Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean
“It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. With[…]
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Tag: Non-fiction
Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg
“Alex & Me is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an[…]
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Left for Dead by Beck Weathers
“In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on[…]
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The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman
England’s Tudor monarchs—Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I—are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of[…]
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Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known[…]
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Grunt by Mary Roach
“Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists[…]
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Sex in the Museum by Susan Forbes
“Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology[…]
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Girl in the Woods by Aspen Matis
“Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis’s exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story,[…]
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The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
“In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his[…]
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Elena Vanishing by Elena and Clare B. Dunkle
“Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of[…]
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