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TitleAsNotedInCreator
TitleAsNotedInCreator
A Beautiful Mind (book) Sylvia Nasar
A Bride Goes West (book) Helena Huntington Smith
A Brief History of Time (book) Stephen Hawking
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (book) Neil Sheehan
A Century of Dishonor (book) Helen Hunt Jackson
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War (book) Susan Griffin
A Constitutional History of the United States (book) Andrew C McLaughlin
A Daughter of the Middle Border (book) Hamlin Garland
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America (book) Jacqueline Jones
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (book) Geoffrey C Ward
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (book) Dave Eggers
A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945 (book) Frida Scheps Weinstein
A History of American Magazines (book) Frank Luther Mott
A History of the American People Paul Johnson
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (book) James Ford Rhodes
A History of the United States (book) Edward Channing
A Message to Garcia (essay) Elbert Hubbard
A Midwife's Tale (book) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (book) Steven Hahn
A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 (book) David Fromkin
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E Lawrence (book) John E Mack
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (book) Samantha Power
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England (book) Lyle Koehler
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped The World (book) William J Bernstein
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Ben Macintyre
A Stillness at Appomattox (book) Bruce Catton
A Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
A Thousand Days (book) Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
A Time of Gifts (book) Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs (book) Theodore Draper
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (book) Mary Wollstonecraft
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (book) Carl Sandburg
Across the Wide Missouri (book) Bernard Devoto
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (book) Samuel Eliot Morison
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (book) Evan Osnos
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy (book) Ben Macintyre
Alfred C Kinsey: A Public-Private Life (book) James H Jones
Alfred I Du Pont: The Man and His Family (book) Joseph Frazier Wall
All the President's Men (book) Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (book) Kenneth M Stampp
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (book) Michael W Kauffman
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic (book) Victoria Johnson
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 (book) Lawrence A Cremin
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970 (book) Thomas P Hughes
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (book) Jon Meacham
American Notes
Charles Dickens
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer (book) Kai Bird Martin J Sherwin
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (book) Eliza Griswold
An Account of Corsica (book)
James Boswell
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (book) Rick Atkinson
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America (book) Nick Bunker
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (book) Jimmy Carter
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (book) Chinua Achebe
And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (book) Dale Maharidge
Andrew Carnegie (book) David Nasaw
Andrew Jackson, 2 Volumes (book) Marquis James
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (book) Frank McCourt
Annals of the Former World (book) John McPhee
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (book) Richard Hofstadter
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (book) David K Shipler
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (book) Kevin Boyle
Arcanum 17 Andre Breton
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work (book) Hayden Herrera
Art and Life in America (book) Oliver W Larkin
Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris (book) Richard Kluger
Assembling California (book) John McPhee
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life (book) Francine du Plessix Gray
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (book) Philip Dray
Bad Blood (book) Lorna Sage
Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagles Nest
Stephen E Ambrose
Banks and Politics in America (book) Bray Hammond
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (book) William Finnegan
Barrett Wendell and His Letters (book) Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (writer)
Basin and Range (book) John McPhee
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (book) James M McPherson
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (book) David J Garrow
Beautiful Swimmers (book) William W Warner
Becoming William James (book) Howard M Feinstein
Been in the Storm So Long (book) Leon F Litwack
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (book) Lewis Lockwood
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (book) Katherine Boo
Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood (book)
William J Mann
Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre
Being Bernard Berenson (book) Meryle Secrest
Beneath a Ruthless Sun (book) Gilbert King
Benjamin Franklin (book) Carl Van Doren
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed (book) William Cabell Bruce
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (book) Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (book) Ernest Samuels
Between the World and Me (book) Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (book) Herbert Feis
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America (book) J Anthony Lukas
Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just (book) Kenneth Manning
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (book) Joby Warrick
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (book) Rebecca West
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West (book) Hampton Sides
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (book) Heather Ann Thompson
Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
James L Swanson
Booker T Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (book) Louis R Harlan
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero (book) Kate Clifford Larson
Boy Life on the Prairie (book)
Hamlin Garland
Broken Vessels (book) Andre Dubus II
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It (book) Larrie D Ferreiro
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (book)
Cape Cod (Thoreau book)
Henry David Thoreau
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (book) Diane McWhorter
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (book) Gerald Posner
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (book) Thomas Byrne Edsall Mary D Edsall
Chaos: Making a New Science (book) James Gleick
Charles Evans Hughes, 2 volumes (book) Merlo J Pusey
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (book) David Herbert Donald
Charles W Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1901 (book) Henry James III
Cheever: A Life (book) Blake Bailey
Cheyenne Autumn (book)
Mari Sandoz
Children of Crisis, Volume 1: A Study of Courage and Fear (book) Robert Coles
Children of Crisis, Volume 2: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers (book) Robert Coles
Children of Crisis, Volume 3: The South Goes North (book) Robert Coles
Children of Crisis, Volume 4: Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians (book) Robert Coles
Children of Crisis, Volume 5: Privileged Ones: The Well-Off and the Rich in America (book) Robert Coles
China Along the Yellow River (book)
China Men (book) Maxine Hong Kingston
Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi
Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 (book) Ted Morgan
Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst (book) William Andrew Swanberg
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 - May 7, 1945
Stephen E Ambrose
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US History (book) Rogers Smith
Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition (book) W Fitzhugh Brundage
Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides (book) Reynolds Price
Clear Springs: A Memoir (book) Bobbie Ann Mason
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (book) Timothy Ferris
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety (book) Eric Matthew Schlosser
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (book) J Anthony Lukas
Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals
Stephen E Ambrose
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (book) Stephanie McCurry
Confessions (Rousseau) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 and 2 (book) Michael O'Brien
Conversations With the Enemy (book) Winston Groom Duncan Spencer
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Stephen E Ambrose
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Mari Sandoz
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (book) Pete Earley
Crime and Punishment in America (book) Elliott Currie
Crime and Punishment in American History (book) Lawrence M Friedman
Crimes' Paradise The Authentic Inside-Story of the Urschel Kidnapping (book)
Critique of Pure Reason (book)
Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (book) Forrest Wilson
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (book) T J Stiles
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
Stephen E Ambrose
Danger and Survival (book) McGeorge Bundy
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea (book)
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (book) Richard Rhodes
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life (book) Daniel C Dennett
Dawn to the West (book) Donald Keene
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (essays) Richard Rodriguez
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews (book) Leonard S Baker
de Kooning: An American Master (book) Mark Stevens Annalyn Swan
De Profundis (book) Oscar Wilde
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Erik Larson
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (book) J William Harris
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (book) Gilbert King
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (book)
Directions for Cookery (Leslie cookbook) Eliza Leslie
Discipline and Punish (book) Michel Foucault
Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip (book)
Jeannette Walls
Dispatches (book) Michael Herr
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 (book) Joseph Frank
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 (book) Joseph Frank
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (book) Joseph Frank
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (book) Joseph Frank
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (book) Joseph Frank
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies Ben Macintyre
Drawings of the Florentine Painters (book)
Bernard Berenson
Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point
Stephen E Ambrose
Economy and Society (book)
Ecrits Jacques Lacan
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston (book) Michael J Rawson
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (book) John Matteson
Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger (book)
William J Mann
Edith Wharton: A Biography (book) R W B Lewis
Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 (book) David J Mays
Eichmann in Jerusalem (book) Hannah Arendt
Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe
Stephen E Ambrose
Eisenhower Volume 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952
Stephen E Ambrose
Eisenhower Volume 2: The President
Stephen E Ambrose
Eisenhower: At War, 19431945 (book) David Eisenhower
Eisenhower: Soldier and President
Stephen E Ambrose
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life (book) Louise Aronson
Eleanor and Franklin (book) Joseph P Lash
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (book) Fredrik Logevall
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (book) John W Dower
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (book) Kerby A Miller
Eminent Victorians (book)
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (book) Sven Beckert
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (book) Gordon S Wood
Empire of the Summer Moon (book) S C Gwynne
Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (book) Anne Farrar Hyde
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Bill Dedman
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (book) Elizabeth A Fenn
Endless Enemies (book) Jonathan Kwitny
Essays (Montaigne book)
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (book) Emily Post
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (book) Matthew Desmond
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (book) William H Goetzmann
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (book) Daniel K Richter
Fame and Folly (book) Cynthia Ozick
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (book) Kim Phillips-Fein
Fearless Purpose: Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons (book) Emily Elizabeth Parsons
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (book) Thomas E Ricks
Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture (book) Carl E Schorske
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (book) Frances FitzGerald
For President Kennedy: An Epilogue (essay) Theodore H White Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
Ben Macintyre
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (book) Greg Grandin
Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
Ben Macintyre
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow (book) Margaret Clapp
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet (book) Lewis B Puller
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (book) Joseph J Ellis
Founding Mothers and Fathers (book) Mary Beth Norton
Frederick Douglass (book) William S McFeely
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (book) David W Blight
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (book) David M Kennedy
Freud: A Life For Our Time (book) Peter Gay
From Immigrant to Inventor (book) Mihajlo I Pupin
Fuhrer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi (book)
Ingo Hasselbach Tom Reiss
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (book)
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (book)