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1. The angel makers: arsenic, a midwife, and modern history's most astonishing murder ring

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Author:
McCracken, Patti
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
364.152 MCCRA
Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction
364.152 MCCRA
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
364.152 MCCRA
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"The angel makers is a true-crime story like no other-a 1920s midwife who may have been the century's most prolific killer, leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men"--

2. Ghosts of the tsunami: death and life in Japan's disaster zone

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Author:
Parry, Richard Lloyd
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
952.05 PARRY
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
952.05 PARRY
Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction
952.05 PARRY

3. The indifferent stars above: the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride

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Author:
Brown, Daniel James, 1951-
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
978 BROWN
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978 BROWN
Holly Springs Community - Adult Non-Fiction
978 BROWN

4. Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

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Author:
Grann, David
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4 stars
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE
“A shocking whodunit…What...

5. Pathogenesis: a history of the world in eight plagues

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Kennedy, Jonathan
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614.4 KENNE
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614.4 KENNE
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614.4 KENNE
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"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history-from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism-have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...

6. We carry their bones: the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys

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Author:
Kimmerle, Erin H.
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365.42 KIMME
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365.42 KIMME
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365.42 KIMME
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Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.