Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
By: Paul A. Offit
4.29
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hi…
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1. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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- history
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- science
2. Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
By: Christian Rudder
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior--and a first lo… read more
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- science
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- audiobook
3. The Comet Seekers
By: Helen Sedgwick
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One DaymeetsThe Time Traveler's Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss, ho… read more
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4. Little Deaths
By: Emma Flint
3.96
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, i… read more
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5. Death in Venice and Other Stories
By: Thomas Mann , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Death in Veniceis a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but aging writer who… read more
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6. Sutton
By: J.R. Moehringer
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth c… read more
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7. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more
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8. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
By: Peter Stark
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast … read more
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9. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
By: Graham Bowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages,
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most … read more
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10. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more
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11. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
By: Jacob Tomsky
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Kitchen Confidentialand Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically i… read more
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12. The Promise
By: Ann Weisgarber
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, shortlisted for the Orange Award for New … read more
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13. The Rose Garden
By: Susanna Kearsley
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
"Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough." Eva Ward returns to the only place she … read more
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14. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
By: Katherine Eban
4.42
Format: 512 pages, ebook
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more
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- audiobook
15. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
By: Nathalia Holt
3.88
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- science
16. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
17. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
By: John Wood Sweet
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
18. Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
By: Barry Meier
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid e… read more
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- science
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- audiobook
19. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
By: Matt Richtel
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to he… read more
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- medical
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- nonfiction
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"Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth."-Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
20. The Wolf in the Whale
By: Jordanna Max Brodsky
4.12
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
A sweeping tale of clashing cultures, warring gods, and forbidden love: In 1000 AD, a young Inuit s… read more
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"Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell."-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale
"Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god."-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale
"Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?"-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale
"Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?"-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale
21. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more
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- history
- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
22. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
By: Neil Theise
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more
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23. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
By: Steffanie Strathdee
4.39
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more
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- biography
- health
- medical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
24. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
By: Richard White
3.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
By: Tom Ireland
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
By: Shane O'Mara
3.31
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A hymn to walking, the mechanical magic at the core of our humanity. Walking upright on two feet… read more
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- history
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"The larger lesson is clear: brains have evolved for movement. If you're going to be stuck, unmoving, in one place, with all your food around you, then why do you need a costly brain?"-Shane O'Mara, In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
27. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
By: Richard A. McKay
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood… read more
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- audiobook
28. Marlene
By: C.W. Gortner
3.96
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood’… read more
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29. Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
By: Paul A. Offit
4.29
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hi… read more
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- biography
- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- disease
- audiobook
30. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
31. Mayo Clinic Guide To A Healthy Pregnancy, 2nd Edition
By: Myra J. Wick
4.50
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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