A Rough Ride to the Future
10 best books like A Rough Ride to the Future (James E. Lovelock): Earth Abides, The Chrysalids, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Five Children and It, A Little History of the World, The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
| Author | George R. Stewart |
| ISBN | 0345487133 |
”The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way. Mankind had been trembling about destruction through war, and had been having bad dreams of cities blown to pieces along with their inhabitants, of animals killed, too, and of the very vegetation...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140013083 |
Imagine a world where a little deviation from the norm in physical appearance means burning and banishment because you are far from what God created. Why there are imperfections when we know perfect exists? God creates perfect humans, plants, and animals, so no deviations have the right to live in the...
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the...
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Seven stories of fantasy and fun by the fantastic Roald Dahl.
The Boy Who Talked With Animals - in which a stranded sea turtle and a small boy have more in common than meets the eye.
The Hitchhiker - proves that in a pinch a professional pickpocket can be the perfect pal.
The Mildenhall Treasure...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367357 |
I read Five Children and It with the Women’s Classic Literature Enthusiasts group and enjoyed it immensely. If you like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and its series' mates by Betty MacDonald, you will like Five Children and It. The ideal child reader of this book is between second and fifth grade, with a fondness...
A Little History of the World
| Author | E.H. Gombrich |
| ISBN | 0300108834 |
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was...
| Author | Cathi Hanauer |
| ISBN | 0062389513 |
More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 1476776628 |
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
| Author | Lucy Mangan |
| ISBN | 0224098853 |
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.
She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...
| Author | Gillen D'Arcy Wood |
| ISBN | 0691150540 |
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years....
| Author | Mel Odom |
| ISBN | 1616610999 |
When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping....
| Author | William H. Keith Jr. |
| ISBN | 1616610972 |
It is the future, and while the world has changed, crime has not. When an influential lawyer is brutally murdered at the top of the Beanstalk, a towering exo-atmospheric elevator serving as Earth's hub of interplanetary trade, Detective Rick Harrison reluctantly accepts the case. Harrison's investigation...
