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The Wright Brothers

David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 ~ 7:00 PM #1 New York Times bestseller

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville...
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 ~ 7:00 PM In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures...
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

MAXWELL KING - Abrams Press
Format: Book

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 ~ 7:00 PM Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion,...
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

John M Barry - Viking Adult
Format: Book

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 ~ 7:00 PM No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried...
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce Schneier - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM You are under surveillance right now.Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your...
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

SAM KEAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe

It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.

In Caesar's Last...
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Structures or Why things dont fall down

J. Gordon
Format: Book

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back--or give way under--thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper, a bias-cut...
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A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940

William R Trotter - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Book

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM In 1939, tiny Finland waged war-the kind of war that spawns legends-against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet their epic struggle has been largely ignored. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance,...
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