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These books go into depth on very random topics you didn't know you were interested in.

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San Mateo Public Library

23 items

  • At Home

    a Short History of Private Life

    Bryson, Bill
    BookNew York : Doubleday, c2010. — 643.1 BRYSO
  • Banana

    the Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

    Koeppel, Dan
    BookNew York : Hudson Street Press, c2008. — 634.772 KOE
  • Cannibalism

    a Perfectly Natural History

    Schutt, Bill,
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017. — 394.909 SCHUT
  • Color

    a Natural History of the Palette

    Finlay, Victoria
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, 2003, c2002. — 535.6 FINLAY
  • BookNew York : North Point Press, 2007. — 391.64 As252d
  • Don't Make Me Pull Over!

    An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

    Ratay, Richard,
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2018. — 910.41 RAT 2018
  • The Drunken Botanist

    the Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

    Stewart, Amy
    BookChapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013. — 581.632 STE
  • Extra Virginity

    the Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

    Mueller, Tom, 1963-
    BookNew York : W. W. Norton, c2012. — 641.6463 MUELL
  • Flow

    the Cultural Story of Menstruation

    Stein, Elissa
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Griffin, c2009. — 612.662 STEIN
  • Gut

    the Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

    Enders, Giulia,
    BookVancouver : Greystone Books, [2018] — 612.3 END 2018
  • The Hidden Life of Trees

    What They Feel, How They Communicate : Discoveries From a Secret World

    Wohlleben, Peter, 1964-
    BookVancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute : Greystone Books Ltd, [2016] — NATURE PLANT
  • Maphead

    Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

    Jennings, Ken, 1974-
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2011. — 912 J444m
  • Mauve

    How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

    Garfield, Simon
    BookNew York : Norton, 2001. — 921 PERKI
  • Paved Paradise

    How Parking Explains the World

    Grabar, Henry,
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2023. — 388 GRA
  • Rabid

    a Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

    Wasik, Bill
    BookNew York : Viking, c2012. — 614.563 WAS
  • Sex at Dawn

    the Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

    Ryan, Christopher, 1962-
    BookNew York : Harper, c2010. — 306.7 RYAN