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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Thomas Morris · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered...
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The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between

Patrick Foote · Mango
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

#1 Amazon New Release! ? The Origins of Names ExplainedExplore the world of names: What is something that literally everything in existence has in common? It all has a name! With The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between, you can learn the origins of these names. From countries...
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Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front

Mara Altman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An honest, funny, neurotic, and totally gross love child of Mindy Kaling and Mary Roach.Mara Altman's volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like, who decided that women shouldn't have body hair? And how sweaty...
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The Diary of a Bookseller

SHAUN BYTHELL · Melville House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Hilarious, wry, and charming tales of bookselling in remotest Scotland "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." --Dwight Garner, New York TimesThe funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's...
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If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin · Vintage
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father...
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You Are a Badass Every Day

JEN SINCERO · Viking
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The new book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass and You Are a Badass at Making Money.
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Radiant Shimmering Light

SARAH SELECKY · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A nuanced satire--both hilarious and disconcerting--that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online lives.Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal...
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About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir

Peggy Rowe · Rowe, Peggy
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That's not to say it's not about my mother - it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense,...
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My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel

Oyinkan Braithwaite · Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"My Sister, the Serial Killer is a gem, in the most accurate sense: small, hard, sharp, and polished to perfection."--Edgar Cantero, New York Times bestselling author of Meddling KidsSatire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman...
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A Midwinter's Tail

Bethany Blake · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

To bark or not to bark . . .Professional pet sitter Daphne Templeton loves the holidays in Sylvan Creek, Pennsylvania. And nothing gets her into the spirit more than the town's annual Bark the Halls Ball. The whole community will be there to wag their tails, especially this year's...
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