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The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

Jeanne Lenzer · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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- Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America, killing more Americans each year than diabetes, murders, car accidents and AIDS combined.

- An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like...
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

CATHERINE KERRISON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers.
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Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front

Gillian Mawson · Pen and Sword
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

On the outbreak of the Second World War, during the first week of September 1939 over three million people were evacuated. Operation Pied Piper was the largest ever transportation of people across Britain, and most of those moved to safety in the countryside were schoolchildren. Social...
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

Matthew Gavin Frank
Format: Hardcover

An utterly propulsive investigation into the dangerous, nearly mythical trade of South African diamond smuggling, and its shocking key player: the carrier pigeon.In 2016, American investigative journalist Matthew Gavin Frank traveled along South Africa's notorious Diamond Coast to report...
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Ex Libris: 100 Books to Read and Reread

Michiko Kakutani · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Books can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures, national boundaries, and historical eras," Kakutani writes in her introduction to Ex Libris. Here readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics...
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