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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Antonia Fraser
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
Trevor Corson
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
Sam Kean
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Edward Slingerland
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty
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