The History of Hell
10 best books like The History of Hell (Alice K. Turner): Danse Macabre, Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times, Assassination Vacation, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug, Boneshaker, The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, Animal Liberation, Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, The Witches: Salem, 1692
Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers...
| Author | Arno Karlen |
| ISBN | 0684822709 |
AIDS, Lyme disease, and the deadly hantavirus are just a few of the dozens of new diseases to arrive in recent years. Old ones such as TB and cholera have returned with sharper virulence. Where do new diseases come from? Why are old ones back as vicious changelings? Why now? We created this epidemic of epidemics...
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other—a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been...
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0679722319 |
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greatest practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers.
'Where I'm Calling From', his last collection,...
Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug
What a precious picture book!
The illustrations are wonderful, the dialogue is snappy and humorous, and I think it wonderfully touched on mental health.
Basically the little dudes friend - Stegosaurus - is sad and Rex goes to a lot of dino’s to try and learn how to hug so he can cheer...
| Author | Cherie Priest |
| ISBN | 0765318415 |
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible...
The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
| Author | Julia Flynn Siler |
| ISBN | 1101875267 |
A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom
From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's...
| Author | Peter Singer |
| ISBN | 0060011572 |
The Book That Started A Revolution
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation...
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants
| Author | Ann Hui |
| ISBN | 1771622229 |
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there a Chinese restaurant in every small town? And who are the families who run them? It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included — her parents...
| Author | Stacy Schiff |
| ISBN | 0316200603 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.
The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly,...
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
| Author | Poppy Z. Brite |
| ISBN | 0440217989 |
"Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we're going to be hearing for a long time."--Harlan Ellison
In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can't hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum...
| Author | Richard Rhodes |
| ISBN | 1501105353 |
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.
People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world...
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 1598530461 |
Raymond Carver’s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ’80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness...
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0140294341 |
It felt good to get back in the saddle with rifleman Richard Sharpe! Sharpe's Enemy was one of author Bernard Cornwell's original books in the series. Written in the mid-80s it has all the rough and raw qualities I've come to know and love about these books!
Number fifteen balances the personal...
| Author | Wu Ming |
| ISBN | 0151013802 |
In Hollywood, Cary Grant has grown weary of cinema's constant glamour, but Her Majesty's Secret Service will break his malaise with a bizarre diplomatic mission. In Naples, Lucky Luciano fixes horse races and launches the global heroin trade. And in Bologna, a bartender searches for true love and...
| Author | Carol J. Adams |
| ISBN | 1615190988 |
A persuasive body of research from the past 30 years has uncovered a long list of plant food factors that protect against the cell damage and chronic inflammation that are underlying causes of cancer, high blood pressure, Alzheimer s disease, and atherosclerosis. These are exactly the conditions...
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues
| Author | Christopher Wills |
| ISBN | 0201328186 |
In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing...
The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
| Author | Jayson Lusk |
| ISBN | 0307987035 |
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled...
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
| Author | George M. Church |
| ISBN | 0465021751 |
Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom-produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil dependency. Building a house would entail no more work than planting a seed in the ground. These scenarios may...
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
| ISBN | 0099466929 |
This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata, which proves in the telling to be a very provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused...
| Author | Carol Daniels |
| ISBN | 0889713111 |
Raw and honest, Bearskin Diary gives voice to a generation of First Nations women who have always been silenced, at a time when movements like Idle No More call for a national inquiry into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Carol Daniels adds an important perspective to the Canadian literary...
Magic has a price. But someone else will pay. Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep. It sprouts in tilled fields and in neighbors' roof beams, thrusts up from between street cobbles, and bursts forth from sacks...
| Author | Samuel Beckett |
| ISBN | 0714507059 |
Fiction. "More Pricks Than Kicks", Beckett's early tragicomic masterpiece, is a collection of stories about Belacqua, a student in Dublin in the twenties, his adventures, encounters and amours, that through its original style and wry commentary succeeds in turning everyday incidents into high...
In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains, down the length of Russia and ultimately to Constantinople and the Holy City of Jerusalem.
Drawn into political intrigue he will be the...
Exit Music: The Radiohead Story
| Author | Mac Randall |
| ISBN | 0385333935 |
This October, when Radiohead release their highly anticipated follow-up to 1997's guitar-driven OK Computer, music critics may very well bestow the Oxford quintet with "The Most Important Band in Rock" accolade that cursed U2, R.E.M. and the Clash. The East Coast editor of Launch magazine, Randall...
Sharpe's Skirmish: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of the Tormes, August 1812
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0972222006 |
Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tormes, August 1812
It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French...
| Author | Anthony Price |
| ISBN | 0445402385 |
In the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. But when the battle ends, a real corpse is left it the Swine Brook; and an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of 'Cromwell's Gold'.
When David Audley is called in, seventeenth-century...
The Spring of Kasper Meier
| Author | Ben Fergusson |
| ISBN | 1408705044 |
Watch everyone. Trust no one.
The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, and his solution is to trade on the black market to feed himself...
| Author | Dashka Slater |
| ISBN | 0374302812 |
Bonjour! I see you are staring at me!
I don't mind.
My name is Escargot, and I am such a beautiful French snail that everybody stares at me.
Right now, I am traveling to the salad at the end of this book. It is a beautiful salad, with croutons and a light vinaigrette.
You...
WEE-OOO-WEE-OOO-WEE-OOO! Here come the Firefighter Duckies!
Frank Dormer is at it again with this quack-out-loud silly story, full of wacky charm and perfect for little duckies of all dispositions.
The Firefighter Duckies are brave and strong. They rescue:
Gorillas in chef...
