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10 best books like Briarpatch (Tim Pratt): All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, Pale Fire, The City & the City, Lock In, Gingerbread, Head On, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone, Undead and Unwed, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The Sociopath Next Door

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
AuthorRebecca Traister
ISBN1476716560
A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America. In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine Award finalist Rebecca Traister, “the most brilliant voice on feminism in the country” (Anne Lamott), traces the history of unmarried and late-married...
Pale Fire
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0141185260
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?...
The City & the City
AuthorChina Miéville
ISBN0345497511
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlú...
Lock In
AuthorJohn Scalzi
ISBN0765375869
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake...
Gingerbread
AuthorHelen Oyeyemi
ISBN1984882899
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.

Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's...
Head On
AuthorJohn Scalzi
John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world...
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
AuthorMartin Dugard
ISBN0767910745
What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account.

With the utterance of a single line--"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"--a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed...
Undead and Unwed
AuthorMaryJanice Davidson
It'a been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in a pink suit and cheap shoes courtesy of her stepmother) is that she can't seem to stay dead. Every night she rises with...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
AuthorMichelle Alexander
ISBN1595581030
"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot...
The Sociopath Next Door
AuthorMartha Stout
ISBN0767915828
Who is the devil you know?

Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?

In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will...
Bloodhound
AuthorTamora Pierce
ISBN0375814698
Beka Cooper is no longer a Puppy. She's a Dog now - a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, which keeps the peace in Corus's streets. Beka's natural skills of observation and tenacity are augmented by her unusual magical talents, which allow her to gather information both from pigeons are from...
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
AuthorChristopher Ryan
ISBN0061707803
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science--as well as religious and cultural institutions--has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility...
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
AuthorRachel Hope Cleves
ISBN0199335427
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new.

Born in 1777,...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
AuthorAdam Rutherford
ISBN0297609378
This is a story about you.

It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births,...
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
AuthorKory Stamper
Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made a must read for word mavens.

While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,...
The Book of Frank Herbert
AuthorFrank Herbert
Add to the names of
HEINLEIN
CLARKE
BRUNNER
ALDISS
and other titans of science fiction the name of
FRANK HERBERT
whose epic novel DUNE made SF best-seller history--along with his DUNE MESSIAH, THE SANTAROGA BARRIER, and others.

DAW BOOKS proudly presents...
Not My Father's Son
AuthorAlan Cumming
ISBN0062225073
Dark, painful memories can be put away to be forgotten. Until one day they all flood back in horrible detail.

When television producers approached Alan Cumming to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show, he hoped to solve the mystery of his maternal grandfather's disappearance that...
Realtime Interrupt
AuthorJames P. Hogan
ISBN0671578847
Who was he? He didn't know where he was, and had a strange feeling that the walls around him were stage props with nothing behind. A man in a doctor's smock entered and said, "Good morning, Joe. How are you feeling today?" So his name was Joe?Where was he? He was planting a vegetable patch. But when he turned...
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