Beautiful Disaster

7 best books like Beautiful Disaster (Kate Brian): The Body at the Tower, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady, Parties & Potions, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader

The Body at the Tower

Author	Y.S. Lee
ISBN	0763649686

Now nearly a full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn is back for another action-packed adventure. Disguised as a poor apprentice builder and a boy, she must brave the grimy underbelly of Victorian London - as...

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	1473680336

How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...

The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

Author	Nancy Springer
ISBN	0399245170

Enola's name backwards spells "alone," and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world's most famous detective - her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, but what can she do to ease her loneliness?

When...

Parties & Potions

Author	Sarah Mlynowski
ISBN	0385736452

Perfect hair, cute clothes, healthy tans--life's a breeze when you're a witch! Even special witchcraft classes Rachel agrees to attend with Miri turn out to be fun. The sisters meet other teen witches just like them--who knew? Everyone's preparing for a magical party called a Samsorta--a debutante...

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

Author	Simon Singh
ISBN	1620402777

You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures. That they exist, Simon Singh reveals,...

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

Author	Eugenia Cheng
ISBN	0465051715

What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for...

I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader

Author	Kieran Scott
ISBN	0142408328

Annisa Gobrowski has a problem - everyone at her new Florida high school is blonde. If Annisa's New Jersey attitude didn't make her stand out enough, her dark pixie cut sure does. Yet no lack of golden highlights is going to stop Annisa from making the best of Sand Dune High, especially once she checks out...