{"title":"Shop My Favorites","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere are some of my favorites we've read for the club, or I've read solo!\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\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable to Order: \u003c\/em\u003eShips to you in 1–2 weeks (processing + transit time)\u003c\/strong\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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When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone—rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople—had an opinion about Lizzie Borden’s guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn’t she?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years. Immortalized in rhyme, told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror, but one typically wrenched from its historical moment. In contrast, Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden’s culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom. Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself,\u003cem\u003e The Trial of Lizzie Borden\u003c\/em\u003e offers a window onto America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its most deeply held convictions and its most troubling social anxieties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/redcircle.com\/shows\/17f819be-161a-4326-b504-f9fe87e6dad2\/ep\/c042cb01-a9ff-46ca-b460-1a50c38b6d63\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen to the podcast episode here!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morbidly Curious Book Club Online Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53444646207855,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/3040\/9327\/files\/120_999f5de6-89ac-4d57-a009-4d31360ce692.png?v=1788811571"},{"product_id":"all-about-allergies-how-the-pyramid-scheme-shaped-america-copy-copy","title":"THE SECRET HISTORY OF BIGFOOT: Field Notes on a North American Monster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable to Order: \u003c\/em\u003eShips to you in 1–2 weeks (processing + transit time)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koozies, car polish, and CBD oil. Which begs the question: what is it about Bigfoot that's caught hold of our imaginations?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJournalist and self-diagnosed skeptic John O'Connor is fascinated by Sasquatch. Curious to learn more, he embarks on a quest through the North American wilds in search of Bigfoot, its myth and meaning. Alongside an eccentric cast of characters, he explores the zany and secretive world of \"cryptozoology,\" tracking Bigfoot through ancient folklore to \u003cem\u003eHarry and the Hendersons\u003c\/em\u003e, while examining the forces behind our ever-widening belief in the supernatural. As O'Connor treks through the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest, listens to firsthand accounts, and attends Bigfoot conventions, he's left wondering—what happens when the lines between myth and reality blur? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of Bill Bryson and Douglas Preston, and with sharp wit and an adventurous spirit, this heartfelt exploration of a cornerstone of American folklore unpacks why we believe in the things that we do, what that says about us, and how it shapes our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/redcircle.com\/shows\/17f819be-161a-4326-b504-f9fe87e6dad2\/ep\/08b4695c-b822-44f5-9215-2646e792ab43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eListen to the podcast episode here!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/redcircle.com\/shows\/17f819be-161a-4326-b504-f9fe87e6dad2\/ep\/c51ffc63-7807-4e9c-9a3f-99c05a6b1628\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morbidly Curious Book Club Online Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53444736713071,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/3040\/9327\/files\/Websitephotos_18.png?v=1788887124"},{"product_id":"true-crime-copy","title":"ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable to Order: \u003c\/em\u003eShips to you in 1–2 weeks (processing + transit time)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are surrounded by death. 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And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? 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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? 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