Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkey
7 best books like Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkey (Joe Hutto): Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Inland, Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash, In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
| Author | Blake J. Harris |
| ISBN | 0062276697 |
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
| Author | Svetlana Alexievich |
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style,...
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after...
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
| Author | Katherine Eban |
| ISBN | 0062338803 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs...
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0316409138 |
A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.
In his international...
| Author | Ogden Nash |
| ISBN | 0671727893 |
Ogden Nash was a humorist poet who regularly took wild liberties with rhyme and meter, often coming up with delightful and absurd results. As the forward to this collection states: "Nash is the master of surprising words that nearly-but-do-not-quite-match, words which rhyme reluctantly, words...
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
| Author | Richard Lloyd Parry |
| ISBN | 0802142931 |
In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General...
