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Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings

10 best books like Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings (Pamela Nagami): The Book of Imaginary Beings, Alien, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, Krull, Dragonfly Falling, Blood of the Mantis, The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series, Salute the Dark, The Scarab Path, A Borrowing of Bones

The Book of Imaginary Beings
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0143039938
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter S.' with Jorge Luis Borges' 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells'...
Alien
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN2290011150
Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review...)

Now,I was 11 years old when Alien came out. My mom wouldn't let me see R-rated flicks at the time and most older friends & cousins were afraid of my mother...
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
AuthorJudith Grisel
ISBN0385542844
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show why specific drugs--from opioids to alcohol to coke and...
Krull
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0552122785
It descends from space...
THE BLACK FORTRESS raining death and destruction upon the planet KRULL

Who will rise to defend the people?
Who will defy the red-eyed Beast who dwells within the Fortress?

Colwyn, who is armed with the magical Glaive. Colwyn, abetted by a band of...
Dragonfly Falling
AuthorAdrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN0230704158
Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave,...
Blood of the Mantis
AuthorAdrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN0230704166
This is the third book in the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

He’s one of my favourite authors. If you're reluctant to dive into a long series without first getting to know an author, I've got a few recommendations. Fantasy: Guns of the Dawn (Austen's Elizabeth Bennet goes...
The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series
AuthorAnthony M. Bean
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this (book). 
For more than 30 years, The Legend of Zelda—which immerses players in a courageous struggle against the shadowy forces of evil in a world of high fantasy—has spanned more than 30 different installments, selling over 75 million copies. Today,...
Salute the Dark
AuthorAdrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN0330511440
4 Stars

Wow. That was something. After a slower paced third book in the Shadows of the Apt series, Salute the Dark made up for lost time with a frantic flurry of action, resulting in a surprising ending that sets the stage for a whole new chapter in the story.

At the end of Blood of the Mantis,...
The Scarab Path
AuthorAdrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN0330511459
The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease and seeking meaning in a city that no longer feels like home.

The...
A Borrowing of Bones
AuthorPaula Munier
ISBN1250153034
First in a gripping new mystery series about a retired MP and her bomb-sniffing dog who become embroiled in an investigation in the beautiful Vermont wilderness
It may be the Fourth of July weekend, but for retired soldiers Mercy Carr and Belgian Malinois Elvis, it’s just another walk in the remote...
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
AuthorDarby Penney
ISBN1934137073
The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad.  It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds...
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