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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 (Katya Hoyer)
Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America (Michael Benson)
The Clusterf#ck Crusade: The Diversion, Intrigue, and Disastrous Mishandling of the Fourth Crusade (Patrick Hotle)
The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land (Sally Denton)
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler (David Kertzer)
The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to American Presidents (David Priess)
Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park (Andy Mulvihill)
Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers (Jared Frederick)
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution (Eric Jay Dolin)
Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power (Marc Wortman)
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History (Ian Morris)
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (Melissa Homestead)
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Lindsey Fitzharris)
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (Orville Vernon Burton)
America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger (Isaac Stone Fish)
Scandalous Women Of The Old West: Women Who Dared To Be Different (Donna Pedace)
George Washington's Hair: How Early Americans Remembered the Founders (Keith Beutler)
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 (Richard Overy)
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution (H.W. Brands)
The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865 (Scott Heerman)
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird (Joshua Hammer)
Mountain Dew: The History, The Hatfield and McCoy Feud Over the Braggin' Rights to Mountain Dew (Dick Bridgforth)
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (Debby Applegate)
Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (Peter Fritzsche)
We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century (Ronald Gruner)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Kate Moore)
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Woody Holton)
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II (Sean McKeekin)
American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation (Seth David Radwell)
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Mark Lawrence Schrad)
The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World (Nathan Gorenstein)
Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers (Doug J. Swanson)
Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's Forgotten Son (A.K. Fielding)
American Comics: A History (Jeremy Dauber)
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown (Steve Sheinkin)
The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict (Elbridge A. Colby)
The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (Timothy Larsen)
Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory (Robert E. May)
Back From the Future: A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told (Brad Gilmore)
The Antichrist: A New Biography (Philip C. Almond)
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (Benjamin Park)
The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story (Cara Robertson)
Eloise Asylum: The History, the Humanity and the Haunts (Cassandra St. Croix)
The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War (J.L. Bell)
Robert E. Lee: A Life (Allen Guelzo)
The Chicago Cub Shot For Love: A Showgirl’s Crime of Passion and the 1932 World Series (Jack Bales)
Memories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting (Curt Smith)
Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorean (Hillel Levin)
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War (Jeff Shesol)
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books (Jess McHugh)
Destination Jerusalem: The Legendary Tale of the First Crusade (Patrick Hotle)
The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War (Bing West)
A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible (Kristin Swenson)
At the Sands: The Casino That Shaped Classic Las Vegas, Brought the Rat Pack Together, and Went Out With a Bang (David Schwartz)
Tales from the Gem City #10 - Quincy the City of Refuge (Chuck Scholz)
1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK (David Krell)
The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the Founding Fathers to Fake News (Harold Holzer)
When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland's Freedom (Christopher Klein)
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II (Sarah Rose)
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Eric Jay Dolin)
Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion (Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock)
Tales from the Gem City #9 - The Lattice Fries Capital of the World (Chuck Scholz)
Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man: The Early Years in Congress, 1844-1850 (Reg Ankrom)
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Mark Pendergrast)
Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln (Ed Achorn)
John C. Calhoun: American Heretic (Robert Elder)
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (Menachem Kaiser)
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus (Barry Powell)
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria (Annie Gray)
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation (Peter Cozzens)
ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History (Jennifer Dasal)
The Final Campaign of the War from Petersburg to Appomattox in General Grant's Own Words (Curt Fields)
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates (Eric Jay Dolin)
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich (Robert Gervarth)
The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi (Timothy B. Smith)
Presidential Spirits: A Novel (Dan Coonan)
Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer (Bill Knoedelseder)
The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age (John Woolf)
Mr. Rickey's Redbirds: Baseball, Beer, Scandals & Celebrations in St. Louis (Mike Mitchell)
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause (Ty Seidule)
The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death (Brian Dirck)
The University of Notre Dame: A History (Father Thomas Blantz)
JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia (Greg Poulgrain)
Tales from the Gem City #8 - Baseball in the Gem City (Chuck Scholz)
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator (Timothy Winegard)
The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer the Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb (James Kunetka)
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (Ronald C. White)
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s (Andy Greene)
Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original (Mitchell Nathanson)
Going the Distance: The Life and Works of W.P. Kinsella (William Steele)
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Tom Clavin)
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership that Defined a Presidency (Kathryn Smith)
From the Miracle Mets to the Bad Boys of Baseball: The New York Mets in Popular Culture (David Krell)
Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK and Castro (Thomas Maier)
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How that Shaped Our Country (Thomas E. Ricks)
Christmas: A Biography (Judith Flanders)
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome (Douglas Boin)
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Fredrik Logevall)
Tales from the Gem City #7 - Father Augustus Tolton
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy: The Japanese Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Mark Roehrs)