Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande


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The Judgment of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and the Birth of Impressionism
by Ross King


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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan


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The Myrtles Plantation: The True Story of America’s Most Haunted House
by Frances Kermeen


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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
by Nathaniel Philbrick


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Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Brief History of Ancient Egypt
by Barbara Mertz

Barbara Mertz is the author of the Amelia Peabody series under the pen name of Elizabeth Peters
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Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

An economist and a journalist team up to tackle some rather odd ball questions:
- Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool?
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Walt Disney and the Promise of Progress City
by Sam Gennawey


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The Devil’s Highway
by Luis Alberto Urrea


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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
by Linda Lawrence Hunt


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