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Mary Roach: 'Packing for Mars'

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In her previous bestselling books, writer and East Bay resident Mary Roach has explored the often-esoteric science of subjects like sex, death and the afterlife. Roach tackles outer space in her latest, “Packing for Mars,” a guidebook to the realm of zero-gravity for the armchair astronaut.

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