100 Heartbeats: A Journey to Meet Our Planet's Endangered Animals and the Heroes Working to Save Them
7 best books like 100 Heartbeats: A Journey to Meet Our Planet's Endangered Animals and the Heroes Working to Save Them (Jeff Corwin): Hollow Kingdom, Between the Lines, So Long, See You Tomorrow, The Story of Lucy Gault, A New Path to the Waterfall, The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood, The Feather Thief
| Author | Kira Jane Buxton |
| ISBN | 1538745828 |
One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying...
| Author | Jodi Picoult |
| ISBN | 1451635753 |
Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.
And then one day Oliver actually speaks...
So Long, See You Tomorrow
My heart was sliced to ribbons by this story. The narrator, an elderly man whose boyhood was scarred by a horrendous event, attempts to make sense of it all – and to make amends, as he tells it – 50 years down the road during the course of writing his memoirs.
In his memoirs, he talks about his...
The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness. The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to decide to leave for England,...
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0871133741 |
Raymond Carver, author of Where I'm Calling From, is widely considered one of the great short story writers of our time. A New Path to the Waterfall was Carver's last book, and shows a writer telling the truth as best as he knows how in the time left to him. The sixty-odd poems in this collection are linked...
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood
| Author | Lucy Cooke |
| ISBN | 0857524119 |
Librarian Note: Newer editions of this book have released with a different title: The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife. See ISBN 9780465094646
History is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential,...
| Author | Kirk Wallace Johnson |
| ISBN | 1101981636 |
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring...
