Eight Stories from The Rest of the Robots
10 best books like Eight Stories from The Rest of the Robots (Isaac Asimov): The Daughter of Time, Miami Blues, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Silver Linings, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Secret of Chimneys, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, Partners in Crime, The Seven Dials Mystery, Traveling Shoes
| Author | Josephine Tey |
| ISBN | 0684803860 |
In 1951, Josephine Tey wrote her 5th novel in the Inspector Grant series. In 1990, this mystery novel was named the greatest mystery novel of all time by the British Crime Writers' Association. After reading it, I can definitely see why.
For one thing, during the entire novel, Inspector Alan...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1400032466 |
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly...
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
The Lady from the Black Lagoon
uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters.
As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite...
| Author | Jayne Ann Krentz |
| ISBN | 0671019627 |
Successful but shy, Seattle art dealer Mattie Sharpe fell hard for handsome, outspoken, professional adventurer Hugh Abbott. When he broke her heart and returned to his South Sea island home, Mattie vowed she’d only meet him again over her—or better, his—dead body. When they do meet again,...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007122586 |
A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house…
Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing...
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
This is more like it! After the disappointing The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection with its collection of lame stories with no overarching plot and rather limply written characters, this is back to a good story and realistic people.
The main story is about a couple of dead cows and who killed...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007111509 |
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007122594 |
Gerry Wade é por todos conhecido como um inveterado dorminhoco. Aquando de uma festa organizada em Chimneys, o seu grupo de amigos decide pregar-lhe uma partida memorável. Na cidade vizinha compram oito relógios despertadores, com os quais estão decididos a sobressaltá-lo durante o sono....
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0440487323 |
The Forums (David and Polly, and the children Myra, Sebastian, Wolfgang and Ethel) live in a house called Apple Bough, and are a very musical family. David is a pianist, and considered one of the best accompanists in the country. Polly had been training to be a professional singer before her marriage:...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1400032490 |
Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother of the decedant, and begins to wonder about dating a witness. Meanwile, he has been threatened with suspension by his ambitious new chief unless he...
| Author | Calvin Trillin |
| ISBN | 0374525080 |
"Messages From My Father" "The man was stubborn, " says Calvin Trillin -- the second most stubborn member of the Trillin family -- to begin his fond, wry and affecting memoir of his father. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who had grown up in St. Joseph and the dreams of America of someone...
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 0544668251 |
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use...
| Author | Chris Ferrie |
| ISBN | 1492671231 |
Finally, a simplified explanation of Schr�dinger's cat paradox for quantum mechanics enthusiasts!
Have you been lying awake at night pondering quantum superposition? Have you fretted about how to explain its flawed interpretation? Are you a fan of Schr�dinger's cat? Or do you know...
Spawn of Mars and Other Stories
| Author | Wallace Wood |
| ISBN | 1606998056 |
Wallace Wood fans love his sleek, preternaturally lush art, but they especially love the wonderment of his spectacular science fiction. This highly anticipated mouth-watering collection features over two dozen stories brimming with Wood’s meticulously detailed, genre-defining brushwork—all...
Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s
| Author | Jason Turbow |
| ISBN | 0544303172 |
How the Oakland A's of the 1970s—a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers—won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern age
The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative team in baseball history. Never before had an entire organization...
The EC Comics Slipcase Volume 1
| Author | Jack Davis |
| ISBN | 1606997289 |
A boxed set of our first four books in our acclaimed EC Comics Library series, which collects the best comics of the 1950s from the greatest mass market comic book publisher in history. Featured are: Corpse On The Imjin! by Harvey Kurtzman, et al.; Came The Dawn by Wallace Wally Wood, Al Feldstein, et al.;...
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0425165159 |
#11 in my Agatha Christie Challenge
Well, this is listed as Hercule Poiriot #44 and while there is a HP short story, I felt each of these short stories are worth the reading time. As per my usual style, I will provide a brief synopsis of each story and rate thrm accordingly.
1. The Edge(1927)...
