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The Wright Brothers

By McCullough, David

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson

The Wright Brothers

By David McCullough

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By Mary V Dearborn

Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick

By Amin, Nathen

The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art

By Philippe Costamagna, Frank Wynne

Walt Disney: The Biography

By Gabler, Neal

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

By Nerburn, Kent

Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah (Jewish Lives)

By Biale, David

The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation

By Maimon, Solomon, Melamed, Yitzhak Y., Socher, Abraham, Reitter, Paul, Freudenthal, Gideon

Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (Bill O'Reilly's Killing)

By O'Reilly, Bill, Dugard, Martin

Diana: Closely Guarded Secret

By Wharfe, Ken, Jobson, Robert

Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)

By Northup, Solomon

History's People: Personalities and the Past (CBC Massey Lectures)

By Macmillan, Margaret

Love and War

By Hewitt, James

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

By Annette Gordon-reed, Peter S. Onuf

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

By Dalrymple, WILLIAM

The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

By Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama Martin

Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

By Peter Furtado

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

By Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life (Ackroyd's Brief Lives)

By Ackroyd, Peter

Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs

By Souza, Pete