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Caroline

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29 books

African American History

The Promised Land
The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
The Barn
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero

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4 books

African History

A Training School for Elephants
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
Uncommon Wealth
King Leopold's Ghost

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125 books

American Civil War

Slaves in the Family
Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

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522 books

American History

Slaves in the Family
The Gentle Tamers
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
The Last Campaign
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America

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73 books

Ancient History

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Odysseus: A Life
Alexander the Great
The Classical World
Rome And Jerusalem: The Clash Of Ancient Civilizations
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Helen of Troy

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193 books

Biography

Walt Disney: The Biography
Shakespeare: The Biography
Odysseus: A Life
Richard III: The Maligned King
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

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249 books

British History

Fighter Boys
Ghost Hunters
Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
Boy Soldiers of the Great War: Their Own Stories for the First Time
The Great War and modern memory

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12 books

Colonial History

Uncommon Wealth
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War
The British in India: A Social History of the Raj

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2 books

Did Not Finish

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6 books

Dinosaurs

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Dinosaur Hunters
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Fossil Legends of the First Americans
The Monster's Bones
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

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198 books

English History

Richard III: The Maligned King
Witchfinders
Shakespeare: The Biography
Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada

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39 books

Fantasy

The Death of King Arthur
Lady of Avalon
The Forest House
The Mists of Avalon
The Book of Lost Things
Cirque Du Soleil
Stardust

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20 books

Favorites

Schindler's List
A Prayer For Owen Meany
The Mists of Avalon
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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23 books

French History

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944
Death in the City of Light
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

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11 books

Historical Fiction

Here Be Dragons
Falls the Shadow
Fire from Heaven
The Persian Boy
Funeral Games
Lionheart
A Natural History of Dragons

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46 books

Kennedy Family

Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
The Last Campaign
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
JFK: Reckless Youth
The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963
The Kennedys at war, 1937-1945

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115 books

Medieval History

Richard III: The Maligned King
Richard the Third
Lionheart and Lackland
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
1415: Henry V's Year of Glory

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11 books

Mythology

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
The Song of Achilles
Stations of the Sun
Monster of God
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

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30 books

Native American History

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
1493
Blood and Thunder
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians

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11 books

Nature Wildlife

Monster of God
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures

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4 books

Owned

Henry VIII: The King and His Court
Jesse James
Down and Dirty Pictures
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-'N'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

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14 books

Paranormal

A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House
Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof
The Haunting of Alma Fielding
The Ghost

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32 books

Politics

God is back
Unnatural Selection
Two swords
Asking for It
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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49 books

Popular Culture

Harry, a History
Walt Disney: The Biography
DisneyWar
Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy

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16 books

Popular Science

Leaving Orbit
The Unfit Heiress
Food Isn’t Medicine: Challenge Nutrib*llocks & Escape the Diet Trap
Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof
Islands of Abandonment
The Monster's Bones
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