The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
10 best books like The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators (Gordon Grice): The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, The Jewel in the Skull, Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West, The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices, A House to Let, Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry, The Poison Jungle, The Mad God's Amulet
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....
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
| Author | Miklós Nyiszli |
| ISBN | 1559702028 |
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0583113680 |
Fantasy legend Michael Moorcock won hundreds of thousands of readers with his vast and imaginative multiverse, in which Law and Chaos wage war through endless alternative universes, struggling over the fundamental rules of existence.
Moorcock's heroes of the multiverse have been lauded...
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West
| Author | Deanne Stillman |
| ISBN | 0618454454 |
An epic story that restores the horse to its rightful place in the history of the American West
Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1576467120 |
A delightful meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best
In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1843910853 |
Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes...
| Author | Christie Wilcox |
| ISBN | 0374712212 |
A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry
From the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have feared them for centuries, long considering them the assassins and pariahs of the...
This book broke my heart and not in a good way. I have a classroom and encourage elementary school readers to check out books from my personal library to help kids find books they like. I, and they, have, up until now LOVED this series and I would buy the newest edition as soon as it was released every time....
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0886772168 |
In Michael Moorcock’s vast and imaginative multiverse, Law and Chaos wage war in a never-ending struggling over the fundamental rules of existence. Here in this universe, Dorian Hawkmoon traverses a world of antique cities, scientific sorcery, and crystalline machines as he pulled unwillingly...
