The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone

By
Richard Preston
Richard Preston
1994 • 448 pages

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99 books

History

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Katlyn
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Atlas Obscura
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Suburban Legends: True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans
The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes

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74 books

Science

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Katlyn
Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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52 books

Medicine

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Katlyn
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
Get Well Soon

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20 books

Disease

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Katlyn
Get Well Soon
Vaccinated
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

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200 books

Asap

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Melita
Think : a compelling introduction to philosophy
American Predator
The Bloody Chamber
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
A Scanner Darkly

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217 books

Non Fiction

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Melita
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Running With Scissors
Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality, Identity, and the Self
The Consolations Of Philosophy
And I Alone Survived

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94 books

Own Read

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Rae
The Fellowship of the Ring
Faust
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
Mexican Gothic
Eragon
Redshirts

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74 books

Owned

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River
Dune
1984
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
Hell Followed with Us
Lavender House
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Titan's Curse

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86 books

Med History/Special Interest

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River
The American Plague
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Spiral Notebook
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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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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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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128 books

Plagues And Epidemics

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Chasing Secrets
Where the World Turns Wild
The World the Plague Made
Marie-Grace Makes a Difference
A Journal of the Plague Year
Illusionarium
The Pull of the Stars

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101 books

Narrative Nonfiction

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Spiritomb
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Fun home
El Deafo
Night Flying Woman
Adrift
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Rebent Sinner

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7 books

History Natural

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Spiritomb
The Hot Zone
The Pig
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
The American Plague

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14 books

Favorites

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Linda
The Grapes of Wrath
The Hot Zone
East of Eden
The Devil in the White City
Life of Pi
The Coward's Tale
In Cold Blood

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4 books

Science

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Steven
The Order of Time
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Hot Zone

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119 books

Favorites

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The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Hobbit
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
The Fountainhead

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71 books

Non Fiction

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
Hitch 22: A Memoir
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Your Inner Fish

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19 books

Read Part

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Marcus
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
The Pillars of the Earth
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Water for Elephants
The Secret
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of ""Energy Independence""
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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22 books

Nonfiction

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Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration
Out of Your Mind
Pirate Hunters

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551 books

Owned

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Jamie
The Flinch
Los Cinco Lenguajes Del Amor
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
How to Be a 3% Man, Winning the Heart of the Woman of Your Dreams
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
The Mental Game of Poker
Cloud Atlas

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917 books

Nonfiction

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Katie
Citizen: An American Lyric
Negroland
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Modern Romance
Why Not Me?
The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup
The Last Act of Love

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123 books

Audiobook

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Angela Ambroz
Big Girls Don't Cry
The Path
Americanah
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
The Sympathizer
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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28 books

SciFi

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mitchell
I Am Legend
Classics Illustrated (#12) The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Time Machine
Flowers for Algernon
Contact
Prey
The Andromeda Strain

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140 books

1900s Ce

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Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Smile
Zaha Hadid
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Bringing Up Bébé
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
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