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The Darwin Awards countdown to extinction
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Wendy Northcutt |
Features examples of people whose lack of common sense resulted in their demise, in a tribute to how the evolutionary process is improved when individuals of questionable intelligence accidentally re… |
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Fallen Angels
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Kirk Crivello |
Looking at the lives and deaths of Hollywood stars--including Sharon Tate, Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Jayne Mansfield, and many others--the author contrasts their glamorous images with the tragedi… |
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The Darwin Awards
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Wendy Northcutt |
***'Only two things are infinite – the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.'***
**Albert Einstein, 'Scientific adviser to the Darwin Awards'**
www.DarwinAwards.com i… |
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Driven
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Richard Foot |
A look at how two New Brunswick mothers who lost their sons in the crash that killed seven members of the Bathurst High School basketball team marshalled their grief into fighting for improved safety… |
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The Accident Season
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Moïra Fowley-Doyle |
Every October Cara and her family become mysteriously and dangerously accident-prone, but this year, the year Cara, her ex-stepbrother, and her best friend are 17, is when Cara will begin to unravel … |
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I can't breathe
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Matt Taibbi |
A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police--from the bestselling author of The Divide |
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Stony Kill
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Marie White Small |
"Following her mother's sudden death, a Brooklyn baker abandons her sometimes violent father and a long-suffering partner to stay on the family farm of her childhood along the Stony Kill river--a pla… |
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Max
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Juval Aviv |
In 1989, with his media empire on the brink of collapse, Max Robertson dies mysteriously, apparently committing suicide. Now, six months on, ex-Mossad agent Sam Woolfman is hired to find Robertson's … |
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Death of a dormouse
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Reginald Hill |
The bare-headed policeman on Trudi's doorstep brought her the news that her husband Trent has been burned to death in a car accident. Suddenly, Trudi finds herself alone, unprovided for and increasin… |
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