A Is For Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death
By: Chris Woodyard
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A is for Arsenic is a guide to the basics of Victorian mourning with “death-initions,” and stories …
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1. The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Plu… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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3. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
By: Alison Weir
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unpr… read more
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4. The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
By: Carla Valentine
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels Agatha Christie is the bestse… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
By: Maureen Johnson
4.01
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Thinking of a foray to a quaint English village? You'll think twice after reading this tongue-in-ch… read more
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- nonfiction
6. 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
- nonfiction
"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
7. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
8. My Darling Dreadful Thing
By: Johanna van Veen
3.89
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more
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"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
9. Huda F Cares?
By: Huda Fahmy
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more
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"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
10. Plain Jane and the Mermaid
By: Vera Brosgol
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more
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11. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
12. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- death
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
13. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- death
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
14. West Heart Kill
By: Dann McDorman
3.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the West Heart country club. Where the drinks are neat but behind closed doors . . . thi… read more
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"You're a private detective."-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill
"The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth."-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill
"People hunger for epiphany, you think, they clamor for it, but given a chance, who among us would actually recognize it? Or, having seen it, would choose to act?"-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill
"This is, you reflect, one of the consolations of the genre: any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth–however skillfully camouflaged by lies–accessible to all."-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill
15. Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners
By: Ben Hubbard
4.24
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Chronologically recounting the story of history's silent assassin, Poison documents the gripping ta… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.23
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plag… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
By: Lisa Perrin
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A feast for the senses, this sumptuously illustrated book will introduce you to some of the most in… read more
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- nonfiction
18. When the Devil
By: Emma E. Murray
4.29
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
In When the Devil, Libby finds salvation in a new sapphic partner, homebrewed poison, and facing a … read more
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19. Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings (Ancient Lives)
By: Toby Wilkinson
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for t… read more
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- nonfiction
20. A Is For Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death
By: Chris Woodyard
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A is for Arsenic is a guide to the basics of Victorian mourning with “death-initions,” and stories … read more
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- victorian
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- death
21. Midnight Rooms
By: Donyae Coles
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of … read more
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