Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions

7 best books like Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions (Charles Gallenkamp): Summer of Night, Song of Kali, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, The Cracked Spine, Eaters of the Dead, Zen and the Art of Faking It, Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography

Summer of Night

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	0446362662

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Soon, the group discovers...

Song of Kali

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	0575076593

Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by Harper's to find...

The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Author	Craig Davidson
ISBN	0735274827

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.

Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical, slightly...

The Cracked Spine

Author	Paige Shelton
ISBN	1250057485

In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity...

Eaters of the Dead

Author	Michael Crichton
ISBN	0060891564

It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape...

Zen and the Art of Faking It

Author	Jordan Sonnenblick
ISBN	0439837073

Meet San Lee, a (sort of) innocent teenager, who moves against his will to a new town. Things get interesting when he (sort of) invents a new past for himself, which makes him incredibly popular. In fact, his whole school starts to (sort of) worship him, just because he (sort of) accidentally gave the impression...

Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography

Author	Douglas Keister
ISBN	1567317766

Stories in Stone provides history along with images of a wide variety of common and not-so-common cemetery symbols, and offers an in-depth examination of stone relics and the personal and intimate details they display-flora and fauna, religious icons, society symbols, and final impressions of...