City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle

9 best books like City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle (Bill Minutaglio): Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, Life is Funny, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, The Price of Time, The Accidental Empress, The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Last American Vampire, Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Author	Alexandra Horowitz
ISBN	1416583408

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.

Temple Grandin meets Stephen Pinker...

Life is Funny

Author	E.R. Frank
ISBN	0142300837

From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good...

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Author	Patrick Radden Keefe
ISBN	0385521316

From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast...

The Price of Time

Author

Tim Tigner

Would your character change ...
if you had all the money in the world?
And all the time?
Would you become a better person?
Or worse?

Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller.
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There’s...

The Accidental Empress

Author	Allison Pataki
ISBN	1476790221

New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki follows up on her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Traitor’s Wife, with the little-known and tumultuous love story of “Sisi” the Austro-Hungarian Empress and captivating wife of Emperor Franz Joseph.

The year is 1853, and the...

The Great Railway Bazaar

Author	Paul Theroux
ISBN	0618658947

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local,...

Riding the Iron Rooster

Author	Paul Theroux
ISBN	0804104549

3 Things about Riding the Iron Rooster:

(1) land sakes, Paul Theroux does not like human beings! he seem like a very disdainful and contemptuous person in general. that disdain and contempt certainly includes the Chinese - which was an off-putting and distancing thing to experience when reading...

The Last American Vampire

Author

Seth Grahame-Smith

New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges.

THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE

In Reconstruction-era America,...

Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

Author	Maziar Bahari
ISBN	0812981804

When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison,...