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7 best books like The Chick is in the Mail (Esther M. Friesner): Things You Save in a Fire, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II, The Lottery, Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Things You Save in a Fire
AuthorKatherine Center
ISBN1250047323
Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it's an emergency...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
AuthorCaitlin Doughty
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
AuthorKris Holloway
Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This book tells of her unquenchable passion to better...
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
AuthorLiza Mundy
ISBN0316439894
In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis.

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small...
The Lottery
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN1563127873
Science Imitating Art

Jackson’s story was published in 1948. At the time, and since, it has been praised as insightful and criticised as obscure. But almost 20 years later, the French philosopher, Rene Girard, produced a theory which has a remarkable congruence with its theme and, I think,...
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
AuthorIsak Dinesen
ISBN0679724753
Out of Africa tells the story of a farm that the narrator once had in Africa. The farm is located at the foot of the Ngong hills outside of Nairobi, in what is now Kenya. It sits at an altitude of six thousand feet. The farm grows coffee, although only part of its six thousand acres is used for agriculture. The...
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
AuthorSarah Rose
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.

In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed...
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