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Earmuffs for Everyone! How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs by Meghan McCarthy (2015)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on August 28, 2015 tagged history • picture book
Eating with Uncle Sam: Recipes and Historical Bites from the National Archives by Patty Reinert Mason (2011)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on June 17, 2016 tagged cookbook • history
The Empire of Death A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris (2011)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on May 4, 2012 tagged coffee table book • history
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer (2012)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by saracole on June 26, 2015 tagged history • nonfiction
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming (2014)
Reviewed by wally on February 19, 2016 tagged history
Fenway 1912 The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year by Glenn Stout (2011)
Reviewed by flemtastic on October 28, 2011 tagged history • nonfiction
Final Victory FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign by Stanley Weintraub (2012)
Reviewed by billba on May 4, 2012 tagged history • nonfiction
The Fishing Fleet Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy (2014)
Reviewed by flemtastic on February 28, 2014 tagged history • romance
During the Raj, many British women made the difficult trip to India to find marriageable men.
Flow A Cultural History Of Menstruation by Elissa Stein, Susan Kim (2009)
Reviewed by darcy on February 22, 2013 tagged history
A cultural history of menstruation including photos of odd and historical feminine hygiene products.
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell (2014)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on April 3, 2015 tagged history
Frozen Secrets Antarctica Revealed by Sally M. Walker (2010)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on February 25, 2011 tagged history • science
Fu-go The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America by Ross Coen (2014)
Reviewed by flemtastic on October 10, 2014 tagged history
During WWII, the Japanese army launched over 9,000 balloons across the Pacific to drop bombs on the U.S.
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (2012)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by sarahhunt on June 3, 2016 tagged biography • history
Genius and Heroin The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages by Michael Largo (2008)
Reviewed by flemtastic on November 5, 2010 tagged essays • history • nonfiction
Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th-Century Colonial Homestead by Sally M. Walker (2014)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on January 15, 2016 tagged history
Gladiator The Roman Fighter's [Unofficial] Manual by Philip Matyszak (2011)
Reviewed by theo on June 22, 2012 tagged history • nonfiction
The Good, The Bad and the Barbie A Doll’s History and Her Impact on Us by Tanya Lee Stone (2010)
Reviewed by flemtastic on November 5, 2010 tagged history • nonfiction
Government Issue Comics for the People, 1940s - 2000s by Richard L. Graham (2011)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on August 17, 2012 tagged anthology • graphic novel • history • nonfiction
Grand Ambition by G. Bruce Knecht (2013)
Reviewed by flemtastic on March 8, 2013 tagged history
The story of the ultra-posh yacht Lady Linda, from conception to launch.
A Grand Complication The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch by Stacy Perman (2013)
Reviewed by flemtastic on March 8, 2013 tagged history
Two prominent, rich men in the early 1900s competed to have the most complicated mechanical watch.
The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown (2013)
Reviewed by craigseasholes on March 21, 2014 tagged graphic novel • history
A family tries to survive the Black Sunday Monster Dust Storm on April 14, 1935.
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer (2011)
Reviewed by billba on September 9, 2011 tagged history • nonfiction
A Great Idea at the Time The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books by Alex Beam (2008)
Reviewed by davidtomashek on June 3, 2011 tagged history • literary
Great Maps by Jerry Brotton (2014)
Reviewed by wally on June 5, 2015 tagged art • coffee table book • history
The Great Pearl Heist London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby (2012)
Reviewed by flemtastic on February 8, 2013 tagged history • mystery
The world’s greatest thief tries to fence a fifty-pearl necklace before Scotland Yard can bring him to justice.
Green River Killer A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen, Jonathan Case (2011)
Reviewed by flemtastic on November 11, 2011 tagged graphic novel • history • mystery • thriller
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis (2012)
Reviewed by robert on August 7, 2015 tagged history
The Gun by C.J. Chivers (2010)
Reviewed by flemtastic on April 22, 2011 tagged history • literary • nonfiction
Happy Valley (Battlefields Volume 4) by Garth Ennis, PJ Holden (2010)
Reviewed by geneambaum on January 7, 2011 tagged graphic novel • historical fiction • history
Hetalia: Axis Powers Volume 1 by Hidekaz Himaruya, Monica Seya Chin, Clint Bickham (2010)
Reviewed by davidtomashek on February 4, 2011 tagged graphic novel • history
Personifications of the world’s nations act out funny, exaggerated version of events at the eve of WWII.
High Society The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture by Mike Jay (2010)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on July 29, 2011 tagged history • nonfiction
The Hiltons The True Story of An American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli (2014)
Reviewed by flemtastic on May 9, 2014 tagged biography • history
The story of hotel mogul Conrad Hilton and his (sometimes) out-of-control family.
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1970s - 1981 by Ed Piskor (2013)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on May 1, 2015 tagged art • graphic novel • history
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 2: 1981 - 1983 by Ed Piskor (2014)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on May 1, 2015 tagged art • graphic novel • history
A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps by Chris West (2013)
Reviewed by billba on November 15, 2013 tagged history
How postage stamps created the first global communication network, powering the British empire.
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (2006)
Reviewed by mattdiamond on June 22, 2012 tagged history
Hollywood Hellraisers The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson by Robert Sellers (2010)
Reviewed by billba on July 16, 2010 tagged biography • history
How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein (2008)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by billba on June 8, 2008 tagged history
How to Survive the Titanic The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson (2011)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by billba on October 14, 2011 tagged history • nonfiction
I'll Have What She's Having My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Rebecca Harrington (2015)
Reviewed by flemtastic on October 17, 2014 tagged cookbook • history
Rebecca Harrington tries out the diets of historic figures and movie stars.
The Inheritor's Powder A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science by Sandra Hempel (2013)
Reviewed by flemtastic on August 16, 2013 tagged history • mystery • science
Inside Scientology The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (2011)
Reviewed by flemtastic on January 13, 2012 tagged history
In the President’s Secret Service Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler (2010)
Reviewed by flemtastic on February 18, 2011 tagged history • nonfiction
Invincible Microbe Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy, Alison Blank (2012)
Reviewed by flemtastic on August 9, 2013 tagged history • science
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad by Martin W. Sandler (2015)
Reviewed by flemtastic on January 15, 2016 tagged history
An Irreverent Curiosity In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town by David Farley (2009)
Reviewed by flemtastic on April 13, 2012 tagged history • nonfiction
I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets by Fletcher Hanks, Paul Karasik (2007)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on May 7, 2010 tagged graphic novel • history • science fiction • superhero
It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright (2015)
Reviewed by emilyreads on February 12, 2016 tagged history • romance
I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes, Bryan Collier (2012)
Reviewed by billba on September 14, 2012 tagged biography • history • picture book • poetry
Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool by Brian Ashcraft, Shoko Ueda (2010)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on December 10, 2010 tagged history • nonfiction
Japanese schoolgirls are a powerful economic force both in Japan and around the world.