Charlemagne: From the Hammer to the Cross
By: Richard Winston
3.73
Format: 154 pages, MP3 CD
It was so common for their rulers to be born bastards that he tough and practical-minded Franks ign…
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3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dy… read more
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2. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By: Colin Woodard
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more
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3. Vincent Van Gogh: A Biography
By: Julius Meier-Graefe
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
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By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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5. Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.31
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars … read more
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6. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
By: J.D. Vance
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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7. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
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4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
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9. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
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By: Mike Duncan
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
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14. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
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4.15
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16. Charlemagne: From the Hammer to the Cross
By: Richard Winston
3.73
Format: 154 pages, MP3 CD
It was so common for their rulers to be born bastards that he tough and practical-minded Franks ign… read more
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