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    Mid­wives and Med­i­cine in Ancient Egypt: Writ­ing His­tor­i­cal Fiction

    Mag­gie Anton
    March 3, 2025
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    Trea­sures, Ship­wrecks, and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving
    Howard Rosen­stein
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    Sis­ters in Sci­ence: How Four Women Physi­cists Escaped Nazi Ger­many and Made Sci­en­tif­ic History 
    Olivia Camp­bell
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    Mikołaj Gryn­berg; Sean Gasper Bye, trans. 
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    Hill of Secrets
    Gali­na Vromen
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    Remem­ber­ing Ros­alind Franklin: Ros­alind Franklin & the Dis­cov­ery of the Dou­ble Helix Struc­ture of DNA
    Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus.
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    My Grandfather’s Secret: Jew­ish Inside the Man­hat­tan Project

    Rachel Rob­bins
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    Space Torah: Astro­naut Jef­frey Hoff­man’s Cos­mic Mitzvah
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    When Women Get Sick: An Empow­er­ing Approach for Get­ting the Sup­port You Need
    Rebec­ca Bloom
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    Invis­i­ble Labor: The Untold Sto­ry of the Cesare­an Section
    Rachel Somer­stein
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    What Your Body Knows About Hap­pi­ness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind
    Jan­ice Kaplan
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    Hadara Bar-Nadav
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    Excerpt — Ein­stein in Kafka­land: How Albert Fell Down the Rab­bit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

    Ken Krim­stein
    August 19, 2024
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    Mom­my, Can Boys Also Be Doc­tors?: Mes­sage To Young Sci­en­tists And Oth­er Humans
    Mar­lene Belfort
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    Han­nah Reynolds

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