The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing

7 best books like The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing (Suzanne Tripp Jurmain): The Housekeeper and the Professor, Speak No Evil, Meaty, The Lost Words, Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer, Squirm, Save Me a Seat

The Housekeeper and the Professor

Author	Yōko Ogawa
ISBN	0312427808

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.

And every morning, as the Professor and...

Speak No Evil

Author	Uzodinma Iweala
ISBN	0062798960

A revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.

On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious...

Meaty

Author	Samantha Irby
ISBN	0988480425

Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of...

The Lost Words

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0241253586

From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world

All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent the natural world...

Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer

Author

Heather Henson

Grab your lantern and follow the remarkable and world-famous Mammoth Cave explorer—and slave—Stephen Bishop as he guides you through the world’s largest cave system in this remarkable homage to the resilience of human nature.

Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name’s...

Squirm

Author	Carl Hiaasen
ISBN	0385752970

Some facts about Billy Dickens:
* He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to run over a snake.
* Later, that motorcycle somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal.
* Billy isn't the type to let things go.
Some facts about Billy's family:
* They've lived in six different Florida...

Save Me a Seat

Author	Sarah Weeks
ISBN	0545846609

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.

Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own.

Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...