Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie

9 best books like Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie (Richard Manning): Welcome to Night Vale, The Oathbound, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, Oathblood, Under the Udala Trees, Black Fire, The Bartender's Tale, The Broker, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

Welcome to Night Vale

Author	Joseph Fink
ISBN	0062351427

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live.

Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great...

The Oathbound

Author	Mercedes Lackey
ISBN	0886774144

Skimmed the last 25%

It started out promising but then it crashed, hard and fast, and somehow just kept getting worse. This book is like that awkward kid who tries too hard to fit in with the cool kids: cringe-worthy and embarrassing. I can see what it was trying to do, but to say it's been done better...

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

Author	Jackson Ford
ISBN	0316519154

For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real.

Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers—a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants...

Oathblood

Author	Mercedes Lackey
ISBN	0886777739

This exciting new anthology includes a new novella featuring Mercedes Lackey's most popular heroines, Tarma (one of the sword-sworn and most feared of all warriors) and Kethry (who wields magic and weapons for the greater good), whose fates are suddenly bound together in blood by the powers that control...

Under the Udala Trees

Author	Chinelo Okparanta
ISBN	0544003446

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria....

Black Fire

Author	Sonni Cooper
ISBN	0671705482

When sabotage strikes the "EnterpriseTM, Spock's investigation leads him into an alliance with the Romulan and Klingon empires against the Tomarii, a bloodthirsty race for whom war is life itself. Spock is declared a traitor and sentenced to the Federation's highest-security prison, and Kirk must...

The Bartender's Tale

Author	Ivan Doig
ISBN	1594487359

From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change.

Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern...

The Broker

Author	John Grisham
ISBN	0385340540

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving...

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

Author	John De Graaf
ISBN	1576753573

affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.

We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book...