Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

7 best books like Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) (Dave Barry): Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, Minor Mage, The Orphans of Raspay, Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent, Who are You, Calvin Bledsoe?, The Stalking

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

Author	Kate Racculia
ISBN	0358023939

A dying billionaire sends one woman and a cast of dreamers and rivals on a citywide treasure hunt in this irresistible novel by the author of Bellweather Rhapsody.

Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socializes, and spends much of her time watching old Twin Peaks and...

Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

Author	K.J. Parker
ISBN	0316270792

This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.

A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons,...

Minor Mage

Author

T. Kingfisher

Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day.

He only knew three spells, and one of them was to control his allergy to armadillo dander. His attempts to summon elementals resulted in nosebleeds, and there is nothing more embarrassing than having your elemental...

The Orphans of Raspay

Author

Lois McMaster Bujold

When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...

Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

Author	Meredith Small
ISBN	0385483627

New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But as scientists are discovering, much of the trusted advice that has been passed down...

Who are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

Author

Brock Clarke

“A wild ride of a book . . . A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips--across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all the meaty...

The Stalking

Author

Heather Graham

Dark legends come to life

With the execution of a serial killer known as the Artiste, Cheyenne Donegal thinks a grim part of her past is finally put to rest. Her cousin had been the twisted killer’s final victim, and then-teenage Cheyenne was integral in bringing him to justice. That tragedy...