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This years best books were full of heartfelt romances, weary travels, and through-provoking questions about our society.
(Take a look at what to getteens,pop culture obsessives, and those who lovehuge epics.)
Next up, heres what to get for history buffs.
Here, the prolific Smiley proves that the form has not dulled one bit.
Wulf reconstructs both his outsized life and the influence he had on contemporaries like Charles Darwin.
The tense auctions and high-money gambles detailed here had massive effects on Shakespeare scholarship that continue to this day.
In fact, the real Oregon Trail was the main pipeline of the westward migration that changed America forever.
