The Case of the Swirling Killer Tornado
7 best books like The Case of the Swirling Killer Tornado (John R. Erickson): Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Penric's Demon, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Impossible Things, Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
| Author | Temple Grandin |
| ISBN | 0679772898 |
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible...
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1423113497 |
Humans and half-bloods agree—Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series fit for heroes! Relive the adventure from the beginning with this boxed set of the first three books with glorious new cover art by John Rocco.
The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151686564 |
T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master...
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
| Author | Lisa Damour |
| ISBN | 0553393057 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, pulls back the curtain on the teenage years and shows why your daughter’s erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural....
Winner of six Nebula and two Hugo awards for her fiction, Connie Willis is acclaimed for her gifted imagination and bold invention. Here are eleven of her finest stories, surprising tales in which the impossible becomes real, the real becomes impossible, and strangeness lurks at every turn.
The...
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
| Author | Jeni Stepanek |
| ISBN | 0525951423 |
Oprah Winfrey has called him "an inspiration," Maya Angelou saw him as a kindred spirit and fellow poet, and Jimmy Carter described Mattie Stepanek as "the most remarkable person I have ever known." When Jerry Lewis received his lifetime achievement award at the Oscars, footage of Mattie played behind...
