Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue

7 best books like Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue (William Stolzenburg): The Birds of Pandemonium, Miss Pym Disposes, Slow Man, Here Lies Arthur, Funny Boy, Shroud, Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way

The Birds of Pandemonium

Author	Michele Raffin
ISBN	1616201363

Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. “It knocks me out, every day,” she says.

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Miss Pym Disposes

Author	Josephine Tey
ISBN	0684847515

Having seen Josephine Tey recommended as one of the generation of golden age crime writers that often goes underread and is not given the credit she deserves, I was keen to read some of her work after several enjoyable experiences with Agatha Christie. Miss Pym Disposes is my starting point and is not...

Slow Man

Author	J.M. Coetzee
ISBN	0099490625

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.

He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common:...

Here Lies Arthur

Author	Philip Reeve
ISBN	0439955335

Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard - a traveller and spinner of tales. But Myrdin transfroms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy. Without Gwyna, Myrddin will not be able to work the most glorious transformation of all - and turn the leader of a...

Funny Boy

Author

Shyam Selvadurai

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother.

In FUNNY BOY we follow the life of the family through Arjie's eyes, as he comes to terms both with his own homosexuality and with...

Shroud

Author

John Banville

Axel Vander is an old man, in ill health, recently widowed, a scholar renowned for both his unquestionable authority and the ferocity and violence that often mark his conduct. He is known to be Belgian by birth, to have had a privileged upbringing, to have made a perilous escape from World War II–torn...

Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way

Author

Mayim Bialik

A funny, honest, and practical guide to attachment parenting from actress, mother, and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik.

Mayim Bialik was the child star of the popular 1990s TV sitcom Blossom, but she definitely didn’t follow the typical child-star trajectory. Instead, Mayim got her PhD...