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The hot zone: A Terrifying True Story
By Richard Preston. 1994
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Preston chronicles human encounters with the Marburg and Ebola viruses, among the most lethal viruses known. He discusses the effects…
of the viruses on people infected with them, and suggests that they have emerged as the world's jungles and rain forests have been destroyed. He also describes outbreaks of the viruses, particularly an outbreak of a strain of Ebola among monkeys imported to the United States, and how the outbreak was contained. Strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 1994.The innocents abroad
By Mark Twain. 1872
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Movie and television tie-insTravel and geography, Travelogues
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Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, "The…
innocents abroad" (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. 1872.I dreamed of Africa: Tie In Edition
By Kuki Gallmann. 2000
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Memoir by an Italian woman whose childhood dream of living in Africa comes true when she moves there with her…
future husband, following a car accident in Italy. They establish a ranch home in Kenya where Kuki is determined to stay, even after two devastating personal tragedies. Bestseller. 1991Awakenings
By Oliver W Sacks. 1973
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A group of people fell ill during the great sleeping-sickness epidemic just after World War I and was frozen in…
a catatonic state for decades. In 1969, Dr. Sacks prescribed L-DOPA and they began to experience astonishing "awakenings". Bestseller 1990.