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T. rex and the crater of doom / Walter Alvarez. (576.84)

The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry. (614.518)

Electric universe : the shocking true story of electricity / David Bodanis. (537)

Buzz : the science and lore of alcohol and caffeine / Stephen Braun. (615.7828)

The lady and the panda : the true adventures of the first American explorer to bring back China's most exotic animal / Vicki Constantine Croke. (B Harkness)

Next of kin : what my conversations with chimpanzees have taught me about intelligence, compassion, and being human / Roger Fouts with Stephen Tukel Mills. (156)

Waiting for Aphrodite : journeys into the time before bones / Sue Hubbell ; with illustrations by Liddy Hubbell. (592)

The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world / Steven Johnson. (614.5)

Biography of a germ / Arno Karlen. (579.32)

Brunelleschi's dome : how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture / Ross King. (726.6)

 Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history / Erik Larson. (976.4139)

The children's blizzard / David Laskin. (977.031)

The mold in Dr. Florey's coat : the story of the penicillin miracle / Eric Lax. (615.32956)

Napoleon's buttons : how 17 molecules changed history / Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson. (540)

The Johnstown flood, by David G. McCullough. (974.877)

The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals / Michael Pollan. (394.12)

The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks. (616.8)

Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time / Dava Sobel. (526.62)

The earth moved : on the remarkable achievements of earthworms / by Amy Stewart. (592.64)

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