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25.

Pandora's gamble : lab leaks, pandemics, and a world at risk

Young, Alison (Journalist), author.

Publication Date

2023

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579.0289 YOU

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SD_ILS:705560

26.

Ancient Africa : a global history, to 300 CE

Ehret, Christopher, author.

Publication Date

2023

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960.1 EHR

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SD_ILS:681611

27.

Becoming bionic, and other ways science is making us super

Camlot, Heather, author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

303.48 CAM

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SD_ILS:682839

28.

Indigenous ingenuity : a celebration of traditional North American knowledge

Havrelock, Deidre, author.

Publication Date

2023

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500.8 HAV

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SD_ILS:682895

29.

That's fact-tastic! : mind-blowing, eye-popping, jaw-dropping stuff about our world.

Beer, Julie (Children's author), author.

Publication Date

2023

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031.02 THA

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SD_ILS:670182

30.

The dirty tricks department : Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the masterminds of World War II secret warfare

Lisle, John (Historian), author.

Publication Date

2023

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940.548673 LIS

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SD_ILS:671694

31.

The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel [CD] : genius, power, and deception on the eve of World War I

Brunt, Douglas, author.

Publication Date

2023

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926 DIE

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SD_ILS:697595

32.

The book at war : how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading

Pettegree, Andrew, author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

002.09 PET

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SD_ILS:697732

33.

Virginia wouldn't slow down! : the unstoppable Dr. Apgar and her life-saving invention

Pearson, Carrie A., 1962- author.

Publication Date

2023

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617.9 PEA

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SD_ILS:706700

34.

Fake history : 101 things that never happened

Teeuwisse, Jo, author.

Publication Date

2023

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909 TEE

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SD_ILS:711045

35.

The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel : genius, power, and deception on the eve of World War I

Brunt, Douglas, author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

926 DIE

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SD_ILS:691422

36.

Invention and innovation : a brief history of hype and failure

Smil, Vaclav, author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

600 SMI

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SD_ILS:670286

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