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The Best American Science Writing 2009

7 best books like The Best American Science Writing 2009 (Natalie Angier): The Little Friend, The Light of Other Days, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story, Derailed, Fresh Complaint, Written in Fire

The Little Friend
AuthorDonna Tartt
ISBN1400031699
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.

The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve...
The Light of Other Days
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0812576403
When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and...
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
AuthorAndrew Sean Greer
ISBN0062213849
1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives...
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
AuthorDimitra Papagianni
ISBN0500292043
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in...
Derailed
AuthorJames Siegel
ISBN0316725366
Advertising director Charles Schine is just another New York commuter, regularly catching the 8.43 to work. But the day he misses his train is the day that changes his life. Catching the 9.05 instead, he can't help but be drawn by the sight of the person opposite. Charles has never cheated on his wife in...
Fresh Complaint
AuthorJeffrey Eugenides
ISBN0374203067
The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The...
Written in Fire
AuthorMarcus Sakey
The explosive conclusion to the bestselling Brilliance Trilogy

For thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war.

We failed.

The White House...
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