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- A dangerous collaboration : a Veronica Speedwell mystery
- A darker sea : Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 : a novel
- A deal with the devil : the dark and twisted true story of one of the biggest cons in history
- A death in Live Oak
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A hard rain : America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost
- A hero of France : a novel
- A history of American labor
- A history of Britain : 1945 to Brexit
- A history of France
- A history of Iran : empire of the mind
- A history of Judaism
- A history of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
- A home called New England : a celebration of hearth and history
- A hunt in winter : a Joe Swallow mystery
- A kids' guide to the American Revolution
- A lab of one's own : science and suffrage in the first World War
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A line in the river : Khartoum, city of memory
- A little maid of Province Town/
- A matter of honor : Pearl Harbor: betrayal, blame, and a family's quest for justice
- A mortal likeness: : a Victorian mystery
- A murdered peace
- A perfect mess : the unlikely ascendancy of American higher education
- A perilous path : talking race, inequality, and the law
- A prisoner in Malta
- A reckoning
- A ringside affair : boxing's last golden age
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A slant of light : a novel
- A sovereign people : the crises of the 1790s and the birth of American nationalism
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous civil rights photographer to infiltrate the movement
- A time of scandal : Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the making of the Veterans Bureau
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A treacherous curse
- A wilder time : notes from a geologist at the edge of the Greenland ice
- Accessible America : a history of disability and design
- Across the blue : a novel
- Acts of allegiance : a novel
- Ada Lovelace
- After Lincoln : how the north won the Civil War and lost the peace
- After the bloom
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Ahimsa
- Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair : the end of the gangster era in Chicago
- Alexander Graham Bell answers the call
- Alice on the island : a Pearl Harbor survival story
- All the lives we never lived : a novel
- All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alphabetical : how every letter tells a story
- Alt-America : the rise of the radical right in the age of Trump
- America before : the key to Earth's lost civilization
- America's bank : the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American dialogue : the founders and us
- American discontent : the rise of Donald Trump and decline of the golden age
- American enterprise : a history of business in America
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis - and how to end it
- American founders : how people of African descent established freedom in the new world
- American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts
- American runway : 75 years of fashion and the front row
- Americana : a 400-year history of American capitalism
- América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
- An African American and Latinx history of the United States
- An Army like no other : how the Israel Defense Force made a nation
- An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America
- An indigenous peoples' history of the United States
- Anatomy of a genocide : the life and death of a town called Buczacz
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Anesthesia : the gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Ann fights for freedom : an Underground Railroad survival story
- Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession : a novel
- Annelies
- Antisemitism : here and now
- Architecture : a visual history
- Art and how it works : an introduction to art for children
- Artists : their lives and works
- Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968
- At the wolf's table
- Atomic Blonde.
- Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad days in history : a gleefully grim chronicle of misfortune, mayhem, and misery for every day of the year
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Band of giants : the amateur soldiers who won America's independence
- Barrel strength bourbon : the explosive growth of America's whiskey
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Basketball : a love story
- Battles of World War I
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Behind the throne : a domestic history of the British royal household
- Belfast and Searsport
- Belladonna
- Beneath a scarlet sky
- Berlin 1936 : sixteen days in August
- Berlin calling : a story of anarchy, music, the Wall, and the birth of the new Berlin
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen
- Bestseller : a century of America's favorite books
- Between before & after
- Beyond these walls : rethinking crime and punishment in the United States
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies, The Civil War
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Birdcage walk
- Birth of a movement. : the battle against America's first blockbuster
- Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague
- Black Lives Matter
- Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
- Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
- Blood Papa : Rwanda's new generation
- Blood is blood
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Blood water paint
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Boom : mad money, mega dealers, and the rise of contemporary art
- Boom town : the fantastical saga of Oklahoma city, its chaotic founding , its apocalyptic weather, its purloined basketball team, and the dream of becoming a world-class metropolis
- Borderland : a journey through the history of Ukraine
- Boston Celtics
- Brahmin capitalism : frontiers of wealth and populism in America's first Gilded Age
- Breaking Babe Ruth : baseball's campaign against its biggest star
- Breaking the chains of gravity : the story of spaceflight before NASA
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broadway : a history of New York City in thirteen miles
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian war
- Burning down the Haus : punk rock, revolution, and the fall of the Berlin Wall
- CRU Oyster Bar Nantucket cookbook : savoring four seasons of the good life
- CSS Alabama vs USS Kearsarge : Cherbourg 1864
- Camelot's end : Kennedy vs. Carter and the fight that broke the democratic party
- Can democracy work? : a short history of a radical idea, from ancient Athens to our world
- Can you crack the code?
- Capitalism in America : a history
- Capturing music : the story of notation
- Careers for women : a novel
- Cast of characters : Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker
- Catching breath : the making and unmaking of tuberculosis
- Cattle kingdom : the hidden history of the cowboy West
- Celestial bodies : how to look at ballet
- Chasing the moon : the people, the politics, and the promise that launched America into the space age
- Chasing the scream : the first and last days of the war on drugs
- Cherished Mercy
- Chicago : a novel
- Christian : the politics of a word in America
- Chromatopia : an illustrated history of colour
- Cities : the first 6,000 years
- City of light : the making of modern Paris
- City of masks
- City of sharks
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Civilizing torture : an American tradition
- Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
- Code word courage
- Colonial Boothbay : mid-1600s to 1775
- Comics for choice : illustrated abortion stories, history, and politics
- Confidential Confidential : the inside story of Hollywood's notorious scandal magazine
- Congo stories : battling five centuries of exploitation and greed
- Courage & defiance : stories of spies, saboteurs, and survivors in World War II Denmark
- Courting India : seventeenth-century England, Mughal India, and the origins of empire
- Courting Mr. Lincoln
- Courting death : the Supreme Court and capital punishment
- Creators, conquerors, and citizens : a history of ancient Greece
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dancing revolution : bodies, space, and sound in American cultural history
- Dark asylum
- Dark asylum
- Dark queen rising
- Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow
- Dawn of the code war : America's battle against Russia, China, and the rising global cyber threat
- Day after night : a novel
- Day of the Dragon King
- Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence
- Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Defining moments in Black history : reading between the lies
- Dinner in Rome : a history of the world in one meal
- Doctor Benjamin Franklin's dream America
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dogs at the perimeter
- Dominion : the history of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
- Don't make me pull over! : an informal history of the family road trip
- Don't stop the presses! : truth, justice, and the American newspaper
- Down East
- Dragon teeth
- Dragon's Jaw : an epic story of courage and tenacity in Vietnam
- Drinking in America : our secret history
- Drive : the definitive history of driving
- Drones
- Drug warrior : inside the hunt for El Chapo and the rise of America's opioid crisis
- Drunks : an American history
- Dynasty : the rise and fall of the House of Caesar
- Eager : the surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter
- Earthrise : Apollo 8 and the photo that changed the world
- Eat up! : an infographic exploration of food
- El Norte : the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America
- Electric October : seven World Series games, six lives, five minutes of fame that lasted forever
- Electric shock : from the gramophone to the iPhone : 125 years of pop music
- Elevated : the global rise of the N.B.A.
- Emmi in the city : a Great Chicago Fire survival story
- Empire of mud : the secret history of Washington, DC
- Empires in the sun : the struggle for the mastery of Africa
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Endeavour : the ship that changed the world
- Enemies and neighbors : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- England expects : a Mirabelle Bevan mystery
- Escape from Egypt!
- Europa : how Europe shaped the modern world
- Europeans abroad, 1450-1750
- Everything is broken up and dances : the crushing of the middle class
- Exodus.
- Exploring space : from Galileo to the Mars Rover and beyond
- Failure is not an option : mission control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and beyond
- Fascism : a warning
- Fashion climbing
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fault Lines : A History of the United States Since 1974
- Feast of sorrow : a novel of Ancient Rome
- Fight the power : African Americans and the long history of police brutality in New York City
- Fighters in the shadows : a new history of the French resistance
- Finding zero : a mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers
- Five for freedom : the African American soldiers in John Brown's army
- Flood of fire : a novel
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Food fight! : a mouthwatering history of who ate what and why through the ages
- Fools and mortals : a novel
- Football for a buck : the crazy rise and crazier demise of the USFL
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Four funerals and maybe a wedding
- Francis I : the maker of modern France
- Frank and Al : FDR, Al Smith, and the unlikely alliance that created the modern Democratic Party
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free from all danger : a Richard Nottingham mystery
- Free the beaches : the story of Ned Coll and the battle for America's most exclusive shoreline
- Freedom in Congo Square
- French Louisiana music and its patrons : the popularization and transformation of a regional sound
- Friend me! : six hundred years of social networking in America
- Game faces : early baseball cards from the Library of Congress
- Gaza : an inquest into its martyrdom
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- Gentlemen scientists and revolutionaries : the Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment
- George Washington's journey : the president forges a new nation
- Ghosts of Gold Mountain : the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad
- Girl Waits with Gun
- Girl at war : a novel
- Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- Glorious war : the Civil War adventures of George Armstrong Custer
- Good reasons for bad feelings : insights from the frontier of evolutionary psychiatry
- Graffiti palace
- Great expectations
- Greater Gotham : a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919
- Greeks of the Merrimack Valley
- Green : a novel
- Grenade
- Grunt : the curious science of humans at war
- Gutenberg's apprentice : a novel
- Hadrian's Wall
- Hammering for freedom : the William Lewis story
- Handsome Johnny : the life and death of Johnny Rosselli : gentleman gangster, Hollywood producer, CIA assassin
- Hanging Mary : a novel
- Harbor of spies : a novel of historic Havana
- Harlem hellfighters
- Harriet Tubman
- Haskell's historical guide-book of Somerville
- He : a novel
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Her fearless run : Kathrine Switzer's historic Boston Marathon
- History teaches us to resist : how progressive movements have succeeded in challenging times
- Hitler and the Habsburgs : the Führer's vendetta against the Austrian royals
- Hitler in Los Angeles : how Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and America
- Hitler's collaborators : choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe
- Hitler's last plot : the 139 VIP hostages selected for death in the final days of World War II
- Home : the best of the New York times home section : the way we live now
- Hotel on shadow lake
- House of furies
- How the French saved America : soldiers, sailors, diplomats, Louis XVI, and the success of a Revolution
- How they decorated : inspiration from great women of the twentieth century
- How to become an accidental genius
- How to behave badly in Elizabethan England : a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts
- How to behave badly in Elizabethan England : a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts
- How to hide an empire : a history of the greater United States
- How to plan a crusade : religious war in the high Middle Ages
- Hum if you don't know the words
- Hurry up, Houdini!
- I survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
- I survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
- I survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011
- I survived the shark attacks of 1916
- I survived the shark attacks of 1916
- I, Eliza Hamilton
- If you were a kid at the first Thanksgiving
- Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age
- In a different key : the story of autism
- In the hurricane's eye : the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown
- In the hurricane's eye : the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown
- In the presence of evil / Tania Bayard
- In the wake of Lewis and Clark : the expedition and the making of antebellum America
- Indian deeds : land transactions in Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691
- Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man
- Indians on the move : Native American mobility and urbanization in the twentieth century
- Infinitesimal : how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Inside out & back again
- Interplanetary robots : true stories of space exploration
- Into the hands of the soldiers : freedom and chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
- Investigating tombs & mummies
- Iran : a modern history
- Irish cottage : history, culture and design
- Isabel Feeney : Star Reporter
- Island of the blue foxes : disaster and triumph on the world's greatest scientific expedition
- Islandborn
- Jackie Robinson : an integrated life
- Jamestown, the truth revealed
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jane Seymour, the haunted queen : a novel
- Jeff Bezos
- Jonas Salk : a life
- Josiah's journey : chapters on the life of the Rev. Josiah Swett, DD, teacher, preacher, poet in 19th century Vermont
- Just a shot away : peace, love, and tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont
- Kangaroo squadron : American courage in the darkest days of World War II
- Kill Caesar! : assassination in the early Roman Empire
- Killing King : racial terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the plot to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr.
- Killing the SS : the hunt for the worst war criminals in history
- King Zeno
- King of the Dinosaur Hunters : the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology
- Kingdoms of faith : a new history of Islamic Spain
- Korea : where the American century began
- Korea reborn : a grateful nation honors war veterans for 60 years of growth
- Last Hope Island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
- Law & disorder : the chaotic birth of the NYPD
- Lawrence in Arabia : war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East
- Leadership in turbulent times
- Leading lady : Sherry Lansing and the making of a Hollywood groundbreaker
- Legendary sports writers of the golden age : Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W.C. Heinz
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War
- Leprechaun in late winter
- Lexington and Concord : the battle heard round the world
- Liberated spirits : two women who battled over Prohibition
- Lies my teacher told me : everything American history textbooks get wrong
- Lies that comfort and betray
- Life in code : a personal history of technology
- Lifted by the great nothing : a novel
- Lighthouse : an illuminating history of the world's coastal sentinels
- Lisette's list : a novel
- Little : a novel
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment
- London's triumph : merchants, adventurers, and money in Shakespeare's city
- Long shot : the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
- Losing Earth : a recent history
- Lost Maine coastal schooners : from glory days to ghost ships
- Lost and gone forever : a novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad
- Lotharingia : a personal history of Europe's lost country
- Love in a time of hate : the story of Magda and André Trocmé and the village that said no to the Nazis
- Love to everyone
- Love, madness, and scandal : the life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
- Machu Picchu
- Mad boy : an account of Henry Phipps in the War of 1812 : a novel
- Mad scenes and exit arias : the death of the New York City Opera and the future of opera in America
- Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine
- Madness rules the hour : Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war
- Magic ramen
- Making sense of the alt-right
- Making the monster : the science behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Map guide to American migration routes, 1735-1815
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Massachusetts aviation
- Massacre on the Merrimack : Hannah Duston's captivity and revenge in Colonial America
- Meet the Latkes
- Memento mori : a crime novel of the Roman empire
- Men of air : the courage and sacrifice of Bomber Command in World War II
- Mifune. : the last samurai : a documentary about Toshiro Mifune
- Million dollar classics : the world's most expensive cars
- Mind of a killer : an Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery
- Ministers at war : Winston Churchill and his war cabinet
- Miss Burma
- Mistress suffragette
- Mortal republic : how Rome fell into tyranny
- Mr. Trump's wild ride : the thrills, chills, screams, and occasional blackouts of an extraordinary presidency
- Mrs. Sinclair's suitcase
- Mummies : riveting reads for curious kids
- Mummies in the morning
- Murder for the modern girl
- Murder on Millionaires' Row
- Murder on the Serpentine
- Musical theatre : a history
- Mussolini and Hitler : the forging of the fascist alliance
- My adventures with your money : George Graham Rice and the golden age of the con artist
- My brother Sam is dead
- My dear Hamilton : a novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
- My inventions : the autobiography of Nikola Tesla
- NFL's Top 10 Teams
- New England earthquakes : the surprising history of seismic activity in the northeast
- New Hampshire past and present
- Newbury road by road
- News of the world : a novel
- Nobody's girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood
- North of Havana : the untold story of dirty politics, secret diplomacy, and the trial of the Cuban Five
- Now you're talking : human conversation from the Neanderthals to artificial intelligence
- October : the story of the Russian Revolution
- Old scores
- On desperate ground : the Marines at the reservoir, the Korean War's greatest battle
- On her majesty's frightfully secret service
- On this date : from the Pilgrims to today, discovering America one day at a time
- Once a wolf : the science behind our dogs' astonishing genetic evolution
- One goal : a coach, a team, and the game that brought a divided town together
- One nation under God : how corporate America invented Christian America
- One nation under gold : how one precious metal has dominated the American imagination for four centuries
- Only killers and thieves : a novel
- Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you : the shadow cinema of the American '70s
- Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe
- Operation chaos : the Vietnam deserters who fought the CIA, the brainwashers, and themselves
- Oppose any foe : the rise of America's Special Operations Forces
- Our beloved kin : a new history of King Philip's war
- Outlander
- PTL : the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's evangelical empire
- Palimpsest : a history of the written word
- Pandemic 1918 : eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history
- Pandora's boy
- Paradise now
- Paris at war, 1939-1944
- Pass go and collect $200 : the real story of how Monopoly was invented
- Pastrami on rye : an overstuffed history of the Jewish deli
- Patrick Henry : champion of liberty
- Pawnee
- Peculiar ground : a novel
- Period power : a manifesto for the menstrual movement
- Petra
- Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott
- Pink : the history of a punk, pretty, powerful color
- Pirates of New England : ruthless raiders and rotten renegades
- Planck : driven by vision, broken by war
- Pocahontas and the English boys : caught between cultures in early Virginia
- Poldark, Season 3
- Poldark., [Season 1]
- Powers of a girl : 65 Marvel women who punched the sky & changed the universe
- Practical equality : forging justice in a divided nation
- Preserving historic New England : preservation, progressivism, and the remaking of memory
- Presidents of war
- Prohibition : a concise history
- Promise
- Promised land : a novel
- Properties of empire : Indians, colonists, and land speculators on the New England frontier
- Protestants : the faith that made the modern world
- Quarterback : inside the most important position in the National Football League
- Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life
- Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter : a biography of Princess Louise
- Queen's progress : a Kit Marlowe mystery
- Race to Hawaii : the 1927 Dole Derby and the thrilling first flights that opened the Pacific