Books like Ship Fever
Stories of scientists and the people around them, from Linnaeus and Mendel to a young doctor on a quarantine island in Quebec as the Irish famine ships arrive in 1847.
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Arrowsmith
Martin Arrowsmith, a young doctor from the Midwest drawn to pure research by a stern German bacteriologist, tries to keep faith with science through medical school, country practice, public health and fame.
The Echo Maker
After a truck crash on a Nebraska road, a young man wakes believing his sister is an impostor, and a famous neurologist arrives as sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River.
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Mansfield's stories of family life in New Zealand and England, among them At the Bay, The Garden Party and The Daughters of the Late Colonel.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Porter's stories and short novels, among them Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Noon Wine and Flowering Judas, set in Texas, Mexico and the South.
Open Secrets
Stories of the secrets of small Ontario towns, among them a librarian's wartime correspondence with a soldier she has never met, and a schoolgirl who vanishes on a hike.
The Long Valley
Stories of the Salinas Valley, among them The Chrysanthemums, The Snake and Flight, and the four parts of The Red Pony.
The Love of a Good Woman
Stories of women's lives in small-town Ontario; in the title story, three boys find the town optometrist drowned in his car, and a nurse caring for a dying woman hears her version of what happened.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Linked narratives enter the interior lives of 20th-century scientists and mathematicians at the edge of what knowledge can bear.
Dubliners
Fifteen stories of Dublin life capture the paralysis of a city, its missed chances, small cruelties and sudden moments of grace, ending with snow falling on the living and the dead.
Florida
Eleven stories that circle Florida and its storms, snakes and heat, from two small sisters abandoned on an island to a mother who walks her neighbourhood at night to keep her rage in check.
Jean Barois
Told largely in dialogue and documents, the life of Jean Barois, raised a Catholic, who loses his faith to science, founds a crusading review during the Dreyfus Affair and faces death.
The Hungry Tide
Piya, an American marine biologist of Indian descent, comes to the Sundarbans to study river dolphins, and goes into the tide country with Kanai, a translator from Delhi, and Fokir, a local fisherman.