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American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER (Paperback) By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin $25.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Mass Market) By Anne Frank, Otto M. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor), Susan Massotty (Translated by) $7.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Hardcover) By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin $85.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover) By Mary Beard $39.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback) By Ibram X. Kendi $19.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	On Juneteenth (Hardcover) By Annette Gordon-Reed $15.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback) By Andrew Roberts $25.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (Paperback) By Stacy Schiff $21.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem (Paperback) By Stacy Schiff $21.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Leonardo da Vinci (Paperback) By Walter Isaacson $22.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (Paperback) By Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (Foreword by), Sean Hemingway (Introduction by) $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Paperback) By Jack Weatherford $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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Science Friday Book Club

Listeners to NPR's Science Friday may know that the program also has a monthly book club, with recommendations each month.

If you'd like to join the discussion of the books, you can visit their website here, and all books featured can also be directly ordered from the Book House!

November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

December: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 edited by Carl Zimmer and Jaime Green

January: An Immense World by Ed Yong