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Notable: No fooling

By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published April 1, 2007

Although today is April Fools' Day, these three unlikely titles are real books.

Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand (Citadel Press) is subtitled Curious Adventures of a CSI. Author Dana Kollman writes about her 11 years working in crime labs, and apparently it's plenty interesting but not nearly as glamorous as those TV shows would have you think.

Riddled With Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are (Harcourt) by evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk explores, among other things, why dogs are doing the right thing when they roll in trash, how testosterone lowers immunity and whether all those antibacterial soaps are making us less healthy.

Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid (HarperCollins) collects the sardonic wit and wisdom of Series of Unfortunate Events author Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler), as well as "selections from his unpublished papers and remarks he has made at dinner parties and anarchist riots."

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Notable: No fooling