The People's Almanac Presents The 20th Century: History With The Boring Parts Left Out
By: David Wallechinsky
4.09
Format: 921 pages, Hardcover
Newly revised and updated, an entertaining, offbeat, and colorful overview of the past century offe…
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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.98
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more
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2. Black Like Me
By: John Howard Griffin
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Usi… read more
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3. The Keepers of the House
By: Shirley Ann Grau
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the Houseis Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a m… read more
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5. Growing Up Catholic: The Millennium Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen and Everyone In-Between
By: Mary Jane Frances Cavolina , Jeffrey Allen Joseph Stone , Maureen Anne Teresa Kelly , None
3.41
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The original edition of Growing Up Catholic, along with its sequels, struck a heavenly chord with a… read more
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6. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command (Volume I: Manassas to Malvern Hill)
By: Douglas Southall Freeman
4.30
Format: None pages,
Douglas Southall Freeman. Lee's Lieutenants. 3 Volume Set. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970… read more
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7. The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story
By: Stephen Oppenheimer
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
History has long maintained that the Anglo-Saxon overtaking of the Iron Age Celts was the origin of… read more
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8. Coraline (Illustrated/Graphic Novel Edition)
By: Neil Gaiman , P. Craig Russell
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely si… read more
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9. Stormy Weather
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more
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10. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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11. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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12. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
By: Maggie Haberman
4.09
Format: 597 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more
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3.76
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14. Pennant Race: The Classic Game-by-Game Account of a Championship Season, 1961
By: Jim Brosnan
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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15. The People's Almanac Presents The 20th Century: History With The Boring Parts Left Out
By: David Wallechinsky
4.09
Format: 921 pages, Hardcover
Newly revised and updated, an entertaining, offbeat, and colorful overview of the past century offe… read more
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