{"title":"Featured on the Podcast","description":"\u003cp\u003eListen to the interview, and grab their book off the MCBC online bookstore. Some have signed bookplates; when available!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-martians-the-true-story-of-an-alien-craze-that-captured-turn-of-the-century-america","title":"THE MARTIANS: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailability and shipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u2028Some books aren’t currently in stock at MCBC, but we can order them for you. Check the Features \/ In-Stock page to see what’s available now. If a book isn’t in stock, expect it to ship within 5–10 business days after you place your order. \u003cem\u003eThank you for your patience! \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLong before NASA began contemplating a visit to our neighboring world, a turn-of-the-century Mars craze invaded the public’s imagination, here thrillingly retold in David Baron’s The Martians.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“There is Life on the Planet Mars” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, December 9, 1906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e headline was no joke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early 1900s, many Americans \u003cem\u003eactually believed\u003c\/em\u003e we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron chronicles in \u003cem\u003eThe Martians\u003c\/em\u003e, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars mania.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the center of Baron’s historical drama is Percival Lowell, the Boston Brahmin and Harvard scion, who observed “canals” etched into the surface of Mars. Lowell devised a grand theory that the red planet was home to a utopian society that had built gargantuan ditches to funnel precious meltwater from the polar icecaps to desert farms and oasis cities. The public fell in love with the ambitious amateur astronomer who shared his findings in speeches and wildly popular books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile at first people treated the Martians whimsically—Martians headlining Broadway shows, biologists speculating whether they were winged or gilled—the discussion quickly became serious. Inventor Nikola Tesla announced he had received radio signals from Mars; Alexander Graham Bell agreed there was “no escape from the conviction” that intelligent beings inhabited the planet. Martian excitement reached its zenith when Lowell financed an expedition to photograph Mars from Chile’s Atacama Desert, resulting in what newspapers hailed as proof of the Martian canals’ existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTriumph quickly yielded to tragedy. Those wild claims and highly speculative photographs emboldened Lowell’s critics, whose withering attacks gathered steam and eventually wrecked the man and his theory—but not the fervor he had started. Although Lowell would die discredited and delusional in 1916, the Mars frenzy spurred a nascent literary genre called science fiction, and the world’s sense of its place in the universe would never be the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, the red planet maintains its grip on the public’s imagination. 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If the heat wanted you, it was going to get you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe heat wave of 1936 sparked massive social changes and technological advances, as well as improvements in health care, and it ignited an ongoing impassioned national dialogue about climate change that continues, to varying degrees, to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with vivid detail and characters as intense as the oppressive heat itself, \u003cem\u003eThe Summer of Death\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive narrative history about this paradigm changing season. In the tradition of Timothy Egan’s \u003cem\u003eThe Worst Hard Time\u003c\/em\u003e and Edward P. 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Once you order, I'll order it from my book distributor (and a few other copies for the future). Once it arrives, I'll ship it out to you right away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e----------\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eColin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and \"zombie homes,\" Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as \"the most haunted mansion in America,\" or \"the most haunted prison\"; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ehow do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eand why those changes are made \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eDickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone, crimes left unsolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, \u003ci\u003eGhostland\u003c\/i\u003e discovers the past we're most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/redcircle.com\/shows\/17f819be-161a-4326-b504-f9fe87e6dad2\/ep\/adf1bc00-ce6d-41b3-972e-3779c168f7d2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen to the podcast episode here!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis was our October 2025 pick!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morbidly Curious Book Club® | Online Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53444983783791,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/3040\/9327\/files\/Websitephotos_244.png?v=1790194424"},{"product_id":"how-to-kill-a-language-power-resistance-and-the-race-to-save-our-words","title":"HOW TO KILL A LANGUAGE: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eLanguages can be killed in many ways: war, the climate crisis, nationalism, and even quiet choices made at the dinner table. 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