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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 73,706 ratings — published 2019
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 10,266 ratings — published 2022
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The Psychology of Overeating: Food and the Culture of Consumerism The Psychology of Overeating: Food and the Culture of Consumerism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 76 ratings — published 2015
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 207,192 ratings — published 2018
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Sipsikirja Sipsikirja (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.61 — 46 ratings — published
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The Language of Flowers The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 236,934 ratings — published 2011
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Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers & Reflections Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers & Reflections (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 4,859 ratings — published 2013
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101 yllättävää faktaa 101 yllättävää faktaa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.10 — 124 ratings — published 2019
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 732 ratings — published 2019
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 10,854 ratings — published 2020
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Other Minds Other Minds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 29,800 ratings — published 2016
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 11,296 ratings — published 2021
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,356 ratings — published 2010
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This Is Your Mind on Plants This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 35,487 ratings — published 2021
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Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,203 ratings — published 2018
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 217,345 ratings — published 2017
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 93,457 ratings — published 2015
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Victorian Psychology and British Culture 1850-1880 Victorian Psychology and British Culture 1850-1880 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2000
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,470 ratings — published 2005
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Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 196 ratings — published 2006
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Crystal King
“While Apicius is full of ancient delicacies such as roasted peacock, boiled sow vulva, testicles, and other foods we would not commonly eat today, there are many others that are still popular, including tapenade, absinthe, flatbreads, and meatballs. There is even a recipe for Roman milk and egg bread that is identical to what we call French toast. And, contrary to popular belief, foie gras was not originally a French delicacy. The dish dates back twenty-five hundred years, and Pliny credits Apicius with developing a version using pigs instead of geese by feeding hogs dried figs and giving them an overdose of mulsum (honey wine) before slaughtering them.”
― Crystal King, Feast of Sorrow

Maureen Johnson
“[Until Frances Glessner Lee] It used to be that when someone died, there was no set method for examining the body and the scene. All kinds of people would be sent who had no formal training, and they'd contaminate the scene. Sometimes people would be accused of murder when it was an accident and the other way around”
― Maureen Johnson, The Box in the Woods

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