Books similar like The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

The Sandman: Act III

In Act III, we follow Morpheus on a grand journey to take care of family business. He visits with his son Orpheus (Regé-Jean Page), an act that brings with it profound consequences. Accompanied by Del…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Dutch Shoe Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #3)

Ellery Queen drops in to Dutch Memorial Hospital for a quick visit with his old friend, Medical Director Dr. John Minchen. Minchen gives him a tour, and invites him to stay and observe an operation on…

Buy this book on Amazon

La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)

Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy...

Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout,…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Buy this book on Amazon

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a tea…

Buy this book on Amazon

Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes. There's a Death in the family.It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse a…

Buy this book on Amazon

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Buy this book on Amazon

A Night in the Lonesome October

All is not what it seems…

In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff – gathering together the grisly ingredients they …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra a…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, as the secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Daughter of Odren

Buy this book on Amazon

The Telling

Buy this book on Amazon

Starship Troopers

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War." Everything up…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson’s valentine to his adopted country of England

In 1995 Bill Bryson got into hi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)

Elric of Melniboné is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position …

Buy this book on Amazon

City

Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition available here.

Simak's City is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilizatio…

Buy this book on Amazon

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)

Love can be a truly terrible thing.

Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.

Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his w…

Buy this book on Amazon

And Another Thing... (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #6)

AN ENGLISHMAN'S CONTINUING SEARCH THROUGH SPACE AND TIME FOR A DECENT CUP OF TEA...

Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not be…

Buy this book on Amazon

Daemon (Daemon, #1)

A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new wo…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

***30th Anniversary Edition***

Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchmaker features a unique biomorph. No two covers are exactly alike.

Acclaimed as the most influential wo…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix, bestselling master of teen fantasy, where once again a team of booksellers must fight to keep dange…

Buy this book on Amazon

Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestsellin…

Buy this book on Amazon

Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a p…

Buy this book on Amazon

Sharp Ends

Buy this book on Amazon

Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it.

All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in…

Buy this book on Amazon

Fail State

Buy this book on Amazon

Zero Day Code (End of Days, #1)

Every modern city has one week’s worth of food to feed itself. Then it will collapse.

Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve. In Zero D…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Joke

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first published, and several …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)

An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race from New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield (Andy Weir, author of Th…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

Similar books (30)