Browsing: Science

A moving true story: In war-torn Mosul, zookeeper Abu Laith found himself evacuating a string of animals from the city’s zoo — including a lion cub and a bear. “An engaging yet heartbreaking narrative that reads like fiction” (Kirkus Reviews).

An action-packed space opera! Fighter pilot Jim’s life is turned upside-down when his friend Kurt whisks him away to fight for the human race in an intergalactic war against an alien fleet. But can their rag-tag team save the planet and everyone on it?

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire: This probing account explores a pivotal 1970s experiment in which eight people, including Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan, entered American psychiatric hospitals in an undercover operation that changed the field of modern medicine.

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author: This urgent account of the 2013–2014 Ebola outbreak and the scientists who worked tirelessly to curb it “reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction).

During a canoe trip, a brutal grizzly bear attack turned 17-year-old Alex Messenger’s Canadian wilderness adventure into a harrowing nightmare. This pulse-pounding memoir recounts his fight for survival. “Riveting… Kept me turning pages well into the night” (New York Times bestselling author Dean King).

When the New York Times bestselling author of Born to Run agreed to adopt a rescue donkey, he had no idea how far he would go to help it recuperate. “Full of heart and hijinks and humor” (#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grogan).