The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life on Earth.
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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the invention of time through the centuries-long story of one of mankind’s most profound technological achie…
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever before. While this has had the positive effect of equalizing access to knowledge, it also has lowere…
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the G…
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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf …
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet.
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The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
This is the story of a national obsession.
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The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation (Story of Christianity)
“This crisp retelling of Christian history from the days of the apostles to the eve of the Reformation is filled with insight.”
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Murder, She Knit (A Knit & Nibble Mystery, #1)
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The Book of Fate
"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."
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To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
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Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
From Alton Brown, the New York Times bestselling cookbook author and beloved culinary food personality, a debut collection of personal essays defined by his flair, wit, and insight.
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The Tomb of Dragons (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #3)
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is gone, what defines him?
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