One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition
10 best books like One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition (Bernd Heinrich): Rusty Brown, A Better Man, Cry of the Kalahari, Hot Comb, In Ethiopia with a Mule, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Travels in West Africa, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, Land of Wolves, Cristallisation Secrète
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224078135 |
Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!
‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...
| Author | Louise Penny |
| ISBN | 1250066212 |
Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Surete du Quebec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide...
| Author | Mark Owens |
| ISBN | 0618711880 |
Oh, to be Mark and Delia and lie under the clear sky with only lions for company. That is the stuff of dreams for an animal lover. I feel privileged to have been taken by the authors to Botswana Kalahari and given a glimpse of the rare world out there, so inaccessible to most of us. So for that, thank you, Mark...
Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm - a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0006547982 |
Spurred on by romantic childhood memories of names such as Prester John, the Queen of Sheba and the Lion of Judah, and by a vision of Ethiopia as beautiful, dangerous and mysterious, Dervla Murphy set out on a hazardous trek through the Ethiopian highlands. She travelled against official advice and,...
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
| Author | Dean King |
| ISBN | 0316159352 |
A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples.
In a calm May morning in...
| Author | Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
| ISBN | 0792266382 |
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
| Author | Vince Beiser |
| ISBN | 0399576428 |
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer...
| Author | Craig Johnson |
| ISBN | 0525522506 |
The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.
"It's the scenery--and the big guy standing in front of the scenery--that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries."
--The New York Times Book Review
Recovering...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
