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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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Thistlefoot : A Novel
Nethercott, GennaRoseKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2022In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings wh...
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) : An American History
Ferrer, AdaScribner 2021WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweep...
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Unsettled : What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
Koonin, Steven E.BenBella Books 2021"Unsettled is a remarkable book—probably the best book on climate change for the intelligent layperson—that achieves the feat of conveying complex information clearly and in depth....
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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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Begin Again : James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Glaude, Eddie S.Crown 2020NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure...
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The Mosquito : A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Winegard, Timothy C.Penguin Publishing Group 2019**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—...
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Basketball : A Love Story
MacMullan Jackie; Bartholomew, Rafe; Klores, DanCrown 2018NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its...
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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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Amsterdam : A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Shorto, RussellKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amste...
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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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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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Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Larson, ErikKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The De...
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The Lost City of Z : A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Grann, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie...
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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...