A Fire in My Hands

10 best books like A Fire in My Hands (Gary Soto): Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, 90 Miles to Havana, Ooga-Booga: Poems, Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living, The Body's Question, The Road Home, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution, Space Case

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Author	Neil Shubin
ISBN	0375424474

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources:...

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

Author	Mitchell Zuckoff
ISBN	1455530093

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Know what today is? Iowa Caucus Day. I bet there’s nothing Hillary Clinton would like more than a walk down memory lane back to September 11, 2012 . . .



Just kidding. I don’t talk politics on social media....

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0151686564

T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...

90 Miles to Havana

Author	Enrique Flores-Galbis
ISBN	1596431687

When Julian's parents make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away from Cuba to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.

90 Miles to Havana is a 2011 Pura Belpre...

Ooga-Booga: Poems

Author	Frederick Seidel
ISBN	0374226555

From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror,
rage, and desire.


Here I am, not a practical man,
But clear-eyed in my contact lenses,
Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others,
Seeking sexual pleasure above all else,
Despairing...

Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living

Author

Thich Nhat Hanh

Last month I attended a women's retreat. At the retreat center, they had these little cards up all over the building with these great little meditations on daily living. All day, the meditations prompted me to pause and reflect as I washed my hands or looked in the mirror or took a step outside the front...

The Body's Question

Author	Tracy K. Smith
ISBN	1555973914

You are pure appetite. I am pure
Appetite. You are a phantom
In that far-off city where daylight
Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.
--from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y"



Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold...

The Road Home

Author	Richard Paul Evans
ISBN	1501111825

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy—a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66.

Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead....

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

Author

Christopher Hitchens

At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...

Space Case

Author	Stuart Gibbs
ISBN	1442494883

It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.”

Like his fellow lunarnauts—otherwise known...