An Irish village with a dark secret, a piano prodigy, climate change deniers, a kidnapped woman living in a shed, history’s most stupid geniuses, and the unfair treatment of Oppenheimer

Tackling poverty, the lives of wives of strange writers, what to pack to go to Mars, the space race, talking animals giving advice, a not-so-evil demon, a not-so-hidden cult, and a clone of a murdered woman

The rise of HBO, women journalist who’ve change the world, the father of science, a mammoth coming back to life, shipwreck and mutiny, a wealthy man’s unhappy wife, and Andy Cohen’s innermost thoughts

A fictional biography, childhood friendship, Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death, the chemistry of cooking, family witchcraft, and classic horror movies

Searching for paradise, a group of gardeners, a New York publisher, succession, mushrooms, and a murder in the Swiss Alps

Book eating people, dystopian worlds, a murder at a boarding school, and true stories from New York’s food scene

Rural Ireland, stolen bass guitars, mysterious disappearance of planes, true stories of strange sleep conditions, violin conspiracies, psychotherapists, a crazy mothers-in-law, secret animal preservations, and a Real Housewives star

A redheaded prince, a ballerina, a secret passageway, video games, Spice Girls, punk rock, and more coffee

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