The Best American Science Writing 2007
10 best books like The Best American Science Writing 2007 (Gina Kolata): Uprooted, History Is All You Left Me, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, The Brothers Bishop, Heart Berries, The Rules Do Not Apply, A House Divided, Corpus Christi
| Author | Naomi Novik |
| ISBN | 0804179034 |
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s...
History Is All You Left Me
| Author | Adam Silvera |
| ISBN | 1616956933 |
When Griffin's first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he's been imagining for...
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
| Author | Sue Klebold |
| ISBN | 1101902760 |
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan’s...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
| Author | Julie Yip-Williams |
| ISBN | 0525511350 |
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a powerful exhortation to the living.
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140443339 |
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.
Moving from darkness to light, from...
| Author | Bart Yates |
| ISBN | 0758209118 |
Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as different as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden boy who takes men into his bed with a seductive smile and turns them out just as quickly. No one can resist him - and no one can control him, either. That salient point certainly isn't lost on his brother....
| Author | Terese Marie Mailhot |
| ISBN | 1619023342 |
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar...
| Author | Ariel Levy |
| ISBN | 0812996933 |
When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true.
Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she built an unconventional...
| Author | Pearl S. Buck |
| ISBN | 1559210346 |
"A House Divided," the third volume of the trilogy that began with "The Good Earth" and "Sons," is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising....
| Author | Terrence McNally |
| ISBN | 0802136354 |
The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally "one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest." He is the author of such critically acclaimed plays as Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. In Corpus Christi,...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Christina Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0822362945 |
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also...
