The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
10 best books like The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 (Douglas Brinkley): Disappearing Earth, Fool Moon, The Need, The Gods of Gotham, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Why Bernie Sanders Matters, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, The Vital Abyss
For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.
One August afternoon, on the...
| Author | Jim Butcher |
| ISBN | 0451458125 |
Harry Dresden--Wizard
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.
Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would...
| Author | Helen Phillips |
| ISBN | 1982113162 |
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows.
But...
| Author | Lyndsay Faye |
| ISBN | 0399158375 |
1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.
Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he has enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his...
| Author | Shane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0735223580 |
A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
| Author | Anand Giridharadas |
| ISBN | 0451493249 |
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded...
| Author | Harry Jaffe |
| ISBN | 1682450171 |
Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, a vivid new biography that goes inside Bernie Sanders’s contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all.
Vermont Senator...
| Author | Phillip Moffitt |
| ISBN | 1594863539 |
Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Noting that human beings have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Phillip Moffitt has found answers for his own life in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist...
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
| Author | Azra Raza |
| ISBN | 1541699521 |
With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience of When Breath Becomes Air, a world-class oncologist examines the current state of cancer and its devastating impact on the individuals it affects -- including herself.
We have lost the war on cancer....
| Author | James S.A. Corey |
| ISBN | 0316217565 |
From New York Times bestselling author James S. A. Corey . . .
Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there....
