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Welcome in 2025 with members of your local library community at Bright Eye Beer Co., for a drink and a talk about Mary Roach's bestselling book, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk or digitally via Libby with your library card.
A hilarious and insightful exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For every new surgical procedure, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries from the anatomy labs and pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a plastic surgery practice lab and beyond.
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