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Vagina Obscura

An Anatomical Voyage

by Rachel E. Gross ...

**Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardOne of Five Books Best Literary Science Writing titles in 2023A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Science Friday Best Science Book to Read This SummerA myth-busting voyage into the female body.**A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly ... Read more

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**Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardOne of Five Books Best Literary Science Writing titles in 2023A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Science Friday Best Science Book to Read This SummerA myth-busting voyage into the female body.**A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly
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Vagina Obscura

An Anatomical Voyage

by Rachel E. Gross ...

Narrated by Siho Ellsmore ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

A scientific journey to the center of the new female body.The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men.Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally ... Read more

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A scientific journey to the center of the new female body.The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men.Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally
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Beyond the Synagogue

Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

by Rachel B Gross ...

Series series North American Religions
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesHonorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical SocietyReveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuityIn 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesHonorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical SocietyReveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuityIn 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods

How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America

by Rachel S. Gross ...

A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shoppingNo escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending ... Read more

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A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shoppingNo escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending
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Big Box USA

The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores

Edited by Bart Elmore, Rachel S. Gross, Sherri Sheu ...

Series series Path to Open
Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life.The rise ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life.The rise
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods

How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America

by Rachel S. Gross ...

Narrated by Melissa Redmond ...

Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shoppingNo escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shoppingNo escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending
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File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

by Lemony Snicket ...

Narrated by Jon Scieszka, Terry Gross, Sarah Vowell, Libba Bray, Ira Glass, Sophie Blackall, Jon Klassen, Chris Kluwe, Holly Black, Sook-Yin Lee, Rachel Maddow, Stephin Merritt, Wesley Stace ...

Series Audiobook 2.5 - All the Wrong Questions
Unabridged

3 hours 1 min

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world.Match wits with Lemony Snicket to solve thirteen mini-mysteries.Paintings have been falling off of walls, a loud and loyal dog has gone missing, a specter has been seen walking the pier at midnight -- ... Read more

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Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world.Match wits with Lemony Snicket to solve thirteen mini-mysteries.Paintings have been falling off of walls, a loud and loyal dog has gone missing, a specter has been seen walking the pier at midnight --
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Restart

by Gordon Korman ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross, Laura Knight Keating, Andy Paris, Suzy Jackson, Graham Halstead, John Kroft, Ramón de Ocampo ...

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman harkens back to his No More Dead Dogs days in this stand-alone that takes a tone more serious than you've ever seen from him before. A boy who's been a bully and hanging out with the wrong friends gets a new start after a memory-loss-inducing accident. But can someone really change who he is, or will the old him merely come back over time? ... Read more

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman harkens back to his No More Dead Dogs days in this stand-alone that takes a tone more serious than you've ever seen from him before. A boy who's been a bully and hanging out with the wrong friends gets a new start after a memory-loss-inducing accident. But can someone really change who he is, or will the old him merely come back over time?
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room

by Lemony Snicket ...

Narrated by Tim Curry ...

Series Audiobook 2 - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Unabridged

3 hours 11 min

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESViolet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.In the first two books alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, a lumpy bed, a deadly serpent, a ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESViolet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.In the first two books alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, a lumpy bed, a deadly serpent, a
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Warriors #1: Into the Wild

by Erin Hunter ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Warriors: The Prophecies Begin
Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

Epic adventures. Fierce warrior cats. A thrilling fantasy world. It all begins here.Read the book that began a phenomenon—and join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a #1 national bestseller.For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their ancestors. But the warrior code has been threatened, and the ThunderClan ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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Epic adventures. Fierce warrior cats. A thrilling fantasy world. It all begins here.Read the book that began a phenomenon—and join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a #1 national bestseller.For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their ancestors. But the warrior code has been threatened, and the ThunderClan
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Son

by Lois Lowry ...

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

Unabridged

8 hours 11 min

“They called her Water Claire.”When the young girl washed up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved from her belly. Stolen.Claire had had a son. She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. And so her journey began.But here in this wind-battered ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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“They called her Water Claire.”When the young girl washed up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved from her belly. Stolen.Claire had had a son. She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. And so her journey began.But here in this wind-battered
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Messenger

by Lois Lowry ...

Narrated by David Morse ...

Unabridged

3 hours 44 min

Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Lois Lowry returns with MESSENGER; the eagerly anticipated companion to Gathering Blue and The Giver, winner of the Newbery Medal. ... Read more

$14.00 USD

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Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Lois Lowry returns with MESSENGER; the eagerly anticipated companion to Gathering Blue and The Giver, winner of the Newbery Medal.
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