Island on Fire
By
Alexandra Witze
Alexandra Witze,
Jeff Kanipe
Jeff Kanipe
2014 • 224 pages

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60 books

Natural History

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Scent
A History of the World Through Body Parts
Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life
The Hot Zone
Butts: A Backstory
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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251 books

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Sarah
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
Victoria's Daughters
The Psychopath Test
Breasts a natural and unnatural history
The Pluto Files
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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97 books

Nf Science

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Sarah
The Psychopath Test
The Pluto Files
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Deep
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The fatal strain

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67 books

Nf History

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Sarah
The story of the scrolls
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Defining the Wind
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

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77 books

2015ebook

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Sarah
Dead man's deal
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Meg: Origins
Death Sworn
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
Engraved on the Eye
Zenn Scarlett

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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19 books

Geology

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Ms. Adventure
Island on Fire
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain through its Geology
Wonderful life
Uranium

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75 books

History Europe

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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

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4 books

1780s

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
The Lacemaker and the Princess

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31 books

Natural Disasters

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The One and Only Bob
Salvage
Dead Mountain
Under Water: A Natural Disaster Memoir
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster

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6 books

Volcanoes

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Island on Fire
Ashfall
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves

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3 books

History Europe Scandinavian

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Island on Fire
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
The Real Valkyrie

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2 books

Iceland

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Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World
Island on Fire

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227 books

Owned

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Sarah
Updraft
Jacob T. Marley
Meg: Origins
Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess
Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr
One Good Knight

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1 book

History Europe Iceland

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