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Strange Medicine A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages - Nathan Belofsky
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. ReviewPublishers Weekly-Belofsky (The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities) conjures... -
Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations (Knopf, 2012)
From the best-selling author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a provocative investigation into hallucinations--auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory--thei... -
Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival
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I Am Malala - The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban -
Five Days at Memorial Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital - Sheri Fink
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital -
Cooked_ A Natural History of Transformat - Michael Pollan
In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire, water, air, and... -
Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great
SUMMARY:Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe... -
Cheryl Strayed - Wild- From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty... -
American Gun A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms - Chris Kyle
Chris Kyle—fallen hero and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper—reveals how ten legendary guns forever changed U.S. history.At the time of his tragic death in February 2013... -
ARGO - Antonio Mendez
The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from IranOn November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured doz...