Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
By: Philip Jaekl
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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1. Shades of Grey
By: Jasper Fforde
4.11
Format: 559 pages,
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next-- a brilliant new novel about a world where social ord… read more
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2. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
By: John Bateson
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking c… read more
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3. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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4. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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5. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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6. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
9. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
By: Mark Miodownik
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tou… read more
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10. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more
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"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
11. 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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"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
12. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
13. Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death through the Paranormal
By: Adam Berry
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From paranormal investigator and host of Kindred Spirits Adam Berry comes Goodbye Hello , which ble… read more
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14. Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
By: Mehdi Hasan
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, r… read more
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15. The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
By: Anita Hannig
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of ou… read more
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16. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy
By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more
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17. Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind
By: David B. Nelson
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . … read more
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18. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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19. Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
By: Susannah Breslin
2.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What if your parents turned you into a human lab rat on the day you were born? Would that change th… read more
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20. Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult
By: Susan Ashline
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-… read more
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21. Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
By: Philip Jaekl
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“A fascinating look into the strange and sometimes unbelievable history of hypothermic medicine. Ja… read more
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