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Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.

Her most recent book, GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War, is out in June 2016.

Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, Discover, New Scientist, the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. She serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board and the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary. Her 2009 TED talk made the organization's 2011 Twenty Most-Watched To Date list. She was the guest editor of the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing ...more

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2016 Events!

Syracuse, New York

University Lectures

March 29, 7:30 p.m.

Hendricks Chapel

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Boston University

Power of Narrative Conference

April 1-3(Sunday Keynote)

http://www.bu.edu/com/narrative/schedule.html

Carmel, California

Sunset Centerwith Ira Flatow

April 7, 7 p.m.

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	Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.05 avg rating — 111,784 ratings — published 2003 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 3.82 avg rating — 37,760 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.92 avg rating — 33,694 ratings — published 2010 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal 3.91 avg rating — 25,676 ratings — published 2013 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife 3.56 avg rating — 24,937 ratings — published 2005 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 4.07 avg rating — 2,367 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places 3.64 avg rating — 1,789 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tim Folger (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two-Minute Revelation 2.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
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August Side Read Nominations- First Poll!!

Top 5 books move onto the second round.

Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

by Kathleen Grissom

16 votes, 26.2%

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach

12 votes, 19.7%

The Sound of Glass

by Karen White

10 votes, 16.4%

The Courage Tree

by Diane Chamberlain

5 votes, 8.2%

Nobody's Fool

by Richard Russo

5 votes, 8.2%

Wayfaring Stranger

by James Lee Burke

3 votes, 4.9%

American Housewife: Stories

by Helen Ellis

3 votes, 4.9%

Hanging Mary

by Susan Higginbotham

3 votes, 4.9%

The Dry Grass of August

by Anna Jean Mayhew

2 votes, 3.3%

The Railwayman's Wife

by Ashley Hay

2 votes, 3.3%

61 total votes

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