The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy
10 best books like The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy (Dave Madden): Cities of the Plain, Mostly Dead Things, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy, Who Slays the Wicked, Falling Man, Cold Storage, Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums, The Unclaimed Victim
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679747192 |
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
| Author | Kristen Arnett |
| ISBN | 1947793306 |
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
| Author | Adam Higginbotham |
| ISBN | 1501134612 |
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...
It's easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or an anachronistic throwback to the dusty diorama. Yet theirs is a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit...
The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....
When the handsome but dissolute...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 1416546022 |
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate...
| Author | David Koepp |
| ISBN | 0062916432 |
For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent...
| Author | Justin Vivian Bond |
| ISBN | 1558617477 |
"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."—The New York Times
Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and...
| Author | Stephen T. Asma |
| ISBN | 0195163362 |
The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going...
Living decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer.
In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets and the...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0743203968 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other American author who has so consistently pushed the boundaries of fiction in his effort to capture the zeitgeist. In The Body Artist, DeLillo tells the hallucinatory tale of performance artist...
| 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...
