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The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Di...

Thernstrom, Melanie / Merlington, Laural
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultu...

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The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace a...

Morrison, Dan / Runnette, Sean
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
Investigative journalist Dan Morrison hired a boat builder, summoned a childhood buddy, and set out paddling from Jinja, Uganda, down the White Nile toward Cairo. Four thousand miles, two companions, and several other means of local conveyance later, he emerged on the Mediterranean. The story Morrison tells of this spectacular--and spectacularly harrowing--journey is a mash-up of narrative travel writing, investigative reportage, and current h...

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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful K...

Perry, Douglas / Berkrot, Peter
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special--worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a girl reporter for the Chicago Tribune, the city's hanging paper. Newspaperwomen were supposed to write about clubs, cooking, and clothes, but the intrep...

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