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  • March 4, 2025
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Blood in the Machine
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
Gloves: An Intimate History
Opium’s Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Shackleton
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
The Nineties
Buried
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
A Train in Winter
Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Phantom Plague
Lakes: Their Birth, Life, and Death
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
The Cigarette
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A Place For Everything

Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Mosquito

A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Shady characters
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
The Book On the Bookshelf
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The Phone Book

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Calories & Corsets
Candyfreak
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Digging Up the Dead

The Invention of News
Papyrus
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
Too Hot to Handle
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Shareware Heroes
Saints Behaving Badly
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
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The Elements of a Home

Refuge
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
Bodleianalia: Curious Facts about Britain's Oldest University Library
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Rust: The Longest War
Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet
Milk!
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences
Isaac's Storm
Empire of the Sum
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
The Week
Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
Chernobyl
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Milk