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Halloween and Commemorations of the Dead

Almost all cultures around the world have days during which they honor those who have died, and pray for those souls that have not yet reached the afterlife. This book looks at the different customs from around the world, including Halloween, All Souls' Day, Day of the Dead, Tomb Sweeping Day and Ghost Festival.

The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, snd the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece

The Lady and Her Monsters brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein. 

The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer

In the early 1870s, local children began disappearing from the working class neighborhoods of Boston. Several returned home bloody and bruised after being tortured, while others never came back.

 

with the city on edge, authorities believed the abductions were the handiwork of a psychopath, until they discovered the killer - fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy - was barely older than his victims. The criminal investigation that followed sparked a debate among the world's most revered medical minds, and would have decades' long impacts on the judicila system and medical consciousness.

Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

When Ann Woodward shot her husband, banking heir Billy Woodward, in the middle of the night in 1955, her life changed forever. Though she claimed she thought he was a prowler, few believed the woman who has risen from charismatic showgirl to popular showgirl. Everyone had something to say about the scorching scandal afflicting one of the richest and most famous families of New York City, but no one was more obsessed with the tale than Truman Capote.

Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

Recruited from labs and universities from across the United States, and even from countries abroad, a little-known group of female scientists were invited into the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. During World War II these women worked on - and in some cases initiated - the development of the atomic bomb, taking starring roles in one of history's most infamous scientific feats. But despite their involvement, critical to the project's success, many of them weren't made fully aware of the consequences.

Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women

When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered running for a train in rural Illinois mere months before her Olympic debut. Amsterdam made her a star.
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