic re… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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15. What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?

By: Steve Korté

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Learn about the deadly and unexpected blizzard that slammed the Midwestern United States in 1888 an… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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16. What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?

By: Caleb Gayle

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, O… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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17. What Was the Donner Party? (What Was?)

By: Ben Hubbard

3.85

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn about the treacherous journey across the Sierra Nevada mountain range that isolated and trapp… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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18. What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

By: Sherri L. Smith

4.12

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborho… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? (What Was?)

By: Jess M Brallier

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and wh… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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20. What Do We Know About the Winchester House?

By: Emma Carlson Berne

3.90

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Why wa… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
Cover of Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) by Nora Dåsnes

21. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.34

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more

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22. What Is the Story of: the Headless Horseman?

By: Sheila Keenan

4.13

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Discover the haunting story of the Headless Horseman, his chilling adventures in Sleepy Hollow, New… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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23. What Do We Know About Atlantis?

By: Emma Carlson Berne

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Does t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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24. What Was Reconstruction?

By: Sherri L. Smith

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelli… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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25. Where Is the North Pole?

By: Megan Stine

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Young armchair adventurers can travel to the topmost point on the globe and learn all about the vas… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916? (What Was?) by Nico Medina

26. What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916? (What Was?)

By: Nico Medina

4.16

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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27. What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

By: Kirsten Anderson

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Learn about Boston's molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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28. What Do We Know About the Roswell Incident?

By: Ben Hubbard

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Will w… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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29. Who Was Catherine the Great?

By: Pam Pollack

4.14

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia's longest-ruling female leader! Born in 1729, P… read more

Similar categories in Pam Pollack's Who Was Catherine the Great? book and Pam Pollack's Who Was Catherine the Great?

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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30. Where Is Machu Picchu?

By: Megan Stine

4.11

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

What's left of Machu Picchu stands as the most significant link to the marvelous Inca civilization … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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31. What Do We Know About the Mystery of D. B. Cooper? (What Do We Know About?)

By: Kirsten Anderson

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Find out what really happened when a strange man hijacked an airplane in 1971 and then parachuted o… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.17

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3.91

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4.66

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4.29

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4.19

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