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Weird Al: The Book (2012)

4

Sisters of Fortune: America’s Caton Sisters at ...

4

The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and ...

3

Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Defi...

4

The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of M...

5

Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted Hist...

3

Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light (2...

3

Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People behind Ever...

4

John Bemelmans Marciano

Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker (2009)

5

The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif (2008)

4

The Secret Life of Words: How English Became En...

3

Henry Hitchings

What Language Is (And What it Isn't and What it...

3

John H. McWhorter

From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women,...

5

Julia P. Gelardi

The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "...

4

Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptio...

5

Patricia T. O'Conner

The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Te...

3

A Little Book of Language (2010)

3

A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and ...

4

Helen Rappaport

5

Peter FitzSimons

The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Geo...

5

The Zone of Interest (2014)

5

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revoluti...

4

Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most ...

4

The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story (2013)

5

The Report (2010)

5

Jessica Francis Kane

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After...

3

The Queen Mother: The Official Biography (2009)

3

William Shawcross

Wysoki. Śmierć Camerona Doomadgee (2010)

4

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and th...

5

In the Land of Invented Languages Publisher: Sp...

3

Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Pr...

5

Im Spiegel der Sprache: Warum die Welt in ander...

5

Love and Treasure (2014)

5

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English (2010)

4

Natasha Solomons

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, ...

3

The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Col...

4

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (2013)

5

The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the ...

3

Zachary Karabell

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman i...

3

Nicholas Shakespeare

The Lucky Country (1964)

4

Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (2012)

3

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Earl...

4

Rachel Hope Cleves

Darwin: A Graphic Biography (2009)

4

Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia (2013)

3

A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England (2012)

3

Suzannah Lipscomb

The Grey Album: Music, Shadows, Lies (2012)

4

Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilde...

5

Jeannine Atkins

Red Inferno: 1945 (2010)

4

Gratitude (2008)

3

Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman...

4

The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin ...

3

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in...

4

John Sutherland

Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn...

5

Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American His...

3

John Fabian Witt

War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Na...

3

James M. McPherson

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Rev...

4

1861: The Civil War Awakening (2011)

4

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginn...

5

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American S...

3

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West...

3

Stephen R. Platt

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the ...

4

Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman (2012)

3

The Widow's Daughter: A Novel (2012)

3

Odd Type Writers: From Joyce and Dickens to Wha...

4

Celia Blue Johnson

The Civil War in 50 Objects (2013)

3

C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race (2013)

3

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire ...

4

Victor Sebestyen

Field Grey: A Bernie Gunther Mystery (2010)

3

Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled ...

3

Craig Steven Wilder

Orders from Berlin. by Simon Tolkien (2012)

3

Why? Because We Still Like You: An Oral History...

4

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

3

When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Lead...

5

J. Patrick Lewis

Pacific Glory (2011)

5

P.T. Deutermann

Diving into Darkness: A True Story of Death and...

3

3

Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Z...

5

Thief of Glory (2014)

4

Sigmund Brouwer

No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virgi...

5

Saving Mozart (2013)

3

Raphaël Jerusalmy

On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Fam...

5

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop ...

3

Leonard S. Marcus

Brothers Forever: The Enduring Bond between a M...

3

Autism's Hidden Blessings: Discovering God's Pr...

3

Black and white : the confrontation of Reverend...

4

Larry Dane Brimner

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters (2009)

3

Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollyw...

5

How to Read a Novelist (2012)

3

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia...

4

The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The I...

4

Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World ...

3

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a Wor...

3

The Skin of Water (2012)

4

Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein (2011)

3

Susan Goldman Rubin

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne (2009)

3

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinv...

4

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014)

3

Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750...

3

Odd Arne Westad

Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution (2012)

4

Reading by Lightning (2008)

5

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