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What If?: An Intellectual Gift (Hardcover) By Randall Munroe $30.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover) By Randall Munroe $30.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler (Paperback) By Ryan North $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain (Hardcover) By Ryan North $28.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death (Hardcover) By Caitlin Doughty, Dianné Ruz (Illustrator) $25.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities (Paperback) By Russell Ash, Brian Lake $14.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?: Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers (Fascinating Bathroom Readers) (Paperback) By Andrew Thompson $12.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits (Paperback) By Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, Editors of Mental Floss $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down: Number 2 (Hardcover) By James Fell $44.99 Contact us to check availability or search our used and rare book site at www.findbooks.com
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down (Hardcover) By James Fell $44.99 Contact us to check availability or search our used and rare book site at www.findbooks.com	Stocking Stuffers: 1147 Random And Interesting, Fun Fact Everyone Should Know (Large Print / Paperback) By Jamie Banther, Facts Book $13.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes (Paperback) By Cody Cassidy $18.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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The Book House
7352 Manchester Rd.
Maplewood, MO 63143

Phone: 314-968-4491
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Friday & Saturday: 11 AM–9 PM
Sunday: 1-6 PM

Holiday hours:
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December 25: Closed
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January 1: Closed

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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