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Novelist Joan Thomas has gone back to the 19^th century to find a woman who dug up history but has largely been forgotten by it. Mary Anning, discovered some of the best marine fossils of her day, but watched men take credit for her discoveries. “Curiosity” weaves fact with fiction and the result is a book Thomas calls a love story.

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