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The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters (Hardcover) By J. W. Ocker $20.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Haunted St. Louis: History & Hauntings Along the Mississippi (Paperback) By Troy Taylor $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD (Hardcover) By Jason Kander $28.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Death in Zion National Park: Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in Utah's Grand Circle (Paperback) By Randi Minetor $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Tower Grove Park: Common Ground and Grateful Shade Since 1872 (Hardcover) By Amanda E. Doyle $39.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Historic Photos of Steamboats on the Mississippi (Hardcover) By Dean M. Shapiro (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) $39.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
I’ll Tell You a Tale: An Anthology (The J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library) (Paperback) By J. Frank Dobie $16.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Ghost Towns of Wyoming (Hardcover) By Bruce A. Raisch $25.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways (Missouri Heritage Readers #1) (Paperback) By Robyn Burnett, Ken Luebbering $24.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Historic Photos of Steamboats on the Mississippi (Hardcover) By Dean M. Shapiro $39.95 Contact us to check availability or search our used and rare book site at www.findbooks.com	Catfish, Fiddles, Mules, and More: Missouri's State Symbols (Missouri Heritage Readers #1) (Paperback) By John C. Fisher $18.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer (Missouri Heritage Readers #1) (Paperback) By Ilene Stone, Suzanna M. Grenz $18.95 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.

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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