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Kin: Oprah's Book Club by Jones, Tayari
Kin: Oprah's Book Club
A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage--Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a...
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Ironwood: A Catalina Novel by Connelly, Michael
Ironwood: A Catalina Novel
Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in. Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully...
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Judge Stone by Patterson, James
Judge Stone
Academy Award winning actress Viola Davis and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson's Judge Stone "delivers first-class courtroom drama, small-town excitement, and strong characters all wrapped in a moral dilemma. Tense, readable, and relevant." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) "Talk about a power combo!...
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Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy by Carlisle, Clare
Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy
A lyrical work of philosophy that draws from the work of Spinoza, George Eliot, biographers, memoirists, and more to examine how wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual human lives. Transcendence for Beginners is an innovative book about philosophy and life writing, exploring how...
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Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick by Burke, Caro Claire
Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855--where she must unravel whether this...
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Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick by Burke, Caro Claire
Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805--where she must unravel whether this...
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  • President Wilson's Addresses
    President Wilson's Addresses
    President Wilson's AddressesThese addresses of President Woodrow Wilson represent only the most recent phase of his intellectual activity. They are almost entirely concerned with political affairs, and more specifically with defining Americanism. It will not be forgotten, however, that the life of Mr. Wilson...
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  • Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third
    Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third
    Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the ThirdL'histoire n'est fondee que sur le tomoignage des Auteurs qui nous l'ont transmisse. Il importe donc extremement, pour la scavoir, de bien connoitre quels etoient ces Auteurs. Rien n'est a negliger en ce...
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  • A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II
    A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II
    A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.The original has many inconsistent spellings in all the languages used. A few corrections have been made for obvious typographical errors; they have been noted individually. Footnotes are numbered with the...
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  • The Leading Facts of English History
    The Leading Facts of English History
    The Leading Facts of English HistoryThe attempt is here made to present them in a manner that shall illustrate the law of national growth, in the light thrown upon it by the foremost English historians. The present edition has been carefully revised throughout, and,...
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  • Quer Durch Borneo
    Quer Durch Borneo
    Quer Durch Borneo - Ergebnisse seiner Reisen in den Jahren 1894, 1896-97 und 1898-1900; Zweiter TeilBeim Erscheinen dieses zweiten und letzten Teils meines Reisewerks erlaube ich mir darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass er nach demselben Plan wie der erste angeordnet ist; umfangreichere Ausfhrungen ber...
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  • Quer Durch Borneo
    Quer Durch Borneo
    Quer Durch Borneo - Ergebnisse seiner Reisen in den Jahren 1894, 1896-97 und 1898-1900; Erster TeilBevor noch die Ergebnisse meiner ersten Durchquerung der Insel Borneo unter dem Titel In Centraal Borneo verffentlicht waren, trat ich eine neue Reise an, die zwei Jahre und acht...
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  • Palestiinassa
    Palestiinassa
    Palestiinassa - MatkamuistelmiaKirjassa, jonka tten julkaisen, kertoelen siit matkasta, jonka tein tklisen saksalaisen seurakunnan kirkkoherran, t:ri G. v. Rohden'in, kanssa kevll 1890 Palestiinaan, Syriaan ja Egyptiin. Loppuun olen liittnyt lyhyen kertomuksen olostani muutamissa Euroopan maissa; se ei kyll tarjoa mitn yleisemp hupia, mutta olen...
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  • Bank of the Manhattan Company, Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank
    Bank of the Manhattan Company, Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank
    Bank of the Manhattan Company, Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank"Oceanus, one of the sea Gods, sitting in a reclining posture on a rising ground pouring water from an urn which forms a river and terminates in a lake. On the exergue will be...
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  • Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery
    Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery
    Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery - Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425It is not my intention in this paper to...
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  • The Fifth Leicestershire
    The Fifth Leicestershire
    The Fifth Leicestershire - A Record of the 1/5th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During the War, 1914-1919.No literary merit is claimed for this book. It is intended to be a diary of our progress as a Battalion since mobilisation until the signing of...
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  • The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
    The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
    The Practice and Theory of BolshevismThe Russian Revolution is one of the great heroic events of the world's history. It is natural to compare it to the French Revolution, but it is in fact something of even more importance. It does more to change...
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  • Schetsen uit den Kaukasus
    Schetsen uit den Kaukasus
    Schetsen uit den Kaukasus - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1887Van mijn uitstapje naar de kust te Tiflis teruggekeerd, was ik daar nauwelijks aangekomen, toen ik de uitnoodiging ontving van den bestuurder van het district Oezoergheti, een Armenir met wien ik vroeger kennis gemaakt...
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  • History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) The constitution of the Median empire borrowed from the ancient peoples of the Euphrates: its religion only is peculiar to itselfLegends concerning Zoroaster, his laws; the Avesta and its historyElements contained in...
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  • History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)
    History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)
    History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12) EGYPT DURING THE CRUSADESRISE OF THE OTTOMAN POWERNAPOLEON IN EGYPTTHE RULE OP THE KHEDIVESDISCOVERING THE SOURCE OF THE NILEARCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY. Spread of MuhammedanismSpirit of the CrusadesThe Fati-mite CaliphsSaladins...
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  • History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)
    History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)
    History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) THE ROMAN ADMINISTRATION IN EGYPTTHE RISE OF CHRISTIANITYTHE ARIAN CONTROVERSYTHE GROWTH OF MONASTICISMTHE DECLINE OF ALEXANDRIATHE ARAB INVASION AND THE SPREAD OF MUHAMMEDANISMTHE ARAB DYNASTIES. Augustus remodels the government of...
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  • History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12)
    History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12)
    History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12) Professor Maspero closes his History of Egypt with the conquest of Alexander the Great. There is a sense of dramatic fitness in this selection, for, with the coming of the...
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  • History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12) The upheaval of the entire Eastern world on the accession of SennacheribRevolt of Babylon: return of Merodach-baladan and his efforts to form a coalition against Assyria; the battle of Kish (703 B.C.)Belibni,...
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  • History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) The line of Assyrian kings after Assurirba, and the Babylonian dynasties: the war between Rammn-nirri III. and Shamash-mudammiq; his victories over Babylon; Tukulti-ninip II. (890-885 B.C.)The empire at the accession of Assur-nazir-pal:...
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  • History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12) The Theban necropolis: mummiesThe funeral of a rich Theban: the procession of the offerings and the funerary furniture, the crossing of the Nile, the tomb, the farewell to the dead, the sacrifice,...
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  • History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)
    History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) The constitution of the Egyptian empireThe Grown vassals and their relations with the PharaohThe kings messengersThe allied statesRoyal presents and marriages; the status of foreigners in the royal haremCommerce with Asia, its...
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Explore American, Ancient European, World History and More

History books offer a fascinating journey through time, providing insights into the events and people that shaped our world. Whether you're interested in broad overviews or detailed studies, there are countless history books available to satisfy your curiosity.

For those looking for the best books on history, several titles stand out. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari is a compelling read that covers the span of human history, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the present day. It's widely considered one of the history novel due to its engaging narrative and insightful analysis.

If you're specifically interested in world history books, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond is a must-read. This book explores the factors that influenced the development of civilizations across different continents. Another excellent choice is "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson, which provides a broad and accessible overview of world history.

For those focused on American history, "1776" by David McCullough offers a detailed account of the year of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War. Another notable title is "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which delves into the life and leadership of one of America's greatest presidents. These are often cited as some of the great history books.

Exploring ancient European history can be equally rewarding. "SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome" by Mary Beard provides a thorough and engaging account of the Roman Empire. Another great choice is "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon, a classic work that remains influential in the study of ancient history.

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Q. What are some of the best books on history?

A. Some of the best books on history include "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond, and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. These books offer comprehensive and engaging insights into various aspects of human history.

Q. What are good world history books to read?

A. Good world history books to read include "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond, which examines the factors that shaped different civilizations, and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson, which provides an accessible overview of the history of our world.

Q. What are some recommended books about American history?

A. Recommended books about American history include "1776" by David McCullough, which details the American Revolutionary War, and "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which explores Abraham Lincoln's leadership and presidency. These are often listed among the best American history books.

Q. What are some notable books on ancient European history?

A. Notable books on ancient European history include "SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome" by Mary Beard, which provides a comprehensive look at the Roman Empire, and "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon, a classic work that remains influential in historical studies.

Q. Where can I find the best history books?

A. You can find the best history books at local bookstores, libraries, and online bookstores. Online bookstores often offer a wide selection and customer reviews, making it easier to choose the right book. Searching for best selling books and best books to read can also help you find highly recommended titles.

Q. What are some great history books to start with for beginners?

A. For beginners, great history books include "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari for a broad overview of human history, and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson for an accessible introduction to various historical topics. These books are engaging and informative, making them ideal starting points for those new to history reading.

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