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Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities
Nigella Lawson, Lis Parsons
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Vivian Pinn

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson Riveting account of the Victorian cholera epidemic and the armchair science that helped unravel both the locus of the disease and the means of transmission. The last chapter, in which Johnson extrapolates some things about cities and epidemics, was especially fascinating and not a little alarming. Very well-written. Highly recommended.