Hour of the Rat
8 best books like Hour of the Rat (Lisa Brackmann): Hollow Kingdom, Beijing Payback, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society, Innocent in Death, Our Tempestuous Day: History Of Regency England, Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography, Josephine : A Life of the Empress, Murder in Bel-Air
| Author | Kira Jane Buxton |
| ISBN | 1538745828 |
One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying...
| Author | Daniel Nieh |
| ISBN | 0062886665 |
Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years.
Victor...
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
| Author | Cordelia Fine |
| ISBN | 0393355489 |
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology,...
| Author | J.D. Robb |
| ISBN | 0399154019 |
The death of history teacher Craig Foster devastated his young wife, who’d sent him off to work that morning with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the Upper West Side private school. And as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids, they...
Regency England has long been seen as a time of hedonism and romance, when dashing beaux and elegant belles played out their flirtations against a backdrop of opulence and style. Yet beneath the surface glitter of the Regency lay an underlying malaise, a pervasive hollowness and sense of loss, along...
Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography
| Author | Carolly Erickson |
| ISBN | 1861053967 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie, by Carolly Erickson, is an engaging, highly readable account of the life of Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender. It chronicles his quest to regain the British throne for the Stuart line.
The book delivers an overview of events which transpired following the overthrow...
Josephine : A Life of the Empress
| Author | Carolly Erickson |
| ISBN | 1861056370 |
I listened to the audiobook version of this. I spent the first few chapters confused as to why I was listening the a biography of some chick named Rose Tascher from Martinique. Clearly I was not familiar at all with the subject. I had to Google Rose de Beauharnaise to find out they were the same person. Derf....
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is about to go onstage to deliver the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter’s playgroup: Aimée’s own mother, who was supposed...
