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Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush

By Steve Boggan

A Rumor Of War

By Philip Caputo

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

By France, David

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

By Husain Haqqani

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War

By Hastings, Max

50 THINGS YOU didn't KNOW ABOUT ANGUILLA

By Blondel Cluff, David Wells

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

By Eggers, Dave

The Battle for Iwo Jima, 1945

By Derrick Wright

Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers and Led His Men to Safety

By Picciotto, FDNY Battalion Commander Richard 'Pitch'

WITH EAGLE TAIL

Phoenix Squadron: HMS Ark Royal, Britain's last Topguns and the untold story of their most dramatic mission

By White, Rowland

Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World

By Brian M. Fagan

Renegade: The Making of Barack Obama

By Richard Wolffe

Double Down

By John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By Maria A Trapp

Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

By James Belich (Professor of History, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington)

Hard Choices

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

By Hugh Thomas

The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them

By Linda Yueh