Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (Virtual)
Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this [...]
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Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club January (Virtual)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesDiscover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one―or, more commonly, several―dead [...]
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club May (Virtual)
Zoom DC, United StatesA tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. [...]
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club July (Virtual)
Zoom DC, United StatesOn January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an [...]
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (Virtual)
Zoom DC, United StatesIn 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the [...]
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (Virtual)
Zoom DC, United StatesIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and [...]
