Scavenger Hunt
10 best books like Scavenger Hunt (Yvonne Montgomery): Inland, Wicked Appetite, The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine, The Alexandria Link, North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both, Traveling Light, The Best American Essays 2000, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, Play Dirty
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...
| Author | Janet Evanovich |
| ISBN | 0312652917 |
For centuries, treasure hunters have been eager to possess the stones, undeterred by their corrupting nature. The list is long — Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, to name a few. Now the Stones have found their way to Salem, Massachusetts, and so has Gerwulf Grimoire, adding himself to...
| Author | Diana Reiss |
| ISBN | 0547445725 |
A memoir by the world’s leading dolphin and whale expert, revealing the extraordinary richness of these animals’ intelligence and exposing our terrible mistreatment of the smartest creatures in the sea.
For centuries, humans and dolphins have enjoyed a special relationship,...
| Author | Edward Lee |
| ISBN | 1579657389 |
There is a new American culinary landscape developing around us, and it’s one that chef Edward Lee is proud to represent. In a nation of immigrants who bring their own culinary backgrounds to this country, what happens one or even two generations later? What does their cuisine become? It turns into...
| Author | Steve Berry |
| ISBN | 0345485750 |
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Emperor’s Tomb and a Cotton Malone dossier.
Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered...
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
| Author | Cea Sunrise Person |
| ISBN | 0062289861 |
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.
In the late...
| Author | Katrina Kittle |
| ISBN | 0446676942 |
A dancer turned schoolteacher, Summer is still recovering from the injury that ended her promising career in the arts. Her lover, Nicholas, fears she's depending on him to fulfill her remaining dreams and hopes. And, most ominously of all, her cherished brother, Todd, is slowly dying. In the tranquil...
The Best American Essays 2000
Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year’s finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse, very personal collection that celebrates the essay as an independent genre unlike any other. This year’s pieces embrace stylistic freedom...
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 0544668251 |
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use...
| Author | Sandra Brown |
| ISBN | 0743289358 |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences. After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating....
