The Humming of Numbers

8 best books like The Humming of Numbers (Joni Sensel): Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Underland, Who Slays the Wicked, Killing November, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, The Bad Guys: Episode 1, The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Author	Adam Higginbotham
ISBN	1501134612

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Author	Frans de Waal
ISBN	0393635066

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...

Underland

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0393242145

An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...

Who Slays the Wicked

Author

C.S. Harris

The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....

When the handsome but dissolute...

Killing November

Author	Adriana Mather
ISBN	0525579087

It’s a school completely off the grid, hidden by dense forest and surrounded by traps. There’s no electricity, no internet, and an eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes include everything from Knife-Throwing and Poisons to the Art of Deception and Historical Analysis. And all of the students...

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Author	J. Ryan Stradal
ISBN	0399563059

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.

Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home,...

The Bad Guys: Episode 1

Author	Aaron Blabey
ISBN	1760150428

They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the Bad Guys . . . and they even smell like the Bad Guys. But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that! Mr Wolf has a daring plan for the Bad Guys first good mission. The gang are going to break 200 dogs out of the Maximum Security City Dog...

The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows

Author	Jonathan Strahan
ISBN	0670060593

"An original science fiction anthology"

Truly successful science fiction does two things: it gives credible glimpses into the future while entertaining the reader. With this in mind, noted anthologist Jonathan Strahan (who is also the reviews editor of Locus magazine) asked sixteen of...