Books like Beasts and Beauty by Soman Chainani

Irene, a spy for the secretive Invisible Library, and her assistant Kai race through an alternate London to recover a stolen book that threatens the fabric of reality.

Harper, a young woman with cerebral palsy living in Washington, DC, is drawn into a magical realm where she must help Prince Rhen—cursed to relive his eighteenth year and turned monstrous—break his spell and save the kingdom.

Batman faces a brutal murder and a mysterious killer whale in Gotham City, forcing him to confront the city's most powerful and dangerous criminals.

A masterful spy thriller set during World War II, Agent Garbo tells the true story of Juan Pujol, a Barcelona poultry farmer who rose to become one of the most brilliant spies in history.

A New York Times bestseller exploring motivation, psychology, and happiness, written by bestselling author Brendon Burchard.

A romance novel set in Montana featuring a surgeon who struggles with emotions and a therapist dog's love for his patients.

A veterinarian's new cat becomes the key to finding love for a father-son relationship.

"The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art," Natalie Angier writes in the introduction to The Beauty of the Beastly. "I have made it a kind of hobby, almost a mission, to write about organisms that many people find repugnant: spiders, scorpions, parasites, worms, rattlesnakes, dung beetles, hyenas. I have done so out of a perverse preference for subjects that other writers generally have ignored, and because I hope to inspire in readers an appreciation for diversity, for imagination, for the twisted, webbed, infinite possibility of the natural world. Every single story that nature tells is gorgeous." . She has taken pains to learn her science from the molecule up, finding "the very pulse of the machine" in everything from the supple structure of DNA to the erotic ways of barn swallows, queen bees, and the endangered, otherworldly primate called the aye-aye. Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preference on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments.

"Take a front-row seat and witness the filmmaking magic that brought J.K. Rowlings script for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the screen. Explore the realm of fantastical creatures that roam the wizarding world and discover the magical cast of characters in pursuit of them.."--Page 4 of cover.