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BookHampton's staff is an eclectic bunch. We're writers. poets, photographers, chefs, playwrights, artists, linguists, teachers, knitters, activists — and above all, avid readers.

Here are our current or perennial favorites in the History genre (both nonfiction and fiction) — and if you order two books from this list, shipping is FREE! —

The Nature of Things (Paperback)

By A. E. Stallings, Richard Jenkyns

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780140447965
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Classics, 1/2008

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A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome (Paperback)

By Alberto Angela, Gregory Conti

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781933372716
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Europa Editions, 5/2009

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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (Paperback)

By Jon Meacham

$16.95

ISBN-13: 9780812972825
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 10/2004

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A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)

By John Julius Norwich

$19.00

ISBN-13: 9780679772699
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Published: Vintage, 12/1998

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The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes (Hardcover)

By Scott Wallace

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780307462961
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Published: Crown, 10/2011

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)

By B. Alison Weir, Alison Weir

$16.95

ISBN-13: 9780802136831
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Published: Grove Press, 3/2000

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Hardcover)

By Stephen J. Greenblatt

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9780393064476
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/2011

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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (Paperback)

By Sebastian Faulks

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780679776819
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Published: Vintage, 6/1997

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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (Hardcover)

By Richard Rhodes

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9780385534383
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Published: Doubleday, 11/2011

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I Served the King of England (Paperback)

By Bohumil Hrabal, Paul Wilson

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780811216876
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 5/2007

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)

By Erik Larson

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780307408846
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Published: Crown, 5/2011

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The Known World (Paperback)

By Edward P. Jones

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780060557553
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Published: Amistad, 6/2004

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Enemy at the Gates (movie tie-in): The Battle for Stalingrad (Paperback)

By William Craig

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780142000007
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2/2001

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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Paperback)

By H.W. Brands

$17.95

ISBN-13: 9780307386779
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Published: Anchor, 10/2011

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Cold Mountain (Paperback)

By Charles Frazier

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780802142849
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Published: Grove Press, 9/2006

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)

By Simon Winchester

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9780060839789
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Published: Harper Perennial, 7/2005

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