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Wonder Drug : The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Vanderbes, JenniferRandom House Publishing Group 2023“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keef...
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The Twilight World : A Novel
Herzog, WernerPenguin Publishing Group 2022The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. In his first novel, Herzog tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island...
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Our Biggest Experiment : An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
Bell, AliceCatapult 2021Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defini...
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Cyber Privacy : Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
Doss, April FalconBenBella Books 2020"Chilling, eye-opening, and timely, Cyber Privacy makes a strong case for the urgent need to reform the laws and policies that protect our personal data. If your reaction to that s...
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The Daughters of Yalta : The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Katz, Catherine GraceHarperAudio 2020 UnabridgedThe untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful r...
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How to Survive a Plague : The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
France, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2016One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Decade A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the gra...
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The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Abramsky, SashaNew York Review Books 2015Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast...
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Dance of the Reptiles : Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns
Hiaasen, CarlKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2014NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of the best Miami Herald columns from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted r...
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Arik : The Life of Ariel Sharon
Landau, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2014From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most important Israeli political and military leader of the last forty y...
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Between Man and Beast : An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm
Reel, MonteKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, D...
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National Geographic Tales of the Weird : Unbelievable True Stories
Braun, DavidDisney Book Group 2012When a farmer in Spain captured a two-headed snake in 2002, scientists wanted to study it. When National Geographic Daily News published a story about the discovery, people wanted...
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Into the Fire : A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Meyer, Dakota; West, BingRandom House Publishing Group 2012“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurg...
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A Good Year to Die : The Story of the Great Sioux War
Robinson, Charles M.Random House Publishing Group 2012This is the dramatic story of the most crucial year in the history of the American West, 1876, when the wars between the United States Government and the Indian Nations reached a p...
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Outlaw Marriages : The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Streitmatter, RodgerBeacon Press 2012Celebrate LGBTQIA+ history with the untold stories of 15 prominent same-sex couples who defied cultural norms and made significant contributions to the arts, social change, and mor...
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Darwin, CharlesDisney Book Group 2006Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection has been debated and disparaged over time, but there is no dispute that he is responsible for some of the most remarkable...