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Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World

8 best books like Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World (Chris Lavers): The Strain, I Dreamed of Africa, State of Fear, Eaters of the Dead, The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures, Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World, The Ninja, The Tesseract

The Strain
AuthorGuillermo del Toro
ISBN0061558230
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of...
I Dreamed of Africa
AuthorKuki Gallmann
ISBN0140287442
At the age of twenty-five, Kuki Gallman, divorced and badly injured in a devastating car accident, left Italy to convalesce in Africa with the man who would become her second husband. Enchanted by the land, they established a vast ranch on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. But Africa's splendor came with...
State of Fear
AuthorMichael Crichton
ISBN0061015733
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea....
Eaters of the Dead
AuthorMichael Crichton
ISBN0060891564
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape...
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
AuthorWilliam deBuys
ISBN0316232866
An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth

In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science--a...
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
AuthorTim Low
ISBN0670077968
Tim Low, award-winning author of Feral Future, in an eye-opening book on the unique nature of Australian birds and their role in ecology and global evolution.

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's...
The Ninja
AuthorEric Van Lustbader
ISBN0449209164
"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."
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This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't...
The Tesseract
AuthorAlex Garland
ISBN1573221090
The Tesseract by Alex Garland is a novel that lets the reader wonder at his own insignificance. It is a theme that's already been implanted there, in the modern reader’s sophisticated brain, by Voltaire, and made new again by this generation’s collective and personal psyche, which is quite enormous/ambitious...
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