Maryn McKenna Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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13 books

How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

Elena Conis

Maryn McKenna

In 10 days! I'll talk to @ElenaConis, prof and author of the superb book, How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT, for an @EmoryCSHH Author Q&A. Thanks to sponsors @GaCntr4TheBook & @SciGalleryATL. 23 Feb, 7pm ET, RSVP for links: https://t.co/ISIncYf08T https://t.co/KVPWLM170X

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Joan Aiken

Maryn McKenna

@ejwillingham @aetiology dear god, I’ve never seen that. But I loved Joan Aiken as a teen: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea...

Paperback, 1987

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

All the Seas of the World

Guy Gavriel Kay

Maryn McKenna

Happy book birthday to @guygavrielkay, whose ALL THE SEAS OF THE WORLD (which will be extraordinary, because all of his are) dropped into my Kindle this morning, thereby creating my own personal marshmallow test. Tryyyyyyingggg to wait...

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Drifters

James A. Michener

Maryn McKenna

@likaluca My parents v v much respected James Michener (many, many brick-sized mid-century novels) so they gave me "The Drifters," which was about... teens dropping acid and having sex in a VW bus while driving through Spain and Africa. I guess they never read the jacket copy?

Paperback, 2015

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

Matt Simon

Maryn McKenna

This book, by @Wired colleague @mrMattSimon, is going to be amazing. You should pre-order it. (Also it’s about a scary thing and you know that’s my jam.)

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Rachel E. Gross

Maryn McKenna

In one week! The @EmoryCSHH and @GaCntr4TheBook Author Series returns with @rachelegross, talking to me about her marvelous book VAGINA OBSCURA: An Anatomical Voyage. 7 ET on 27 Sept; sign up on this page and we'll send the livestream links: https://t.co/ISIncYf08T https://t.co/cjwZm3HIcX

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Death of Cancer

Vincent T. DeVita

Maryn McKenna

@Kat_Arney @DrLindseyFitz @RebeccaRideal @ctimmermann You absolutely need journalist and author Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn (@devitaraeburn) in NYC, who wrote The Death of Cancer with her father Vincent DeVita Jr., former director of the National Cancer Institute.

Paperback, 2016

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Black Hearts in Battersea

Joan Aiken

Maryn McKenna

@ejwillingham @aetiology dear god, I’ve never seen that. But I loved Joan Aiken as a teen: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea...

Paperback, 1999

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune: Book 1

Frank Herbert

Maryn McKenna

Which is more delightful: That Dune was first published by a publisher of car-repair manuals, or that the Boston Globe used to have a "youth column"? (ht @HeerJeet) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/quileute-dune-frank-herbert-indigeneity-and-empire/83A9B64760B9B9F495D5039B2CD3F20F https://t.co/YhJkfkMNs7

Hardcover, 2020

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control Over Others

Lee Alan Dugatkin

Maryn McKenna

Happy book birthday to @LeeDugatkin, author of HOW TO TAME A FOX, for POWER IN THE WILD, a 6-continent study of the subtle and sometimes operatic struggles that define the social lives of animals! https://twitter.com/LeeDugatkin/status/1516774073141018630

Hardcover, 2022

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book