 | America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $10.75 Before there was "The Great Influenza," there was Crosby. Great intro to the pandemic.
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 | The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.50 Small pox: really no longer a threat?
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 | Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.82 A sweeping history of pandemic, with the Black Death getting the lead role.
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 | Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Kolata covers the quest to identify the 1918 virus in a real-life medical mystery story.
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 | To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire by David Cowan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.00 Chicagoans of a certain age grew up on the tragic story of this devastating school fire.
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 | The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Buy new: $13.23 / Used from: $5.95 McCullough's compelling narrative of destruction caused by greed.
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 | A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Buy used from: $0.01 An earthquake destroys a major city . . . and it could happen again . . .
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 | Stormwitch by Susan Vaught
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.31 Before Katrina was Camille; this novel weaves the hurricane with a tale of a young woman's courage. Brilliant.
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 | Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.89 And before we named them, there was the hurricane of 1900.
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 | Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 by Nat Brandt
Buy used from: $9.00 More than 600 people died in the supposedly fireproof Iroquois Theatre.
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