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Selected Works (1,702 total)

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Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
Chambers Biographical Dictionary
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists
The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure
Men in Dark Times
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History
Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
Six Men
Heroes for All Times: A Nonfiction Companion to High Time for Heroes
Where Are They Buried?: How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy
Van Loon's Lives
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
My First Book of Biographies
How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage
Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World without Killing Dragons (The Dare to Be Different Series)
Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
Time: Great People of the 20th Century
Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
They Went That-a-Way
Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them
History's People: Personalities and the Past (CBC Massey Lectures)
The Rescuers: Kids Who Risked Everything to Save Others
Personal impressions
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
The Who Was? History of the World
I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure
A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses
They Lost Their Heads!: What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts
People of the Century: One Hundred Men And Women Who Shaped The Last One Hundred Years
Tales Of Famous Heroes
Booknotes : Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen
History's Monsters: 101 Villains from Vlad the Impaler to Adolf Hitler
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 08: Roads to Greatness
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders
Armed With Courage
Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century
Memories of the Great and the Good
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
Variety of Men
It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure
Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure

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