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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

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The Good Death Through Time

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

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If This Is a Man • The Truce

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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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