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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER By Thomas Fisher, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by) Cover Image
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER (Hardcover)
By Thomas Fisher, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by)
$27.00
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl By Markiyan Kamysh, Hanna Leliv (Translated by), Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translated by) Cover Image
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl (Hardcover)
By Markiyan Kamysh, Hanna Leliv (Translated by), Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translated by)
$22.00
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire By Lizzie Johnson Cover Image
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire (Hardcover)
By Lizzie Johnson
$28.00
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Paperback)
By Rebecca Solnit
$18.00
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The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival By Chris Begley Cover Image
The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival (Hardcover)
By Chris Begley
$28.00
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Lannan Selection) By Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (Translator) Cover Image
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Lannan Selection) (Hardcover)
By Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (Translator)
$29.00
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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 By Andy Horowitz Cover Image
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 (Paperback)
By Andy Horowitz
$17.95
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid By Lawrence Wright Cover Image
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (Hardcover)
By Lawrence Wright
$28.00
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital By Sheri Fink Cover Image
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Paperback)
By Sheri Fink
$20.00
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Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living By Robert A. Jensen Cover Image
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living (Hardcover)
By Robert A. Jensen
$28.99
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On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year Is the Worst One Ever (Field Notes #3) By Andrew Potter Cover Image
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year Is the Worst One Ever (Field Notes #3) (Paperback)
By Andrew Potter
$12.95
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 By Michael Capuzzo Cover Image
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 (Paperback)
By Michael Capuzzo
$17.00
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