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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the 1918 Pandemic
by John M. Barry

Great Information (8/12/2011)

I found this book to be very enlightening and learned a lot about the disease, the times, the mentality, and the sciences of the day. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to know about this tragic time in our history. I found it easy to ready, which cannot always …more

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Lessons in Chemistry
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Praised by Parade and The New York Times Book Review, this debut features a 1960s scientist turned TV cooking star.

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by Milo Todd

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, a poignant tale of a trans man’s survival in Nazi Germany and postwar Berlin.

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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung

Based on the author’s family story, comes an extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ escape from Taiwan.

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