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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Children's Blizzard
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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