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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (Paperback) By Rachel Aviv $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Paperback) By Gabor Maté, MD, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. (Foreword by) $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke (Paperback) By Maximillian Alvarez $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Plague in Paradise: The Black Death in Los Angeles, 1924 (Paperback) By Jeffrey S. Copeland $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover) By Tricia Hersey $28.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Backordered	The Real RFK Jr.: Trials of a Truth Warrior (Hardcover) By Dick Russell $32.50 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Paperback) By Dr. Anna Lembke $18.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover) By Jonathan Kennedy $30.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Hardcover) By Dr. Arline T. Geronimus $30.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
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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