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The Book Thief
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
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La Adivina
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Conversations With Myself
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On War
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Democracy in America
de Tocqueville, Alexis
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Essays in Zen Buddhism
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Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940
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Hagakure: El Camino del Samurai
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The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior
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Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power And Betrayal in an American Statehouse
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El Culpable Voluntario
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Madness Visible: A Memoir of War
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The Third Reich In Power
Evans, Richard J.
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war. By the middle of 1933, the d...
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The Boleyn Inheritance
Gregory, Philippa
The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wea...
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A River In Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Ishikawa, Masaji
Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his fami...
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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Marton, Kati
In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed author Kati Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in B...
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Mao Zedong
Spence, Jonathan
From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak lead...
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La Era de Trujillo
de Galíndez, Jesús
Cuesta imaginarse que un solo hombre pueda dominar, en forma absoluta y durante 30 años, la vida pública de una nación latinoamericana. No obstante...
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