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    History Books - Updated 12/28/24

    1

    The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

    by Sharon McMahon (Author)
    Thesis
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    2

    Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

    by Bill O'Reilly (Author) Martin Dugard (Author)
    St. Martin's Press
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    3

    The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

    by Hampton Sides (Author)
    Doubleday Books
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    4

    Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control

    by Mark Harmon (Author) Leon Carroll (Author)
    Harper Select
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    5

    Ghosts of Honolulu: 

    by Mark Harmon (Author) Leon Carroll (With)
    Harper Select
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    6

    Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    by Patrick Radden Keefe (Author)
                    Vintage
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    7

    Countdown 1960: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 312 Days That Changed America's Politics Forever

    by Chris Wallace (Author) Mitch Weiss (With)
    Dutton 
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    8

    Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

    by Charles King (Author)
    Doubleday Books
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    9

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    by Yuval Noah Harari (Author)
    Harper Perennial
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    10

    Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

    by Dan Jones (Author)
    Viking
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