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The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

Suzanne O'Sullivan

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction health psychology informative mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South by Bruce Levine

The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

Bruce Levine

464 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history dark slow-paced
The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal by Yonatan Adler

The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal

Yonatan Adler

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history religion sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Leana Wen

Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

Leana Wen

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction biography health sociology challenging emotional informative medium-paced
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation by Jason Miklian, Scott Carney

The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation

Jason Miklian, Scott Carney

528 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history nature emotional informative tense medium-paced
Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakin

Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America

Hugh Eakin

480 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction art history informative medium-paced
Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden

Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

Blaine Harden

359 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history challenging dark informative medium-paced
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

Andy Greenberg

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction crime challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer

The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

David I. Kertzer

672 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative slow-paced
Otherlands: Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday

Otherlands: Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

416 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced