Biographical Sketches
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Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr (2008-10-28)
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Kris Waldherr
3.77 avg rating — 2,282 ratings 6. 
Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs
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Carolly Erickson
3.94 avg rating — 965 ratings 7. 
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
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Will Cuppy
3.92 avg rating — 2,611 ratings 
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings 3.64 avg rating — 7,016 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Denise Kiernan
3.91 avg rating — 1,295 ratings 14. 
The Concise Guide to Kings and Queens: A Thousand Years of European Monarchy
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Peter Gibson
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 15. 
Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels ~ and What the Neighbors Thought
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Kathleen Krull
3.93 avg rating — 588 ratings 16. 
Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans
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Ken Smith
4.17 avg rating — 70 ratings 17. 
The Emperor of the United States of America & Other Magnificent British Eccentrics 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries
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Jan Bondeson
3.60 avg rating — 169 ratings 21. 
Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era
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Autumn Stephens
3.66 avg rating — 164 ratings 21. 
Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous 3.73 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure
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John Lloyd
3.92 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 24. 
Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors
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Elizabeth Lunday
3.88 avg rating — 1,478 ratings 
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Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States
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Cormac O'Brien
3.72 avg rating — 129 ratings 26. 
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
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Paul Collins
3.97 avg rating — 807 ratings 28. 
This Saint Will Change Your Life: 300 Heavenly Allies for Architects, Athletes, Bloggers, Brides, Librarians, Murderers, Whales, Widows, and You really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings
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4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
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Vicki León
3.49 avg rating — 635 ratings 
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The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Womens' Stories
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Amy Licence
4.06 avg rating — 346 ratings 34. 
Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust
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Jeffrey Shandler
4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings 34. 
Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
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Annelie Rozeboom
3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings 34. 
John Lennon: In Their Own Write, A Loving Tribute From His Friends and Fans
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Judith Furedi
3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings 34. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings 34. 
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers (6) (Women of Action)
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Anna M. Lewis
3.69 avg rating — 93 ratings 34. 
A Corpse in the well: Translations from modern Marathi Dalit autobiographies
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Arjun Dangle
4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings 34. 
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
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Phillip Barlag
3.89 avg rating — 289 ratings 
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Tarnished Scalpels: The Court-Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons
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Thomas P. Lowry
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War
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Steve Sheinkin
4.23 avg rating — 933 ratings 47. 
Tarnished Eagles: The Court-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels
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Thomas P. Lowry
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 47.
Fifty famous Americans (Biography index reprint series)
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Ward Griffith
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Men Who Lost the Presidency: Profiles of the 29 Men Who Lost Elections to Be President of the United States
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Alva C. Goldberg
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Ambassadors of God: Selected Obituaries from The Catholic Worker really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Missouri Legends: Famous People from the Show Me State
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John W. Brown
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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What Happened to Their Kids: Children of the Rich and Famous
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Malcolm Forbes
3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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They Went That-A-Way: How the Famous, the Infamous, and the Great Died
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Malcolm Forbes
3.79 avg rating — 214 ratings 60. 
Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
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Mackenzi Lee
4.17 avg rating — 4,027 ratings 62. 
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
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Sam Maggs
3.98 avg rating — 2,136 ratings 63. 
Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes In Extraordinary Times
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Amy Goodman
4.04 avg rating — 281 ratings 64. 
Petticoats, Patriots, and Partition: Stories of Ireland and Those Who Made It
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Shannon Haire
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise Edition, Revised and Updated
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Alban Butler
4.20 avg rating — 637 ratings 69. 
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected
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Jan Bondeson
3.77 avg rating — 462 ratings 69. 
The Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption of the Bodies of Various Catholic Saints and Beati 4.12 avg rating — 459 ratings
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No Boundaries: 25 Women Explorers and Scientists Share Adventures, Inspiration, and Advice
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Gabby Salazar
4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings 72. 
An Illustrated History of Saints and Sainthood: An exploration of the lives and works of Christian saints and their place in today's church, shown in 200 images
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Tessa Paul
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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The American Catholic Almanac: A Daily Reader of Patriots, Saints, Rogues, and Ordinary People Who Changed the United States
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Brian Burch
4.26 avg rating — 136 ratings 
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The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages: Queens, Saints, and Viking Slayers, From Empress Theodora to Elizabeth of Tudor
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Melissa Rank
3.43 avg rating — 215 ratings 77. 
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
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Darby Penney
3.69 avg rating — 3,976 ratings 
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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Katie Hickman
3.74 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 82. 
Scarlet Women: The Scandalous Lives of Courtesans, Concubines, and Royal Mistresses
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Ian Graham
3.26 avg rating — 323 ratings 83. 
Golden Age Ladies: Women Who Shaped the Courts of Francis I and Henry VIII really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
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Philippa Jones
3.73 avg rating — 2,761 ratings 85. 
The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors
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Stuart Lutz
3.69 avg rating — 100 ratings 85. 
Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were
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J.F. Andrews
4.19 avg rating — 571 ratings 
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The Queen's Sisters: The Lives of the Sisters of Elizabeth Woodville
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Sarah J. Hodder
3.54 avg rating — 89 ratings 89. 
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
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Julia P. Gelardi
4.06 avg rating — 2,618 ratings 90. 
Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens 3.80 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Warrior Queens: True Stories of Six Ancient Rebels Who Slayed History 3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Rembrandt's Monkey: And Other Tales from the Secret Lives of the Great Artists
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Alexandra Connor
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Kings & Queens of Great Britain: Every Question Answered
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David Soud
4.06 avg rating — 125 ratings 98. 
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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Sarah Gristwood
4.02 avg rating — 1,593 ratings 99. 
How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
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Daniel O'Brien
4.11 avg rating — 2,629 ratings 99. 