Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
10 best books like Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery (Jennie Erin Smith): How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Galápagos, Od Magic, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, The Bitterroots, The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, A Wolf at the Table, Possible Side Effects, World of Trouble
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
| Author | N.K. Jemisin |
| ISBN | 0316491349 |
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0385333870 |
Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441013341 |
Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden's gift isolates him from people--and...
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
| Author | Jill Leovy |
| ISBN | 0385529988 |
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743236017 |
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern...
| Author | C.J. Box |
| ISBN | 1250051053 |
A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author.
Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nontheless managing...until...
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
| Author | Laurie Gwen Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1476753865 |
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.
It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great...
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0312342020 |
“As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we’d ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian personal ads to incontinent dogs, Possible Side Effects mines Burroughs's...
| Author | Ben H. Winters |
| ISBN | 1594746850 |
There are just 14 days until a deadly asteroid hits the planet, and America has fallen into chaos. Citizens have barricaded themselves inside basements, emergency shelters, and big-box retail stores. Cash is worthless; bottled water is valuable beyond measure. All over the world, everyone is bracing...
| Author | Kirk Wallace Johnson |
| ISBN | 1101981636 |
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring...
