This Is Chick-lit
10 best books like This Is Chick-lit (Lauren Baratz-Logsted): The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, The Other Miss Bridgerton, What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster, How to Survive a Horror Movie, Claws for Concern, Six Cats a Slayin', Murder at Archly Manor
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
| Author | Barry Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0060005696 |
About the Book: The Paradox of Choice. In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying...
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
| Author | Nathan Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0805091947 |
Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics.
In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by...
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
| Author | Jon Ronson |
| ISBN | 1594485755 |
In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played...
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracy.
The generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; and they should look for...
The Other Miss Bridgerton
She was in the wrong place...
Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised...
What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster
| Author | Jonathan V. Last |
| ISBN | 1594036411 |
We’ve been told for decades that the world has too many people, that overpopulation is the great peril of our age. Thanks to people like Tom Friedman, we take it as an article of faith that the earth is hot, flat, and crowded—that we are on the verge of a population “explosion.”
It’s...
How to Survive a Horror Movie
| Author | Seth Grahame-Smith |
| ISBN | 1594741794 |
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films. Readers will discover:
- How to Perform an Exorcism
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Claws for Concern is the ninth book in the 'Cat in the Stacks' cozy mystery series written by Miranda James. The books take place in a small town in Mississippi where a librarian, Charlie Harris, solves crimes in his spare time. In this caper, the story is a little too close to him. After chatting with a strange...
Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, are busy decking the halls for the holidays when an unexpected delivery and a shocking murder conspire to shake up the season in this all new installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
December twenty-fifth is right around the corner,...
A high society murder. A spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall? London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventional job—looking...
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
| Author | Harold Schechter |
| ISBN | 1477808949 |
In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana “murder farm.”...
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
A moving true story of American struggle.
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one—where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity...
| Author | Jon Loomis |
| ISBN | 0312367694 |
Provincetown police detective Frank Coffin had been a well-respected Baltimore homicide detective. But when he started having panic attacks at crime scenes and fainting at the sight of corpses, he was forced to pack it in and go home to Cape Cod, where the most gruesome crimes confronting P'towns five...
