Category: Historical Nonfiction
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Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites by Monica Eng and David Hammond
Made in Chicago provides locals and visitors alike with loving profiles of a great food city’s defining dishes.
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A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick, and Surgery by Mary Kettelby
Published in the 18th century.
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Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival by Amin Saikal
An in-depth look into Afghanistan.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Franklin wrote his autobiography in the form of an extended letter to his son. While recording the events of his life, he adds instructions for good living which makes this work America’s first “How to Succeed” book.
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The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss and Neil Howe
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future.”–USA Weekend
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Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World by Eliza Reid
Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman—but why?
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One Hundred Saturdays by Michael Frank
Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award.
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jähner
How did Germany recover after WWII?
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Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
Synopsis A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known…