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• Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

  Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

  Abbott, Karen

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• Iron Curtain

  The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

  Applebaum, Anne

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• SPQR

  A History of Ancient Rome

  Beard, Mary

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• The Rape of Nanking

  The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

  Chang, Iris

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• Jesus and John Wayne

  How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

  Du Mez, Kristin Kobes

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• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

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• Original Sins

  The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

  Ewing, Eve L.

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• River Kings

  A New History of the Vikings From Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

  Jarman, Cat

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• Unbroken

  A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

  Hillenbrand, Laura

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• An Unfinished Love Story

  A Personal History of the 1960s

  Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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• The Great Partition

  The Making of India and Pakistan

  Khan, Yasmin

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• The Doctors Blackwell

  How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

  Nimura, Janice P.

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• Paris 1919

  Six Months That Changed the World

  MacMillan, Margaret

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• The Radium Girls

  The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

  Moore, Kate

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• The Wives

  The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

  Popoff, Alexandra

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• The Five

  The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

  Rubenhold, Hallie

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• Hidden Figures

  The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

  Shetterly, Margot Lee

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• Cleopatra

  A Life

  Schiff, Stacy

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• A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

  Murder in Ancient Rome

  Southon, Emma

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• The Guns of August

  The Outbreak of World War I

  Tuchman, Barbara W.

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