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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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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 Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation By Scott Carney, Jason Miklian Cover Image
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation (Hardcover)
By Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
$29.99
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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 (Paperback)
By Lizzie Johnson
$18.99
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens By Steve Olson Cover Image
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
By Steve Olson
$16.95
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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 (Paperback)
By Lawrence Wright
$18.00
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew By Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward, Robert Crippen (Foreword by), Col. Eileen M. Collins, USAF (Retired) (Epilogue by) Cover Image
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Paperback)
By Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward, Robert Crippen (Foreword by), Col. Eileen M. Collins, USAF (Retired) (Epilogue by)
$18.99
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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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Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster By R. Eli Paul Cover Image
Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster (Hardcover)
By R. Eli Paul
$34.95
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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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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth By Madeline Ostrander Cover Image
At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth (Hardcover)
By Madeline Ostrander
$28.99
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