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The Half Life of Valery K : THE TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
Pulley, NatashaBloomsbury Publishing 2022A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 The Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month The truth must come out.In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has...
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Monstrous : The Lore, Gore, and Science behind Your Favorite Monsters
Beccia, CarlynLerner Publishing Group 2019Bursting with blood, guts, history, and science, this book is a must-have for monster lovers of all ages Could Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body? Why should vampires d...
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Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Higginbotham, AdamSimon & Schuster 2019A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner One of NPR...
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Sachiko : A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
Stelson, CarenLerner Publishing Group 2016"What happened to me must never happen to you."—Sachiko Yasui August 9, 1945, began like any other day for six-year-old Sachiko. Her country was at war, she didn't have enough to e...
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The Gene : An Intimate History
Mukherjee, SiddharthaScribner 2016The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book Song of th...
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The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Myers, Steven LeeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2015As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the importance of understanding the formidable and ambitious Vladimir Putin has never been greater. This gripping narrative of P...
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The Sky Unwashed
Zabytko, IreneAlgonquin Books 2000Early on an April Saturday in 1986 in a farm village in Ukraine, widow Marusia Petrenko and her family awake to a day of traditional wedding preparations. Marusia bakes her famous...