The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City

9 best books like The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City (Robert Sullivan): The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide, Letter to Survivors, The Underwater Welder, Coyote Doggirl, Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet, The Hunting Accident, The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

Author	Richard Preston
ISBN	0385495226

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus....

Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide

Author	Richard Dawkins
ISBN	1787631214

Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't.

Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve...

Letter to Survivors

Author	Gébé
ISBN	1681372401

In the blasted ruins of what was once a picture-perfect suburb, nothing stirs—except the postman. Clad in a hazmat suit and mounted on a bicycle, he is still delivering the mail, nuclear apocalypse or no nuclear apocalypse. One family has taken refuge in an underground fallout shelter, and to them...

The Underwater Welder

Author	Jeff Lemire
ISBN	1603090746

The New York Times Bestseller returns in a stunning new hardcover edition, featuring bonus pages and new cover art by Jeff Lemire!

WARNING: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE.

As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea...

Coyote Doggirl

Author	Lisa Hanawalt
ISBN	1770463257

Coyote Doggirl is Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of Westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a fiercely independent female protagonist who sews her own crop tops and has no patience for etiquette. A gifted equestrian, Coyote Doggirl is half dog, half coyote, and a whole lot of...

Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet

Author	Susan Brackney
ISBN	0399534962

A fascinating guided tour through the history, folklore, and function of the endangered honeybee.

Featured recently in major national news stories because they are disappearing at an alarming rate, bees are the unsung-and absolutely essential- heroes of the food chain. Now they get their...

The Hunting Accident

Author

David L. Carlson

I reread this in the past couple weeks because the book won yet another award, and I am sharing my review again because I just don't think enough people have read it, and it deserves more attention.

I think I can name four great comics events in this year of 2017 so far, and this is one of them (the others...

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Author	Sam Kean
ISBN	0316381683

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they...

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York

Author	Stacy Horn
ISBN	1616205768

Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell’s Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would send its insane, indigent, sick, and criminal. Told through the gripping voices of...