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10 best books like The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History (Joshua Piven): So You Want to Talk About Race, Tea with the Black Dragon, The Lie Tree, The Birds and Other Stories, Avocado Baby, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories, That's Not My Dinosaur, The Pigeon Has to Go to School, Blood Lines, Blood of Assassins

So You Want to Talk About Race
AuthorIjeoma Oluo
ISBN1580056776
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the...
Tea with the Black Dragon
AuthorR.A. MacAvoy
ISBN1585861979
Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's...
The Lie Tree
AuthorFrances Hardinge
The leaves were cold and slightly clammy. There was no mistaking them. She had seen their likeness painstakingly sketched in her father's journal. This was his greatest secret, his treasure and his undoing. The Tree of Lies. Now it was hers, and the journey he had never finished stretched out before...
The Birds and Other Stories
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte VeritĂ ' promises immortality, but at...
Avocado Baby
AuthorJohn Burningham
ISBN0099200619
This is a cute tale of a puny baby who doesn't like to eat...UNTIL...it's discovered that it (the baby is always referred to as "it" or "the baby," so I guess the gender is left up to the reader. Clever, huh?) LOVES avocados.



Just one avocado a day seems to imbue the tot with Popeye-like...
Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN0575021810
Quiet and nuanced, tending more toward suspense than horror, you will not find the fantastical twists and turns that tweak us in present day reads of this ilk. What you will find is Daphne du Maurier's beautiful writing. Atmospheric, moody, and thoughtful. The majority of the short stories in this collection...
That's Not My Dinosaur
AuthorFiona Watt
Charlotte's big cousin picked this one out for her. It has touchy-feely pages which she likes. She also seems to link the big pictures. I find a couple of things about this book mysterious - for example, on the back in big letters it says NOT FOR SALE IN CANADA, and I have to wonder about that. Also, the sandpaper-y...
The Pigeon Has to Go to School
AuthorMo Willems
I can't believe that I was looking forward to a children's book! But it is about our favourite pigeon .
Blood Lines
AuthorTanya Huff
ISBN1841493589
Sealed away through unending centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, he had patiently waited for the opportunity to live again, for the chance to feed on the unwary and grow strong. Now, at last, the waiting had come to an end. Brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto's Royal Ontario...
Blood of Assassins
AuthorR.J. Barker
ISBN0316466565
The king is dead, long live the king...

The assassin Girton Club-foot and his master have returned to Maniyadoc in hope of finding sanctuary, but death, as always, dogs Girton’s heels. The place he knew no longer exists.

War rages across Maniyadoc, with three kings claiming the...
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