Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond

6 best books like Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond (Meg Daley Olmert): Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Illegal, Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Author	Roz Chast
ISBN	1608198065

#1 New York Times Bestseller

2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Author	Katherine Boo
ISBN	1400067553

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced...

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Author

Lawrence Wright

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...

Illegal

Author	Bettina Restrepo
ISBN	0061953423

A promise.
Quinceañera.
A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . .

Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved Mexico in search of work, Nora stays behind. She fights to make sense of her loss while living in...

Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee

Author	Chloe Hooper
ISBN	1416561595

In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured....

The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

Author

Chloe Hooper

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs....