Douglas Brunt’s The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel: genius, power, and deception on 
the eve of World War I explores the fate of Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the internal combustion engine, who vanished without a trace on the steamship Dresden en route to London in 1913.
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| Title |
Author |
Status |
| The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel : genius, power, and deception on the eve of World War I |
Brunt, Douglas |
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| Be useful : seven tools for life |
Schwarzenegger, Arnold |
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| Breaking through : my life in science |
Karikó, Katalin |
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| Klan war : Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction |
Bordewich, Fergus M. |
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| Opinions : a decade of arguments, criticism, and minding other people’s business |
Gay, Roxane |
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| Roman stories |
Lahiri, Jhumpa, author, translator.; Portnowitz, Todd |
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| Making it so : a memoir |
Stewart, Patrick |
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| Out there screaming : an anthology of new Black horror |
Peele, Jordan & Adams, John Joseph |
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| Starling house |
Harrow, Alix E. |
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| This is salvaged : stories |
Vara, Vauhini |
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| Beyond the door of no return |
Diop, David |
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| Black AF history : the un-whitewashed story of America |
Harriot, Michael |
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| The golden gate |
Chua, Amy |
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| Misbelief : what makes rational people believe irrational things |
Ariely, Dan |
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| Our fragile moment : how lessons from Earth’s past can help us survive the climate crisis |
Mann, Michael E. |
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| Starter villain |
Scalzi, John |
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| America fantastica : a novel |
O’Brien, Tim |
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| The best American short stories 2023 |
Lee, Min Jin |
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| Endangered eating : America’s vanishing foods |
Lohman, Sarah |
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| Gray areas : how the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it |
Wingfield, Adia Harvey |
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| The hidden language of cats : how they have us at meow |
Brown, Sarah L. |
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| How to know a person : the art of seeing others deeply and being deeply seen |
Brooks, David |
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| Hunting the falcon : Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the marriage that shook Europe |
Guy, J. A. (John Alexander) |
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| An inconvenient cop : my fight to change policing in America |
Raymond, Edwin & Sternfeld, Jon, |
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| Testament |
Smith, Wilbur A. & Chadbourn, Mark |
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