A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

10 best books like A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants (Ruth Kassinger): Garden Spells, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, So Lucky, Displacement: A Travelogue, The Reckoning, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane, The Marx Sisters, Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World, Spectacle Vol. 1

Garden Spells

Author	Sarah Addison Allen
ISBN	0553805487

The women of the Waverley family -- whether they like it or not -- are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina. There, an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with herbs and edible...

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Author	Elisabeth Tova Bailey
ISBN	1565126068

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail.

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that...

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Author	Katherine Eban
ISBN	0062338803

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs...

So Lucky

Author	Nicola Griffith
ISBN	0374265925

From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a formidable foe.

So Lucky is the sharp, surprising new novel by Nicola Griffith—the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving...

Displacement: A Travelogue

Author	Lucy Knisley
ISBN	1606998102

In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over...

The Reckoning

Author	Jane Casey
ISBN	0091941202

Described by The Irish Times as "a well-crafted mystery," The Reckoning sees Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan hunting the killer who tortured two paedophiles to death.

To the public, a killer who targets paedophiles is a hero. And even the police don't regard the murders as a priority....

All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

Author	Amy Elizabeth Smith
ISBN	1402265859

"An illuminating insight...fascinating."--Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary

"A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that Austen's world--and...

The Marx Sisters

Author	Barry Maitland
ISBN	0140291768

Detective Kathy Kolla's first case is one for the books. Meredith Winterbottom, a resident of Jerusalem Lane--a quaint section of London inhabited by Eastern European immigrants--and a great-granddaughter of Karl Marx, is found dead. Was she the victim of greedy real-estate developers, or was...

Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

Author	Tim Low
ISBN	0670077968

Tim Low, award-winning author of Feral Future, in an eye-opening book on the unique nature of Australian birds and their role in ecology and global evolution.

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's...

Spectacle Vol. 1

Author

Megan Rose Gedris

Fan-favorite webcomic creator Megan Rose Gedris (Yu+Me Dream) crafts a compelling tale of magic, deception, and wonder in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel about the bond between sisters.

Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't...

Onibi : Carnets du Japon invisible

Author

Cécile Brun

Cachés au bord d’un sentier de campagne ou à l’ombre d’un temple, les esprits japonais, renards, tanuki et autres yokai guettent le voyageur égaré dans l’espoir de lui jouer des tours. Cécile et Olivier, fraîchement installés en bordure de la mer du Japon à Niigata, achètent un vieil...