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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massac re
RJ Young - Counterpoint Format: Hardcover
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With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American historyMore than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against... |
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Rachel E. Gross - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A scientific journey to the center of the new female body.The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome... |
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Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks
David Bushman - Thomas & Mercer Format: Hardcover
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In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York, beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost stories, and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of Twin Peaks. Who killed Hazel Drew? Like Laura Palmer, she was a paradox of personalities... |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro - Viking Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
ELIZABETH NORTON - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL - Hill and Wang Format: Hardcover
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Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee... |
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Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy
Paul Thomas Murphy - Pegasus; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book for 2012. From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet–assassin, a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts on Queen Victoria. During Queen Victoria’s 64-year reign, no fewer than eight attempts... |
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