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Tom Stevenson. Orsi Szentkiralyi, ed. National Geographic. 75.00 19.98 Fully updated and revised since the 2011 version, this edition of Sotheby’s encyclopedia reflects recent trends in the dynamic world of wine, written by experts around the globe. With more than 400 images and 100 new National Geographic maps, it highlights the regions and climates that produce the best vintages, and each page is filled with information on flavor notes, vineyard profiles, tasting room guides, grape know-how, and unique varietals. You’ll find top wines organized by maker and year; a guide to potential wine faults; a taste chart for identifying flavors; unusual wines, food pairings, expert sommelier tips, and thousands of recommendations. (798/2020)

D23193 MARTHA STEWART’S CAKE PERFECTION 100+ Recipes for the Sweet Classic, from Simple to Stunning Clarkson Potter. 28.99 6.98

From everyday favorites to lavish showstoppers, Martha Stewart creates cakes with bold, modern flavors and striking decorations perfect for birthdays, celebrations, and big bakes for a crowd. Included here are comforting classics like Snickerdoodle Crumb Cake and Apricot Cheesecake, and treats that take it up a notch like Strawberry Ombré Cake, Coconut Chiffon Cake, and Chocolate Pecan Guinness Caramel Cake, plus a whole chapter on cupcakes alone. (256/2020)

D22943 QUEEN OF THE STACKS SET OF TWO SHAPED PUZZLES

Phat Dog Vintage. Galison. 9.98 Why is it whenever we find an intriguing stack of books to peruse, there is nearly always a cat there keeping an eye on us? This queen is an elegant green-eyed tabby, and both she and her rainbow colored books are rendered in two shaped companion puzzles, with more than 650 pieces between them. Because they’re not trimmed to rectangular borders, the finished puzzles have almost a 3D quality—the stack measures about 16½ inches high when finished, while the tabby is a bit taller, at 17½ inches.

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D23148 WHO SHOT SPORTS A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present

Gail Buckland. Knopf. 45.00 9.98 With inherent drama and universal appeal, competitive sports lend themselves well to photography, an art form which in turn shapes our view of the athletes. Shown in more than 280 photos in color and black and white, here are iconic images of Babe Ruth’s farewell, Muhammed Ali towering over the fallen Sonny Liston, and Johnny Unitas rearing back to throw a pass. Captured by such artists as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Walker Evans, and Annie Leibovitz, here are dazzling shots of Ted Williams, Magic Johnson, Carl Lewis, Serena Williams, Derek Jeter, Secretariat, and André the Giant, while the text serves as a history of the genre’s intrepid photographers. (330/2016)

D23309 GAUGUIN Portraits

Cornelia Homburg & Christopher Riopelle, eds. National Gallery. 40.00 29.98 With his resplendent colors and unconventional subjects, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) challenged viewers to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phases of his career. Bringing together more than 60 of Gauguin’s paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, this handsomely illustrated monograph traces his ever-evolving style through such works as Self-Portrait with Manao Tupapau, Young Christian Girl, and Tehamana Has Many Parents. (272/2019)

More Gauguin on pg 11 D23334 REMBRANDT IN AMSTERDAM Creativity and Competition

Stephanie S. Dickey & Jochen Sander, eds. National Gallery. 50.00 39.98 Around the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn moved to Amsterdam, which was the commercial capital of northern Europe at that time. Considered a bold step for a fledgling artist, he nonetheless enjoyed a meteoric rise as a painter and teacher, and his many self-portraits made his face into the trademark of his brand. Illustrated with dozens of sumptuous color reproductions, this exhibition catalogue shows how Rembrandt was inspired by his new milieu, and developed the broadly brushed, dramatically lit, and realistically rendered canvases for which he is renowned. (384/2021)

D26176 A VILLAGE CHRISTMAS 20 Exquisite Punch-Out Ornaments

Pamela Dalton. Chronicle. 7.98 Carolers singing, children skating and building snowmen, a boy and his dog bringing home a Christmas tree—these are a few of the images created by Pamela Dalton for this collection of ornaments, evoking a nostalgic celebration of the season in a snowy village. Dalton works in the traditional folk art medium of scherenschnitte, or scissor cutting, creating intricately detailed scenes from snipping paper. Her designs have been reproduced here in ten laser-cut paper ornaments. Just punch them out and hang them in their die-cut golden cardboard frames. The set also includes eleven golden silhouette ornaments of stars and winter animals.

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D22609 THE YEAR OF LIVING DANISHLY Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country

Helen Russell. Icon (pap) Import 6.98 When she was suddenly given the opportunity to move to rural Jutland, London journalist Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego, and pastries. What is the secret to their success? Over the course of a year, Helen gets a firsthand lesson in the nation’s childcare, education, food, interior design, sexism, and unfortunate predilection for burning witches, and here she shares what the Danes get right, where they get it wrong, and how we might just benefit from living a little more Danishly ourselves. (368/2016)

D23354 PIANOS AND FLOWERS Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind

Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon. 25.95 6.98 Surprising us yet again, Alexander McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves behind some of the everyday people featured in pictures from the London Sunday Times photographic archive. In these 14 delightful tales, a young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian antiquities, a family is forever fractured when war comes to colonial Malaysia, Iron Jelloid tablets help to reveal a young man’s inner strength, and twin sisters discover that romance can blossom anywhere—even at the altar. (192/2021)

D21830 THE SNOW SPIDER

Jenny Nimmo. Egmont (pap) Import 5.98 On Gwyn’s 9th birthday, his grandmother tells him he may be a magician, like his Welsh ancestors. She gives him five gifts to help him: a brooch, a piece of dried seaweed, a tin whistle, a scarf, and a broken toy horse. One blustery day, unsure what to do with his newfound magic, Gwyn throws the brooch to the wind and receives a silvery snow spider in return. Will he be able to use this special spider to bring his missing sister, Bethan, home? First published in 1986, this first volume in Jenny Nimmo’s Magician Trilogy is sure to enthrall fantasy fans 9 to 12. (192/2019)

D21566 THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

L. Frank Baum. Robert Ingpen, illus. Sterling. 19.95 7.98 First published in 1900, Frank Baum’s timeless American fairytale is forever linked in our minds with the classic film. Revisiting the original novel, however, Robert Ingpen has visualized Oz anew, contributing 70 color illustrations that are imaginative but believable, quirky yet elegant. This beautiful edition is an invitation to follow Dorothy Gale as she is swept by a tornado into the Land of Oz, where she befriends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion on her way to the Emerald City. (192/2011)

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D23158 DAVID COPPERFIELD’S HISTORY OF MAGIC

David Copperfield, with Richard Wiseman & David Britland. Homer Liwag, photos. Simon & Schuster. 35.00 7.98 In 1991 magician David Copperfield acquired the revered Mulholland collection of magic books and memorabilia—now the core of what became his International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts. Here Copperfield takes us on a tour of this private museum, profiling 28 groundbreaking magicians along the way. We meet the 16th century magistrate who wrote the founding Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft; the 20th century magician who billed himself as “the Man Who Fooled Houdini”; and of course Houdini himself, with photos of the museum’s collection of Houdini equipment and artifacts—the largest in the world. (256/2021)

D26107 BOB ROSS QUOTE CARDS 20 Quote Cards + Puffy Stickers

Thunder Bay (notecards) 6.98 PBS estimates that 90 percent of Bob Ross’s viewers never painted along with him, they just tuned in for his encouraging voice and positive attitude—qualities that convey beautifully with these 20 happy little postcards. Each features a Ross painting with a picture of Bob floating over it and a word balloon with one of his upbeat aphorisms. On the reverse is an empty word balloon—so Bob himself can utter your message—and a trivia tidbit about Ross. Even better, the postcard book includes a sheet of additional quotes as puffy stickers, to place wherever you need a happy thought. (40/2019)

D22970 BIRDS IN FLIGHT MOBILE

Junzo Terada. Chronicle. 19.95 7.98 We love the stylized animal figures and wild color patterns of Japanese designer Junzo Terada, and this bird mobile has a decidedly mid 20th century vibe. Four friendly birds bob and spin around a smiling sun and moon medallion, and the mobile measures about 16 inches wide, presented on an attractive gift display with clouds and easy assembly instructions.

D22976 HISTORIUM POSTER BOOK Welcome to the Museum: 28 Pull Out Posters Inside

Richard Wilkinson, illus. Five Mile (pap) 7.98 Put the ancient world on your wall with this beautiful collection of 28 posters, featuring artifacts and illustrations from Richard Wilkinson’s Historium. Turn your space into a visual journey through history and great civilizations, from ancient Rome to the Aztec Empire, from the Egypt of the pharaohs to Easter Island. The pullout posters measure about 14½ inches tall. (56/2016)

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XC1712 WINNIE-THE-POOH REPLICA FIRST EDITION

A.A. Milne. E.H. Shepard, illus. Dutton. 16.00 Nearly a hundred years ago—it was 1926, in fact— Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, Roo, Eeyore, and Christopher Robin appeared in their first book of stories, becoming an indelible part of British and American childhood for readers 8 and up (and younger listeners, of course). This beautiful edition of A.A. Milne’s classic is a replica of the first American edition, with textured hard covers, gold foil stamping, deckled page edges, and illustrated endpapers. It features the iconic original ink drawings by Ernest Shepard, and makes a lovely gift for Pooh fans of all ages. (176/2017)

HOT NEW Fall Books … HX0852 75 YEARS OF LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS A Commemorative Set of 12 BestLoved Books

Garth Williams, Margaret Wise Brown, Gustaf Tenggren, Mary Blair et al. Golden. 59.88 In October 1942, the first Little Golden Books were launched as picture books selling for pocket change. They quickly became fixtures of American childhood, and this handsome slipcased set contains a dozen Golden Books spanning 75 years of publication. Among the favorites here are The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey and Gustaf Tenggren, The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown and Garth Williams, I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss and Mary Blair, and Richard D23099 Scarry’s I Am a Bunny. Two books are unique to the THE ARNOLD set: Alice and Martin Provensen’s original illustrations LOBEL BOOK OF have been restored to Katie the Kitten, while Margaret MOTHER GOOSE Wise Brown’s The Whispering Rabbit has been given Arnold Lobel. (288/2017) Paula Wiseman. 19.99 lovely new illustrations by Annie Won. Among our all-time favorite illustrators, D23083 Arnold Lobel was the THE TWELVE TERRORS creator of Frog and OF CHRISTMAS Toad, and he brought John Updike. Edward Gorey, illus. that same quirky Pomegranate. 9.95 charm to these images Originally appearing in 1992 as inspired by Mother a “Shouts and Murmurs” piece Goose. First pubin The New Yorker, John Updike’s lished in 1986, this treasury of 302 timeless rhymes “Twelve Terrors of Christmas” was includes both favorite and less familiar verses that are later illustrated with the deliciously warped drawings the foundation of any child’s language development, of Edward Gorey; now it’s impossible to imagine one among them, “This little pig went to market” and without the other. From “Santa: The Man” and “Santa: “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.” The Concept” through tremors of fear over elves, (176/2022) tiny reindeer, not giving enough, not getting enough, and making returns, Updike’s jaundiced musings and Gorey’s yuletide mayhem are here presented in a darkly beautiful little tome. (32/2006)

D23090 THOUGHTFUL ALPHABETS The Just Dessert & The Deadly Blotter

Edward Gorey. Pomegranate. 14.95 What’s a Thoughtful Alphabet? Amazing but D23100 concise, definitely engaging GOODNIGHT MOON for Goreyphiles. His indu75th Anniversary Edition bitably jolly, keen language meanders neatly, otherwise picturing Margaret Wise Brown. Clement Hurd, illus. quiet, rather strange tableaux using verbs wisely. Exciting, HarperCollins (slipcased) 24.99 yes? Zounds! If you noticed each word in those few When it was published in 1947, Margaret Wise sentences began with the next letter of the alphabet Brown’s bedtime story began its long history of (except for X, of course), then you’ve got the idea. delighting prereaders, but perhaps we could all revisit Edward Gorey created several of these intriguing that “great green room” containing a sleepy bunny, Thoughtful Alphabets, and took the time to illustrate a red balloon, three little bears sitting on chairs, two of them in full—both of which are collected in and a painting of the cow jumping over the moon. this neat little volume. (64/2012) This slipcased 75th Anniversary Edition includes an afterword by illustrator Clement Hurd’s son, Thacher Hurd, plus a gorgeous keepsake art print perfect for decorating nursery walls. (36/2022)

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D23108 THE SIBLEY GUIDE TO BIRDS Second Edition

David Allen Sibley. Knopf (pap) 40.00 With its original publication in 2000, The Sibley Guide to Birds was hailed as “undoubtedly the finest guide to North American birds” (Birding). It became a standard by which other natural history guides were measured, and this flexibly bound Second Edition offers widely expanded and updated information, new and rare species, 600 additional paintings by ornithologist David Allen Sibley, and an elegant redesign in which all of the nearly 7,000 illustrations have been reproduced 15 to 20 percent larger. (624/2014)

D23110 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: ILLUSTRATED EDITION Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

D23097 BRAVE COMPANIONS Portraits in History

David McCullough. Simon & Schuster. 27.99 In such Pulitzer Prize Robin Wall Kimmerer. winners as Truman and Milkweed. 35.00 John Adams, the late David As a botanist and a member of McCullough created prothe Citizen Potawatomi Nation, files of exceptional men Robin Wall Kimmerer embraces and women who shaped the notion that plants and animals our history and changed are our oldest teachers. In reflections that range from how we see the world. the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten First published in 1991, this collection includes its flourishing today, Kimmerer circles toward a central characteristically insightful biographical portraits argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousof scientists (Alexander von Humboldt, Louis ness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our Agassiz), authors (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Conrad reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. Richter), and aviators (Charles Lindbergh, Beryl This thought-provoking contemporary classic from 2013 Markham). Here too are evocations of North is supplemented with illustrations, in a lovely cloth edition Dakota, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Washington, with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge. (456/2020) D.C., plus “Simon Willard’s Clock,” a poignant plea for Congress to remember its glorious past. (256/2022) US8682 staff pick

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES The Illustrated Edition

Peter Wohlleben. Jane Billinghurst, trans. Greystone. 35.00 Much as we think we know about trees, forests can be as mysterious as the depths of the sea, with networks of communication we can only guess at. Peter Wohlleben lifted the veil a bit with The Hidden Life of Trees, a tribute to Germany’s Rhineland forests in which he described how trees can actually learn, the natural cleanup crews that recycle dying timbers, and the fungal communication highway he dubbed the “wood wide web.” His book is even more striking in this illustrated edition; among nearly 100 color photos are spruces cloaked in heavy snowfall, beech leaves glowing orange in the sunlight, a Huangshahn pine growing above an abyss, and a Cuban screech owl peering out from a tree trunk. (176/2018)

D23096 PRISONERS OF THE CASTLE An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison

Ben Macintyre. Crown. 28.99 During World War II, the German army used Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied soldiers, and for four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. Much as he did in Agent Zigzag, Ben Macintyre digs below the surface of a familiar story, and here he introduces some of Colditz’s intriguing characters: an Indian doctor on a hunger strike, a British inventor aiding escapees, and Florimond Duke—America’s oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent. (368/2022)

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D23111 ARCHITECTS OF AN AMERICAN LANDSCAPE Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces

Hugh Howard. Atlantic Monthly. 30.00 9.98 The name of Frederick Law Olmstead remains well known as our first and finest designer of public parks and green spaces, particularly Central Park in Manhattan. Few mention his close friend and sometime collaborator Henry Hobson Richardson, an architect once celebrated as the best in America, who helped pull our national architecture out of the quagmire of Victorian gingerbread ornament and reiterations of the Parthenon. As he did in Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, Hugh Howard again creates a fascinating, highly readable dual portrait that brings out the best in these brilliant designers who defined our built culture in the post Civil War era. (416/2022)

D22188 AMERICAN MODERNISM Graphic Design 1920 to 1960

R. Roger Remington. Laurence King (pap) 19.95 6.98 Much more than just a style, Modernism proved to be a fertile inspiration for American graphic designers in the first half of the 20th century. While discussing this period of rapid change and diversification as well as its lasting influence, R. Roger Remington comments on more than 150 works, including Milton Glaser’s iconic image of Bob Dylan, a variety of Bauhaus-style advertisements, early sketches of Betty Boop, Alvin Lustig’s stylish book cover designs, Lester Beall’s posters for New Deal projects, a selection of bold propaganda images, and trendsetting covers for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair. (192/2013)

D22193 BODY OF ART

Diane Fortenberry & Rebecca Morrill, eds. Phaidon. 59.95 29.98 Over the centuries, the human body has been art’s foremost subject, and artists’ representations of it speak volumes about who we are as a culture in any given era. Profusely illustrated, this substantial compendium assesses paintings by such artists as Botticelli, Ingres, and El Greco—considered controversial in their era—before delving into the increasingly experimental or transgressive images created by Marc Chagall, Vincent Van Gogh, Kara Walker, Louise Bourgeois, Gustav Klimt, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Joseph Beuys, and Andy Warhol, among others. Examining these far-ranging works, the texts explore what art can tell us about our conceptions of beauty, gender, religion, and identity. (440/2015)

D23021 CABIN PORN Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere

Zach Klein, ed. Steven Leckart, contrib. Noah Kalina, photos. Little, Brown (pap) 19.99 6.98 On 50 acres of forest in Upstate New York, online entrepreneur Zach Klein and his friends began building cabins for a retreat, using the materials on hand. They started a scrapbook of other handmade shelters, which became a website, Cabin Porn, and soon thousands of others began sharing photos of their own cabins. Here Klein collects the best of their submissions, and also tells the story of his own retreat, Beaver Brook. Under headings like How to Make a Homestead, Build a Simple Shelter, Live 30 Feet in the Air, Live Underground, Convert a Grain Silo, and Build a Yurt, Klein explores the deep seated human longing to build your own place in the wild. (336/2015)

D23566 CABIN PORN: INSIDE

Zach Klein, ed. Freda Moon & Matt Cassity, contribs. Voracious (pap) 19.99 6.98 With his original Cabin Porn collection, Zach Klein catalogued dozens of handmade homes that stir our human longing to live in harmony with the land again. Here he invites readers inside these very personal shelters to discover rooms of warmth and comfort, linked by the desire for a simpler life. This chunky handbook provides hundreds of examples of what makes a cabin so cozy—the ingenious details that let their dwellers live pleasantly and sustainably. Here too are mistakes and adaptations that reveal some of the lessons builders learned along the way, and heartwarming evidence of spaces that have been well lived in and loved. (336/2021)

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D22089 A CELEBRATION OF LOVE The Romantic Heroine in the Indian Arts

Harsha V. Dehejia. Roli. 34.95 9.98 A blend of the spiritual and the sensual, the romantic heroine in the Indian tradition is celebrated in prose, poetry, painting, dance, and music. Focusing in particular on the paintings of the Rajput courts as well as sculptures, calendars, and miniatures, this book examines what may be an unfamiliar, erotic Eastern femininity. Along with dozens of splendid reproductions of traditional Indian art, the texts included here address how the image of woman has shaped and been shaped by Krishna lore, Sufi narratives, and the hybrid artistic form known as Ragamala. (304/2005)

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D22202 THE DA VINCI WOMEN The Untold Feminist Power of Leonardo’s Art

Kia Vahland. Black Dog & Leventhal. 29.99 9.98 Much as we esteem Leonardo da Vinci as a revolutionary thinker, artist, and inventor, he hasn’t yet received his due for his empowering portrayal of women, centuries before feminism emerged. While recounting the particulars of Leonardo’s life, Kia Vahland clarifies how his vibrant and confrontational portraits like Mona Lisa differed from the rather staid representations of women in early Renaissance art. Included throughout are 80 images showcasing Leonardo’s revelatory approach to the female form and his influence upon Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. (304/2020)

D21070 GRAFICA DE LES RAMBLES The Signs of Barcelona

Louise Fili. Princeton Architectural Press. 40.00 7.98 Barcelona is a place of irresistible charm, with labyrinthine paths, serene squares, and stunning art nouveau architecture. And as seen here in hundreds of photos by Louise Fili, there is dazzling signage everywhere, including glowing mosaics, stained glass, and intricately carved stonework. When viewed as works of art, they reveal much about Barcelona’s culture, and even smaller and more modest locales—restaurants, hotels, farmàcias, and pastisserias—often possess grandiose marquees and emblems, created in the early 20th century Modernisme style. (264/2017)

D21071 GRAPHIQUE DE LA RUE The Signs of Paris

Louise Fili. Princeton Architectural Press. 40.00 7.98 For anyone who enjoys walking, the City of Light offers countless examples of inventive restaurant, shop, hotel, street, and advertising signs, and they hold a key to Paris’s style and attitude. In these 200 photos by designer Louise Fili, classic neon café signs are juxtaposed with the dramatic facades of the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère. Colorful mosaics cheerfully announce hotels, department stores, fishmongers, even public toilets. And Hector Guimard’s swirling entrances to the Paris Métro stations are paired with a large metal snail atop an escargot establishment. (264/2015)

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D23077 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: A LIFE

Roxana Robinson. Bloomsbury (pap) Import 9.98 Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe became a formidable artist, a style icon, and the muse of photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Her fame could have rested on her sensual paintings of flowers and her stylish cityscapes, yet O’Keeffe moved to New Mexico and truly found her style in its hauntingly beautiful deserts. Following O’Keeffe’s early successes, her loves, losses, and her paintings in the later years, Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography has now been updated with a new foreword and access to never-before-seen letters. “This is without question the best book ever written on O’Keeffe.”—The New Yorker (720/2020)

D22644 HELLO NATURE

William Wegman. Prestel. 34.95 6.98 Perhaps best known for his photography and videos, particularly of his dogs, William Wegman is also an accomplished painter, draftsman, and writer, as well as an avid outdoorsman. In this unique and very personal volume, Wegman considers his artistic formation and with great sophistication examines his relationship to place, creatively incorporating vintage postcards as the starting point for landscape compositions, and texts that borrow from the rhetoric of outdoor recreation or invoke the writings of Thoreau. Complete with the artist’s commentary, the texts also include a piece of short fiction by Padgett Powell. (171/2012)

D23310 GIRLS IN THE WINDOWS And Other Stories

Ormond Gigli. PowerHouse. 75.00 19.98 He had a 40-year career as a photojournalist, but Ormond Gigli remains best known for the incomparable “Girls in the Windows” of 1960. Going behind the scenes of that celebrated image, this career retrospective reveals how Gigli orchestrated his photo shoots like a film director. Intimate and occasionally playful, some of Gigli’s standout portraits here are of Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning, John F. Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Laurence Olivier, Louis Armstrong, and Miles Davis. (252/2013)

D22368 GOLDEN PROSPECTS Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush

Jane L. Aspinwall. Nelson Atkins. 50.00 19.98 After gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, thousands made the journey to California, including daguerreotypists who established studios in cities and towns and ventured into the gold fields in specially outfitted photographic wagons. The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography, and the 150 remarkably well-preserved images here include vivid portraits of the hardy men and women of various nationalities who made the trek, and glimpses of the ramshackle towns that would become major cities in the American West. (168/2019)

D23320 THE IDEAL MUSEUM An Art Lover’s Dream Collection

Philippe Daverio. Rizzoli. 50.00 14.98 We relate to the history of art based on views that crystallized in the 19th century, Italian critic Philippe Daverio argues, and so we look to the past to understand the present, though the present is what truly matters to everyone. Challenging this perspective— and guided by his curiosity and personal taste—Daverio examines key masterworks to rediscover the true meaning and power they had before they became commoditized and clichéd, offering fresh commentary on Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya, Ingres, and Gainsborough, among many others. (352/2012)

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D22223 MICHAEL GRAVES Images of a Grand Tour

Brian M. Ambroziak. Michael Graves, foreword. Princeton Architectural Press (slipcased) 55.00 14.98 In 1960, before Michael Graves’s skyscrapers and teapots made him a household name, he set out on a journey once considered obligatory for a young architect: a grand tour of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, England, Germany, and France, studying the masterworks of ancient and modern architecture. Collecting the stunning pencil sketches, ink washes, and photographs from this trip, the highlights of this handsome slipcased edition include views of the Roman Forum, the Grecian Acropolis, and Stonehenge. In his foreword, Graves reflects on these travels from the distance of 40 years, while his protégé Brian Ambroziak puts the tour into the context of Graves’s career. (272/2016)

D22979 JUTAKU: JAPANESE HOUSES

Naomi Pollock. Phaidon. 24.95 7.98 In Japan, it isn’t the house but the land that is valuable; the building itself is replaceable. The result is that the Japanese house, jutaku, can take almost any form, be it a metal pylon, a jumble of blocks, a faceted gem, or an arrangement of glass and platforms that looks like an oversized knickknack shelf. In this chunky little brick of a book, Tokyo-based American architect Naomi Pollock offers a frenetic photographic tour of some 500 modern jutaku, one per page, revealing a dazzling variety of novel, experimental, whimsical, and wildly eccentric residential architecture. “A seemingly endless procession of remarkable facades…. It is impossible not to be thrilled by their invention and sheer originality.”—Financial Times (512/2015)

D20352 PAUL GAUGUIN’S INTIMATE JOURNALS

Paul Gauguin. Emile Gauguin, preface. Art/Books. 14.98 In the final months of his life, Paul Gauguin (1848– 1903) wrote this witty memoir, which reveals his thoughts about many subjects, including his turbulent friendship with Van Gogh, the charms of Polynesian women, and his often far-from-idyllic life in Tahiti. This beautiful facsimile reproduces the first American translation of the journals, a rare 1921 limited edition privately published in New York. With full-page sketches by the artist and a preface by his son, Emile, this handsome book offers a unique insight into Gauguin the man and the artist. (192/2019)

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D23332 THE POWER OF COLOR Five Centuries of European Painting

Marcia B. Hall. Yale. 45.00 24.98 Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained unchanged, but innovations in their use flourished. Technical discoveries facilitated new visual effects, political conditions prompted innovations, and economic changes shaped artists’ strategies, especially as trade became global. In this illustrated jaunt through art history, Marcia Hall explores how Michelangelo radically broke with his contemporaries’ harmonizing use of color, then crisscrosses Europe to examine how such artists as Botticelli, Titian, Van Gogh, and Kandinsky found evergreater expressive possibilities in painting. (304/2019)

D22946 RICHARD FILIPOWSKI: ART & DESIGN BEYOND THE BAUHAUS

Marisa Bartolucci, ed. Hattula Moholy-Nagy, fwd. Monacelli. 60.00 19.98 After the Bauhaus was shut down under the Nazis, many of its teachers came to the United States, where they had an enormous influence on American modernism. One such modernist was Richard Filipowski, a student at Chicago’s Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus), who became a protégé of founder László Moholy-Nagy. “Filip” was the only student Moholy-Nagy called upon to join the faculty, and he taught alongside Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. This monograph at last illuminates Filipowski’s substantial contribution to modernism, revealing a singularly lush abstract visual language in his painting, sculpture, and furniture and jewelry design, much of which had been kept in private collections. (264/2018)

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D22829 THE SECRET LIFE OF THE PENCIL Great Creatives and Their Pencils

Alex Hammond. Laurence King. 15.99 5.98 Since software programs have come to dominate offices and studios, the pencil has become a symbol for creative freedom, stimulating some of the world’s most creative minds. This thought-provoking book presents close-up pictures of pencils used by artists, designers, writers, architects, and musicians. Stephen Fry’s pencil looks as dry as his wit, Dave Eggers somehow writes with a pencil whose tip looks like a primitive pyramid, and Cindy Sherman uses one that looks a bit like lipstick. Also included are pencil drawings and texts by Nick Park, William Boyd, Ian Callum, and more. (160/2017)

Andy Warhol D21859 ANDY WARHOL

Gregor Muir, et al. Tate (pap) Import 12.98 Coming at a time when Abstract Impressionism seemed to have a lock on the contemporary art world, Andy Warhol’s commercial imagery and blatantly manufactured aesthetic made modern art accessible again, and spoke directly to our profound cultural consumerism. This retrospective from Britain’s Tate Galleries reveals Warhol as an artist who succeeded and failed in equal measure, one who embraced the world of celebrity while also maintaining socially engaged collaborations and advocacy of alternative lifestyles. Presented in a glossy format, with vivid reproductions of both iconic and lesser-known works, the album highlights Warhol’s continued relevance in the digital age. (224/2020)

D21835 POPISM The Warhol Sixties

Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett. Penguin (pap) Import 9.98 A cultural storm swept through the 1960s— Pop Art, psychedelia, Bob Dylan, underground film—and at its center sat Andy Warhol. He knew everybody, from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-fueled drag queens, and everybody knew Andy. “This is my personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s,” writes Warhol here. “Pat Hackett and I have reconstructed the decade…. It’s a look back at what life was like then for my friends and me—at the paintings, movies, fashions, and music, at the superstars and the relationships that made up the scene at our Manhattan loft, the place known as the Factory.” “POPism reads like a novel.... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes.” —The New Yorker (392/2007)

D26117 ANDY WARHOL BANANA JOURNAL WITH POSTCARDS

The Andy Warhol Foundation. Galison (journal) 16.99 5.98 “The world fascinates me,” attested Andy Warhol, and this midsized A5 journal (6 × 8½ inches) is intended for the observant creative spirit, with one of Warhol’s iconic banana images in glossy varnished ink on the matte black flexible cover. Inside are gridded pages and lined ones, ready for your sketches, plans, doodles, and thoughts, as well as a large storage pocket and three postcards decorated with Warhol imagery and quotes. (132/2019)

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D23166 MOZART: THE REIGN OF LOVE

Jan Swafford. HarperCollins. 45.00 9.98 Even in earliest childhood, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction, and he lived every part of his life with tremendous gusto. Nearly 250 years after his birth, Mozart continues to charm us, yet there remains something unknowable about him. Also the biographer of Beethoven and Brahms, Jan Swafford fleshes out the composer’s intensely active childhood as a traveling prodigy, his always-difficult relationship with his father, and his phenomenally productive career, to create a wellrounded portrait of Mozart as he might have been seen in his own time. (810/2020)

D23028 LONG PLAYERS Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them

Tom Gatti, ed. Bloomsbury. 22.00 5.98 Do you have an album—be it vinyl, cassette, CD, or whatever—that you played over and over, that somehow got down inside you? The deputy editor at New Statesman, Tom Gatti here presents essays by 50 authors reviewing the albums that shaped who they became. As Deborah Levy writes of David Bowie: “When I first got my hands on Ziggy Stardust, its effect was nothing less than throwing petrol at the naked flame of teenage longing and desire for another sort of life.” Marlon James turns to Post by Björk, while George Saunders has Fragile by Yes. Sarah Perry is electrified by Rachmaninov, Ben Okri by Miles Davis, and David Mitchell by Joni Mitchell. (214/2021)

D22652 LOOKING TO GET LOST Adventures in Music & Writing

Peter Guralnick. Little, Brown. 30.00 7.98 Although best known for his sprawling Elvis Presley biographies Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, Peter Guralnick is also an accomplished writer of short-form musical reflections. In the 27 pieces here, he returns to familiar territory with “Me and Colonel Parker,” a profile of Presley’s manager, while also offering substantial, thought-provoking commentary on such American legends as Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Bill Monroe, Howlin’ Wolf, Tammy Wynette, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, and Jerry Lee Lewis. (554/2020)

D23036 SONIC BOOM The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince

Peter Ames Carlin. Henry Holt. 29.99 6.98 One day in 1967, the new Warner Bros. Records president Mo Ostin called his team together to share his grand strategy: stop trying to make hit records. “Let’s just make good records and turn those into hits.” His counterintuitive model suited the times, while his offbeat crew found outsider artists and gave them free rein, leading to legendary albums from performers like Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Prince, Van Halen, Madonna, Tom Petty, R.E.M., and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Music journalist Peter Ames Carlin chronicles how Ostin and his team revolutionized the music industry. (273/2021)

D22244 TOUCHED BY THE SUN My Friendship with Jackie

Carly Simon. FSG. 27.00 6.98 A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha’s Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. They made an unlikely pair: Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, and Jackie, one of the most dignified yet unknowable women in American history. Here Simon reflects back on a decade of lingering lunches and creative collaborations, nights out on the town and movie dates. Here too are her reminiscences of conversations that veered into more profound territory as they helped each other navigate lives lived publicly, in the wake of great love and great loss. (238/2019)

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D23054 A COMEDY OF TERRORS A Flavia Albia Novel

Lindsey Davis. Minotaur. 27.99 5.98 During the December festival of Saturnalia, Flavia Albia is twiddling her thumbs with no clients. But in this 9th adventure (after In the Grove of the Caesars), her husband Tiberius and the Fourth Cohort are battling organized crime interests that are going to war over the festival, resulting in accidental poisonings, the bloody murders of rival vendors, and finally a gruesome warning to Tiberius to back off. Albia has had just about enough and combines forces with Tiberius to uncover the hidden criminal gangs trying to worm their way into the establishment at a banquet for the emperor Domitian. (320/2021)

D23022 COMES THE WAR

Ed Ruggero. Forge. 27.99 6.98 April 1944: Britain fairly buzzes with the coiled energy of a million men poised to leap the Channel to France, the first step in the Allies’ long slog to the heart of Germany. In this sequel to Blame the Dead, Lt. Eddie Harkins is tasked to investigate the murder of OSS analyst Helen Batcheller. Was it random? Was it personal? Or was it the work of a foreign agent? He’s assigned a British driver, Pvt. Pamela Lowell: smart, resourceful, and like Harkins, prone to speak her mind. Then just as quickly, he’s off the case—but Harkins isn’t about to stop digging. Ed Ruggero’s historical fiction overflows with vivid detail of the era and the enormous preparations for the D-Day landings. (287/2021)

D21502 CONSPIRACY A Giordano Bruno Thriller

S.J. Parris. Pegasus. 26.95 6.98 December 1585: The last of his line, King Henry III of France has appointed a Protestant as his successor, leaving him in fear of a coup being orchestrated by the Catholic League. In this follow-up to book five, Treachery, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno is asked by the king to investigate several mysterious deaths linked to a plot. When Bruno is implicated in the death of Leonie, a member of the Queen Mother’s “Flying Squadron,” he is forced to call on English Catholic assassin Charles Paget and his connections for help—and finds that it comes with a price, involving an old enemy. (512/2020)

D23039 THE DISAPPEARING ACT

Catherine Steadman. Ballantine (pap) 18.00 5.98 Leading British actress Mia Eliot is hoping to make a splash in America, and she flies to Los Angeles for a grueling round of auditions. Instead, Mia discovers the sinister side of Hollywood when Emily, a newfound friend, mysteriously disappears following an audition, after asking Mia to do a simple favor. But nothing is as is seems, and in this novel by Catherine Steadman—an actress whose credits include Downton Abbey—nothing prepares Mia for a startling truth: In a city where dreams really do come true, nightmares can follow. (298/2021)

D21310 FATAL FAMILY TIES An Ancestry Detective Mystery

S.C. Perkins. Minotaur. 26.99 5.98 Sitting down to dinner at her favorite Austin taco joint, Lucy Lancaster isn’t glad at all to see her former co-worker, Camilla Braithwaite, in this third outing (after Lineage Most Lethal). Camilla’s ancestor, a civil war corporal, has been tarred as a phony and a deserter, and she wants Lucy’s help clearing his name. Lucy reluctantly agrees to help, but it gets very complicated when a member of the Brathwaite family is murdered, and a triptych painting belonging to them has had two panels stolen. There are no shortage of suspects—including Camilla herself—and this case will take Lucy to Houston and back again as she works to catch an elusive killer. (326/2021)

D23117 THE FORGER’S DAUGHTER

Bradford Morrow. Grove. 26.00 6.98 When a scream shatters the summer night outside their country house in the Hudson Valley, reformed literary forger Will and his wife find their daughter Maisie bloodied, holding a parcel her attacker demanded she present to her father. Inside is a literary rarity the likes of which few have ever handled, part of a plot to counterfeit the rarest book in American literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s first, Tamerlane. Facing threats to his life and family, coerced by his former nemesis and fellow forger Henry Slader, Will must rely on the artistic skills of his older daughter Nicole to help create a flawless forgery of this Holy Grail of American letters. (288/2020)

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D23019 THE ART OF DECEPTION A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

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D23014 A LINE TO KILL

Anthony Horowitz. HarperCollins. 27.99 6.98 Arriving on the English Leonard Goldberg. island of Alderney for a litMinotaur (pap) 17.99 5.98 erary festival, Ex-Detective In the west end of London, Inspector Daniel a crazed individual is breakHawthorne and his sidekick, ing into art galleries and priauthor Anthony Horowitz, vate homes to slash valuable soon meet the other guests: paintings of women. Despite a bestselling children’s Scotland Yard’s best efforts, author, a French poet, a TV the criminal remains at large and continues on his chef, a blind psychic, and destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are a war historian—along with a group of ornery locals called in to solve the mystery—their fourth, on the feuding over a disruptive power line. When a local heels of The Disappearance of Alastair Ainsworth—they grandee is found dead, Hawthorne and Horowitz conclude that the slasher is searching for something become embroiled in their third case, after The Sentence hidden behind the portraits. After two suspects are killed, Joanna forms a plan for ensnaring the criminal Is Death. The island is locked down, no one is allowed before more lives are lost. (306/2021) on or off, and it soon becomes horribly clear that a murderer lurks in their midst. But who? (375/2021)

D23037 THE ABDUCTION OF PRETTY PENNY A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Leonard Goldberg. Minotaur. 26.99 6.98 Even as Joanna Watson searches for the missing actress, Pretty Penny, she is asked by Scotland Yard to join in the hunt for a vicious murderer whose method resembles that of Jack the Ripper. But in this fifth case (following The Art of Deception), as Joanna concludes that the killer has abducted the actress, she receives a letter indicating her young son Johnny will be the next to die. Time is running out, and Joanna has no choice but to devise a most dangerous plan which will protect her son, rescue Pretty Penny—and bring her face-to-face with the killer. (338/2021)

D23049 HANDBOOK FOR HOMICIDE

Lorna Barrett. Berkley. 26.00 5.98 When Tricia Miles’s assistant manager, Pixie, finds homeless vet Susan Morris’s body behind the bookstore, Pixie’s checkered past makes her the prime suspect. Tricia sets out to clear Pixie’s name armed with only an anchor insignia earring found at the scene of the crime. As Tricia digs deeper, she discovers Susan was involved in a scandal right before retiring from the Navy. With family drama brewing in the background and all of Stoneham convinced her manager is a murderer, Tricia knows she has to get to the bottom of the case—her 14th, after A Killer Edition—before Pixie is sunk. (320/2020)

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D21633 MOONFLOWER MURDERS

Anthony Horowitz. HarperCollins. 28.99 6.98 Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life, running a small hotel on a Greek island with her boyfriend, although truth be told she’s beginning to miss London. When the Trehearnes come to stay, they tell of a murder from years ago, that took place on their daughter Cecily’s wedding day, at the same picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast. One of Susan’s former writers, the late Alan Conway, had based a novel on that crime, and Cecily believes that the book could crack the case. After Cecily disappears, truth and fiction overlap dangerously, and in this follow-up to Magpie Murders, Susan must return to England and find out what really happened. (357/2020)

D23150 JACKRABBIT SMILE A Hap and Leonard Novel

Joe R. Lansdale. Mulholland (pap) 15.99 4.98 Hap Collins is celebrating his wedding to his longtime girlfriend when their backyard barbecue is interrupted by a couple of Pentecostal white supremacists. They’re not too happy to see Hap’s African American partner Leonard, and no one is happy to see them, but they have a problem and only Hap and Leonard will take on such a thankless task. Judith Mulhaney’s daughter, Jackrabbit, has been missing for five years, and now she has truly fallen off the map. Despite their misgivings, Hap and Leonard take the case—their 11th, after Rusty Puppy. It isn’t long until they find themselves mixed up in a cult that believes Jesus will return flanked by an army of lizard-men, and solving a murder to boot. (272/2019)

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D23025 JANE AUSTEN’S LOST LETTERS A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery

Jane K. Cleland. Minotaur. 26.99 6.98 Antiques appraiser Josie Prescott is in the midst of filming a segment for her new television show when an elegant older woman comes to see her. Veronica Sutton introduces herself as an old friend of Josie’s father, and leaves her a parcel containing two previously unknown letters by Jane Austen. In this 14th outing (after Hidden Treasure), Josie sets off to learn what Veronica knows about her father and to discover whether the letters are real. As she draws close to the truth, she finds that some people will do anything to keep a secret—even kill. (288/2021)

D23026 KILL ALL YOUR DARLINGS

David Bell. Berkley (pap) 17.00 5.98 After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman. There’s just one problem: Connor didn’t write the book—his missing student did. And then she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, threatening to expose him. Worse yet, the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder. Now Connor must admit he didn’t write the book and lose his job or keep up the lie and risk everything. When another murder occurs, Connor can clear his name by unraveling the horrifying secrets buried in his student’s manuscript. (405/2021)

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D23016 A ROYAL AFFAIR A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery

Allison Montclair. Minotaur. 26.99 5.98 In 1946 London, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office. The ladies are contacted by Gwen’s cousin, Lady Matheson, who discreetly informs them that Princess Elizabeth has developed feelings for a dashing Greek prince, but now a blackmail note has arrived, alluding to some potentially damaging information about said prince. Iris and Gwen are asked to find out what secrets lurk in the prince’s past, before his engagement to the future Queen of England is announced, and in this follow-up to The Right Sort of Man, the integrity of the Empire is at stake. (320/2020)

D21936 A ROGUE’S COMPANY A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery

Allison Montclair. Minotaur. 26.99 5.98 In 1946 London, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet, and Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are making a go of it. Then, the widowed Gwen’s father-in-law and legal guardian returns and threatens to undo everything important to her, even sending her six-year-old son away to a boarding school. A rather suspicious new client shows up at the agency, and soon a murder and kidnapping sends Sparks to seek help from a dangerous quarter. In this third outing for the duo (following A Royal Affair), these ladies’ very survival is at stake. (337/2021)

D23050 MURDER IS A MUST

Marty Wingate. Berkley. 26.00 5.98 Settling into her position at Sarah Stewart Taylor. the First Edition Library in Minotaur. 27.99 6.98 Middlebank House, Hayley Twenty-three years ago, Burke is preparing for an exhiMaggie D’arcy’s family was bition and decides, against her contacted by the Dublin better judgement, to hire her Gardaí—her cousin Erin difficult former boss, Oona had gone missing. Maggie Atherton, to help with the herself spent weeks in planning. As they search for a priceless book that may Ireland, working alongside be somewhere in the library, Oona winds up dead at the police to track Erin’s the bottom of the stairs. Did her discovery of the movements, but no trace was ever found. Now rare book get her killed or was it some angry shadow Maggie is a cop on Long Island, a divorced mother from her past? In this sequel to The Bodies in the of a teenager, when the Gardaí call again to say that Library, Hayley must read between the lines to catch a Erin’s scarf has just been found, and another young (336/2020) woman has gone missing. In this series debut, Maggie malicious murderer. returns to Ireland, and she will have a lot to contend with if she is to finally solve the mystery that has haunted her all these years. “The atmospheric, intricately plotted story builds to a stunning, unforgettable conclusion.”—Library Journal (407/2020)

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D23015 A PECULIAR COMBINATION

Johanna Mo. Ashley Weaver. Penguin (pap) 17.00 5.98 Minotaur. 26.99 5.98 After her father’s murder As Britain’s economy takes conviction, police deteca hard hit in World War II, tive Hannah Duncker didn’t Ellie McDonnell and her expect to return to her native family earn their living by Öland, but she must make burglarizing the homes of peace with her shame. Now the wealthy. When Electra she has a new job with the and her Uncle Mick are local police and a nosy new partner. A 15-year-old’s caught red-handed, Major death catapults her into a murder investigation that Ramsey has an offer: either resurrects ghosts from her previous life. Not all Ellie agrees to help him are pleased to see her back home, and in this series break into a safe and retrieve blueprints crucial to the debut by Sweden’s Johanna Mo, Hannah soon British war effort, or he turns her over to the police. In learns that digging through the past comes with consequences. (437/2021) her debut outing, Ellie agrees, but when she later finds a German spy dead, she and Major Ramsey are forced to put aside their differences to unmask the double agent, and stop Allied plans from falling into enemy hands. (296/2021)

D21027 ONLY TO SLEEP A Philip Marlowe Novel

Lawrence Osborne. Hogarth. 26.00 5.98 In 1988 Baja California, 72-year-old Philip Marlowe is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel, sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silvertipped cane at the ready. One day, two men dressed like undertakers saunter in with a case that has his name written all over it. For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Zinn—supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife. But in this Edgar Award nominated homage to Raymond Chandler, is Zinn even dead? Or is something stranger going on? (272/2018)

D23031 PALACE OF THE DROWNED

Christine Mangan. Flatiron (pap) 17.99 5.98 Years have passed since the initial success of Frankie Croy’s debut novel and she has spent her career trying to live up to the expectations. To recharge and get re-inspired, Frankie retreats to her friend’s vacant palazzo in Venice, where she meets Gilly, a precocious young admirer eager to make friends. But there’s something about the young woman that gives Frankie pause. How much of what Gilly tells her is the truth? As a series of lies and revelations emerge, the lives of these two women will be tragically altered as the catastrophic 1966 flooding of Venice ravages the city. (306/2022)

D23042 THE SAINT OF WOLVES AND BUTCHERS

Alex Grecian. Putnam (pap) 17.00 5.98 Arriving in Kansas, Travis Roan is on the trail of a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the U.S. under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified. In this “breathtaking thriller” (Booklist), Roan quickly learns that Goodman has powerful friends who will go to any lengths to protect him; what he doesn’t know is that the Nazi has continued his diabolical work, amassing a congregation of followers who believe he possesses godlike powers. Caught between these men is Kansas State Trooper Skottie Foster, an African American cop who must find a way to keep peace in her district—until she realizes the struggle between Roan and Goodman will put her family in grave peril. (388/2020)

D23043 THE SECRETS OF BONES

Kylie Logan. Minotaur. 26.99 5.98 On career day at a school, Jazz Ramsey has signed up to talk to the girls about her lifelong passion: cadaver dog training. Her new puppy hasn’t been certified yet, so she borrows the fully-trained Gus from a friend. But in this sequel to The Scent of Murder, Gus sniffs out some bones no one knew about—a skeleton hidden behind a disused door. Jazz recognizes the necklace the skeleton is wearing, and that it belonged to Bernadette Quinn, a teacher at the school who’d quit her job abruptly one Christmas break. Now it seems clear: this was murder, and there are quite a few people who wanted this difficult lady to take a permanent sabbatical. (323/2020)

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D22965 THE YEAR OF THE GUN An Irregular Spy Thriller

H.B. Lyle. Quercus. 26.99 6.98 Released from the Secret Service in 1912, Wiggins sails for New York to find his lost lover, Bela. But after an altercation onboard, he finds himself in Dublin, where he falls in with gangster Patrick O’Connell and is soon driving the boss’s girlfriend Molly around town. She wants O’Connell to support the Irish nationalists—a cause needing guns to defeat the British—and they head to America to find them. In this third book in the series (after The Red Ribbon), Wiggins not only gets his chance to solve the mystery of Bela, he also crosses paths with his old mentor, Sherlock Holmes. (256/2020)

D23149 THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA An Arkady Renko Novel

D23017 A THOUSAND STEPS

T. Jefferson Parker. Forge. 27.99 6.98 Martin Cruz Smith. Three time Edgar winner Simon & Schuster. T. Jefferson Parker takes us 27.00 6.98 back to the turbulent times Journalist Tatiana Petrovna of 1968, in a coming-of-age is always on the move, but story with a mystery at its when she doesn’t arrive on center. Matt Anthony is a her scheduled train, her teenager just trying to get lover Arkady Renko—the by in Laguna Beach, a little iconic Moscow investigacoastal town that has become tor—is positive something a hippie enclave. His mom’s on drugs, his dad is a is wrong. Knowing what sort of enemies Tatiana dead-beat, and his brother is fighting in Viet Nam. has made, Renko embarks on a dangerous mission But after his big sister Jazz goes missing, and the cops to Lake Baikal to bring her back. Renko learns that figure she’s just another runaway hippie, Matt realizes Tatiana has been profiling political dissident Mikhail it’s up to him to find her. Kuznetsov, a true threat to Putin’s rule. Though “[Parker’s] crowning achievement. It’s a great story Kuznetsov seems like the perfect candidate to take and a nuanced look at the nation in 1968, and above on the corruption in Russian politics, his reputation all it proves no one inhabits character as completely becomes clouded when his business partner turns and intensely—Matt Anthony is a changing boy in a up dead. In a land of shamans, oligarchs, and sea changing time, and you won’t ever forget him.” monsters that are said to prowl the deepest lake in —Lee Child (358/2021) the world, Renko needs all his wits about him to get Tatiana out alive. (288/2019) D22801

D23035 SILENT PARADE A Detective Galileo Novel

TO COOK A BEAR

Mikael Niemi. Deborah Bragan-Turner, trans. Penguin (pap) 18.00 5.98 A Sunday Times Best Book Keigo Higashino. of the Year and a finalist for Minotaur. 27.99 6.98 the CWA Crime Fiction in A man has been arrested Translation Award, this fantasfor killing a girl, but when tic tale is set in the far north he isn’t indicted, he returns of Sweden in 1852. Jussi, a to mock the girl’s family. As runaway Sami boy, becomes a Chief Inspector Kusanagi son and disciple to the famous pastor Laestadius, and of Tokyo’s Homicide the two set out on botanical treks and philosophical Division knows, however, discussions. When a maid is found dead in the forest, the same man was accused the constable places a bounty on a predatory bear, but of a similar crime two decades ago, but got away Jussi and the pastor find evidence of a more sinister scot-free. During a parade, the suspected killer dies killer. After another attack, they track the murderer, unexpectedly, but the people with all the best motives unaware that Laestadius himself is vulnerable. have rock solid alibis. In this fourth case (after A “This wonderfully idiosyncratic novel from Sweden Midsummer’s Equation), Kusanagi turns once again to his … is not only a riveting, psychologically astute myscollege friend, physics professor Manabu Yukawa— tery but also a work of history, natural history, and known as Detective Galileo—to help solve the string religion…. It is not to be missed.” of impossible-to-prove murders. (344/2021) —Booklist (starred review) (426/2021)

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Really comic, really tragic, bracingly unsentimental…. What joy!” —Boston Sunday Globe D23020 BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM

Kate Atkinson. Picador (pap) 18.00 5.98 Living in working-class Yorkshire, Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the 20th century. As she chronicles the lives of six generations of women in her family, Ruby will become privy to startling connections and deeply buried secrets. Launching a brilliant career, Kate Atkinson’s 1995 novel won her the Whitbread Book of the Year, and it was praised by the NYTBR as “one of the funniest works of fiction to come out of Britain in years.” (336/2020)

D23056 AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK

David Diop. Anna Moschovakis, trans. FSG. 25.00 6.98 Having never left his Senegalese village before, Alfa Ndiaye is drafted into the French army during World War I. When his friend is fatally injured in battle, Alfa refuses to kill him and spare him an agonizing death in No Man’s Land. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, Alfa begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to murder a blue-eyed German soldier. In this winner of the International Booker Prize, admiration for Alfa turns to dread, as his comrades realize that he is a man possessed. (160/2020)

D22768 THE BELL IN THE LAKE

Lars Mytting. Deborah Dawkin, trans. Overlook. 27.00 5.98 As long as people could remember, the bells in the old stave church had rung out over the remote Norwegian village of Butangen, and were said to sound on their own in times of danger. In 1879, pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village. Young Astrid Hekne sees a way out of her traditional life on the arm of this new pastor, while Kai needs a tie to the community to bolster his plan for the church, with its pagan effigies and magical bells. But when he brings a German architect into their world, the village and Astrid are caught between ancient faith and modern progress—and then the bells begin to ring. “[Lars] Mytting has created something beautiful, a perfect evocation of a place and a culture…. This first in a trilogy will have readers eagerly awaiting the next by this accomplished author.”—Booklist (391/2020)

D23038 THE BOOKSHOP OF THE BROKEN HEARTED

Robert Hillman. Putnam (pap) 17.00 5.98 It is 1968 in rural Australia, and lonely Tom Hope can’t make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he’s ever met—she’s passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown’s first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife, Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy. But Hannah is a haunted woman, and her experiences during the war could make contentment impossible for both of them. (305/2020)

D23064 THE BRILLIANT LIFE OF EUDORA HONEYSETT

Annie Lyons. William Morrow. 26.99 5.98 At 85, Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world, and she isn’t going to leave things to chance. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose, and they embark on a series of adventures with their neighbor, the recently widowed Stanley. While the trio of unlikely BFFs grow closer, Eudora is reminded of her own childhood—of losing her father during World War II and the impact it had on her entire family. In reflecting on her past and also finding new joy, Eudora realizes she must come to terms with what lies ahead. (372/2020)

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D22724 CIVILIZATIONS

Laurent Binet. FSG. 27.00 6.98 Leading a band of Viking explorers setting out to the south, the woman warrior Freydis and her crew get as far as Panama, but nobody ultimately knows what became of them. Centuries afterward, Christopher Columbus is taken captive by Incas. Thirty years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe in the ships stolen from Columbus. He finds a continent divided by religious and dynastic quarrels, and downtrodden populations ready for revolution. In this alternate history by the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist HHhH, the stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and Aztecs. (310/2021)

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D22925 THE HOURS

Emily Nemens. Michael Cunningham. Picador (pap) 17.00 5.98 Picador. 16.00 4.98 The star outfielder for the Los The inspiration for the Oscar Angeles Lions, stationed with winning film of the same name, the rest of his ball team in the Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer brutally hot Arizona desert for Prize and PEN/Faulkner pulitzer spring training, Jason Goodyear Award winner is a modern clasprize is handsome, famous, and talsic, interweaving the life and winner ented. He is also coming apart the work of Virginia Woolf at the seams, and the coaches, with a group of characters struggling with conflictwriters, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard ing claims of love and duty, hope and despair. The fans following his every move are eager to find out novel evokes Woolf ’s last moments before her suiwhy—even as they hide secrets of their own. This may cide in 1941, then splits into three overlapping stobe Emily Nemens’s first novel, but she knows a thing ries from different eras: Woolf writes Mrs. Dalloway or two about good writing, and she knows even more in 1923; restless housewife Laura Brown compulabout the game. Named a Best Book of 2020 by sively reads the book in 1951; and lesbian publisher NPR and a New York Times Editors Choice, this Clarissa Vaughan is nearly Mrs. Dalloway come to is an explosive, character-driven odyssey through the life in today’s New York City. world of baseball. “With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, “[The author] demonstrates deep knowledge not only he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute— of baseball but also of American desperation…. With reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of her sharp eye for the details of unremarkable lives, what endures.”—Boston Globe (320/2019) Nemens at times reminds one of Joan Didion, and her Southwestern dreamers.”—LATimes “A miniature, self-enclosed world that is funny and poiD21314 gnant and lovingly observed.”—NYTBR (288/2021) IN ROYAL SERVICE

D22727 CROSSINGS

Alex Landragin. Griffin (pap) 17.99 5.98 As the Nazis approach Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings, consisting of three narratives. In this ingenious debut, Alex Landragin re-creates each tale, including a ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl; a noir romance about an exiled man who falls in love with a storyteller; and the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose life has spanned seven generations. How do the stories connect, and as the bookbinder wonders, how do they shed light on his own life at a perilous moment in history? (359/2021)

TO THE QUEEN A Novel of the Queen’s Governess

Tessa Arlen. Berkley (pap) 17.00 5.98 It is May 1945 and Princess Elizabeth—the heiress to the British throne—has fallen in love, and the only member of her family who approves is her governess, Marion “Crawfie” Crawford. Maybe it’s because Crawfie too has fallen in love, and has convinced her fiancé, George, that they must wait for Elizabeth and Philip to receive the King’s blessing before she can leave her service to the Crown. Now Crawfie is caught between loyalty to Princess Elizabeth, running the risk of alienating the Queen, and losing the man she loves. And just around the corner is a betrayal, one that could sever her bond with the royal family forever. (351/2021)

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Reader rejoice! At last this funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant book is back in print.... One of my Top Ten Favorite Books of All Time.” —Annie Proulx D23115 INDEPENDENT PEOPLE

Halldor Laxness. Knopf. 26.00 7.98 Having spent 18 years in humiliating servitude to another shepherd, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his own flocks unbeholden to any man, but Bjartur’s spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, emotionally intense and intimate in its homely detail. This 1934 novel by Nobel Laureate Halldor Laxness remains his masterpiece, a family portrait and a comic indictment of Icelandic history. (552/2020)

D23066 THE KEW GARDENS GIRLS

Posy Lovell. G.P. Putnam’s Sons (pap) 16.00 4.98 London, 1916. England is embroiled in the Great War. Keen to help in any way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, taking on the jobs of men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to flourish, and offer a safe haven for those seeking solace—but not everyone wants women working at Kew. As challenges on the home front multiply, a disaster overseas affects the people closest to them. Can the women of Kew pull through in this darkest of times? Based on true events, this is the debut American novel from Posy Lovell, a pen name for British journalist Kerry Barrett. (308/2021)

D23067 THE LAST CHECKMATE

Gabriella Saab. William Morrow (pap) 16.99 4.98 The rest of her family was murdered in Auschwitz, but teenaged Maria Florkowska has been spared—for now—in this gripping debut novel. Once a member of the Polish resistance in Nazioccupied Warsaw, she is also a brilliant chess player, and this is why sadistic camp deputy Karl Fritzsch has kept her alive, using her as a chess opponent to entertain the guards. Maria plays for her life, trying to overcome her grief and pursue vengeance, intentionally provoking Fritzsch’s volatile nature in front of his superiors, hoping to orchestrate his downfall. As the war nears its end, she challenges her nemesis to one final game that will end in life or death, in failure or justice. “Saab’s capable debut features a revenge plot set amidst the horrors of the Holocaust…. Readers who love WWII fiction with strong female leads should check this out.” —Publishers Weekly (392/2021)

D23060 MARGREETE’S HARBOR

Eleanor Morse. St. Martin’s. 27.99 5.98 After Margreete Bright accidentally starts a fire at her Maine home, her daughter Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. Leaving Michigan, Liddie, her husband Harry, and their children settle in Maine with Margreete. Set during the Vietnam War, this winner of the Maine Literary Award for Fiction chronicles ten years in the life of the family, as Liddie struggles to become a professional cellist, Harry finds that his opposition to the war endangers his position as a teacher, and Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them. (374/2021)

D23068 THE MOON, THE STARS, AND MADAME BUROVA

Ruth Hogan. William Morrow (pap) 16.99 5.98 Beloved Tarot reader Madame Imelda Burova is retiring from her booth on the Brighton seafront, and—after a lifetime of keeping other people’s secrets—she is ready to have a life for herself. But in this novel by the author of The Keeper of Lost Things, she still has to fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends had their whole lives still before them. In London, Billie has lost her job and her marriage, when an unlikely discovery leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail which leads directly to Madame Burova’s door. (288/2021)

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A remarkable introduction to Italian literature and a great gift to the Englishspeaking reader.... Each story in this volume is a jewel.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) D21996 THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ITALIAN SHORT STORIES

Jumpa Lahiri, ed. Penguin. 30.00 6.98 When Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, she discovered a rich literary world that remains too little known in the English speaking world. Appearing here in translation are 40 stories selected by Lahiri, including tales by Italo Calvino (“Dialogue with a Tortoise”), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (“The Siren”), Elsa Morante (“The Ambitious Ones”), Leonardo Sciascia (“The Long Voyage”), and Natalia Ginzburg (“My Husband”). Here too are contributions by Primo Levi, Luigi Pirandello, Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Pavese, Giovanni Verga, Antonio Tabucchi, and Carlo Emilio Gadda. (528 /2019) award winner

D23070 THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS

Danielle Evans. Riverhead (pap) 17.00 5.98 The winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, this collection by Danielle Evans explores how history haunts us, personally and collectively. In “Boys Go to Jupiter,” a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral, while in “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain,” a photojournalist confronts her own losses while attending a friend’s unexpectedly dramatic wedding. And in the title novella, a black scholar is drawn into a complex historical mystery that spans generations and puts her job, her love life, and her oldest friendship at risk. (288/2021)

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D23044 THE SHELL COLLECTOR Stories

Anthony Doerr. Scribner (pap) 16.00 5.98 Twelve years before Anthony Doerr won the Pulitzer Prize for his remarkable 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, he made his debut with this impressive collection of eight stories. In such tales as “The Hunter’s Wife,” “Mkondo,” and “For a Long Time This Was Griselda’s Story,” Doerr ranges from the African Coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Some of the characters in these stories contend with hardships and some discover unique gifts, but all are united by their ultimate deference to the ravishing universe outside themselves. “Doerr’s prose dazzles, his sinewy sentences blending the naturalists’ unswerving gaze with the poet’s gift for metaphor.”—The New York Times Book Review (240/2011)

Arturo Islas. William Morrow (pap) 15.99 4.98 D22949 In a small town on the TexasA SINGLE MAN Mexico border, Mama Chona— Christopher Isherwood. the indomitable matriarch of the Picador. 16.00 4.98 Angel clan who fled the bullets The inspiration for the Oscar nomiand blood of the 1911 revolution nated film of the same name starring for a gringo land of promise— Colin Firth, this late novel from tries to protect her family and hold it together. In this Christopher Isherwood was deemed 1984 classic, Arturo Islas paints an unforgettable famiby Edmund White to be “one of the ly portrait that includes Miguel Grande, a self-centered first and best novels of the modern policeman; Miguel Chico, a chronically ill professor Gay Liberation movement.” Set in 1962, it is the living far from home; Felix, whose conflicted sexualstory of George Falconer, an English professor in ity puts him in peril; and rebellious Nina, who creates strife for her father and her son. (180/2020) California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity yet also with humor, Isherwood shows George’s determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul’s ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation. “A quarter-century ahead of its time in its portrayal of a quotidian homosexual life, it inspired a generation of gay writers in Britain and the U.S.” —Independent (London) (240/2019)

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D23063 SUMMER LIGHT, AND THEN COMES THE NIGHT

Jon Kalman Stefansson. HarperCollins. 26.99 5.98 Two hours north of Reykjavik, a village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, as 400 inhabitants chase their dreams in the lingering light of an Icelandic summer. With humor, poetry, and tenderness for human weaknesses, Jon Kalman Stefansson explores the question of why we live, and in this winner of the Icelandic Prize for Literature, he introduces such characters as the Astronomer, who dreams in Latin; the widower Hannes, a police officer; and Helga, on the phone 40 hours a week just to listen to lonely people talk. (249/2021)

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D21035 WHILE PARIS SLEPT

Ruth Druart. Grand Central. 28.00 6.98 Paris, 1944. A young Jewish woman is herded onto a train bound for Auschwitz, and in an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger. Nine years later in Santa Cruz, Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now, he has a new life in California, a family, and he never expected the past to come knocking on his door. Told from both perspectives, Ruth Druart’s compelling debut converges on the darkened platform, where the choices each person makes will change the future in ways neither could have imagined. (449/2021)

D23047 WHO IS MAUD DIXON?

Alexandra Andrews. Little, Brown. 28.00 5.98 Florence Darrow has always felt she was destined for Hendrik Groen. greatness, but after a disasGrand Central (pap) trous affair with her married 16.99 5.98 boss, she starts to doubt Friends in good and bad times, herself. All that changes when Hendrik Groen and Evert she sets off for Morocco with Duiker meet once a week to the reclusive author Maud play chess, have a drink, and grab a bite to eat while Dixon. Amidst the colorful reflecting on life. But in this third book in the series streets of Marrakesh and the wind-swept beaches of (after On the Bright Side), Evert spots a stroller with a the coast, Florence begins to feel she’s leading the baby in it—unattended for just a minute—and decides sort of cosmopolitan life she deserves. But in this to take it for a walk. Evert and Henfrik resolve to “sharp, unpredictable and enormously entertaining” return their charge to its parents, but the quiet neighnovel (Washington Post), when Florence wakes up in borhood is now swarmed by bumbling police officers, the hospital after a car accident, with no memory of and they realize that getting rid of their accidental the previous night—and no sign of Maud—a dangerfoster child will be more difficult than expected. ous idea begins to take form. (324/2021) (275/2021)

D22798 THE WEEKEND

Charlotte Wood. Riverhead (pap) 16.00 5.98 Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank, and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts for the remaining three. They are Jude, a once-famous restaurateur; Wendy, a public intellectual; and Adele, a renowned actress now mostly out of work. When the grieving women gather at Sylvie’s old beach house to clean it out before it is sold, fraying tempers, an elderly dog, unwelcome guests, and too much wine collide in a storm that brings long-buried hurts to the surface. Can they survive together without her? (262/2021)

D22986 WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE TREASURE OF MAPUNGUBWE HILL

Chris Angus. Yucca (pap) 14.95 5.98 A prisoner during the Boer War, young Winston Churchill is offered a secret deal for freedom by Britain’s enemy Louis Botha: with Botha’s agent, Zeila, Winston must seek out and protect the fabulous Nubian treasure known only as Mapungubwe Hill. But in this fastpaced, fictional outing, a rogue member of the British royal family, Lord Sterne, is also after the treasure. Can Winston and the lovely Zeila both survive being entombed? And will their relationship go further than their mission? (304/2014)

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Kalman’s signature artwork, color-drenched and featuring heavy black line, is as individual as Stein’s writing…. Toss out your old editions, this is the one you’ll want to own.” —Library Journal (starred review) D23299 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS

Gertrude Stein. Maira Kalman, illus. Penguin. 30.00 12.98 Considered one of the richest and most irreverent biographies in history, this 1933 classic was written by Gertrude Stein in the style and voice of her life partner, Alice B. Toklas. Recounting the vibrant life the two make for themselves among the Parisian avantgarde, Alice opens the doors to Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Man Ray. In this edition, Maira Kalman brings this glittering Parisian world to life with dozens of whimsical color illustrations that complement Stein’s witty narrative. (320/2020)

D23079 KAHLIL GIBRAN: BEYOND BORDERS

Kahlil Gibran & Jean Gibran. Head of Zeus. Import 9.98 As a young man in the 1890s, Lebanese-born artist, poet, and polymath Kahlil Gibran emigrated to America, and in 1923 produced his inspiring and influential masterwork The Prophet, comprising 26 philosophical essays in poetic English. With black and white photos and reproductions of art throughout, this biography from his cousin and namesake Kahlil G. Gibran and Jean Gibran chronicles how Gibran encouraged a renaissance of Arab literature, painted hundreds of canvases (including numerous portraits of artists), and embraced elements of faiths beyond his Maronite Catholic upbringing, including Sufi mysticism and the Baha’i faith. (544/2017)

D22371 KANT’S LITTLE PRUSSIAN HEAD & OTHER REASONS WHY I WRITE An Autobiography in Essays

Claire Messud. Norton. 26.95 4.98 In 26 intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, novelist Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her father lived his final days, while he was dying. Messud meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. In the luminous title essay, she explores her drive to write, born of the transformative powers of “a single successful sentence.” (336/2020)

D22155 THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH

Tom Wolfe. Back Bay (pap) 15.99 5.98 What we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong, argues legendary storyteller and journalist Tom Wolfe. In this “whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution” (NYTimes), he takes us from Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, to the controversial work of anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans. Wolfe insists that “language, in all its forms, advanced man far beyond the boundaries of natural selection,” and shows how the laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism are irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech. (192/2017)

D23440 THE ODYSSEY

Homer. Robert Fitzgerald, trans. FSG (pap) 14.00 6.98 Essentially a freestanding sequel to The Iliad, Homer’s Odyssey is much more, a swashbuckling epic that has deeply influenced writers and artists for 2700 years. Presented in Robert Fitzgerald’s timeless 1965 translation, here is the story of how the Greek Odysseus attempts to return home after the war, but needs all of his legendary cunning and valor to contend with a cyclops, the Sirens, the monstrous Scylla, the whirlpool Charybdis, and the sorceress Circe, plus a houseful of suitors eager to marry his wife. (592/1998)

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D23441 POEMS AND PROSE

Elizabeth Bishop. FSG (2 vols, slipcased) 75.00 19.98 Increasingly recognized as one of the great English language poets of the 20th century (she was a U.S. Poet Laureate who earned the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and many other accolades), Elizabeth Bishop is revered by readers and fellow poets alike. Her poems combine humor and sadness, pain and forbearance, and she observes nature and lives in perfect miniature. Bishop was also a dazzling prose writer, and her stories, memoirs, and travel pieces freely intermingle. Presented in two handsome volumes in a laminated slipcase, this omnibus collects all of Bishop’s published poems, nearly all of her shorter prose pieces, and a number of works not published until after her death. (896/2011)

D22291 UNLESS IT MOVES THE HUMAN HEART The Craft and Art of Writing

D23437 OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS

T.S. Eliot. Ecco (pap) 4.98 Roger Rosenblatt. When T.S. Eliot penned these Ecco (pap) 14.99 5.98 quirky, lighthearted poems about For more than forty years, cats for his godchildren back in author Roger Rosenblatt has also the 1930s, little did he know that been a teacher of writing, and they would inspire Broadway’s here details one semester in his longest running show nearly half “Writing Everything” class. In a series of funny, pera century later. Offering a glimpse of this literary sonal conversations, a diverse group of his students icon’s lighter side, this collection introduces such offgrapple with the questions and subjects most imporkilter kitties as magical Mr. Mistoffelees, sleepy Old tant to narrative craft. Rosenblatt delves into their Deuteronomy, vain Rum Tum Tugger, the venerable varied lives, bringing readers closer to them, emotion- Gus, adventurous Growltiger, and that elusive cat ally investing us in their failures and triumphs. The crook, Macavity. (64/1968) result is a deeply felt and impassioned plea for the necessity of writing in our lives. “Roger Rosenblatt is the teacher you always wished you had…. Adept and inventive, Rosenblatt encourD23337 ages his students to write with moderation but think TAKE ARMS AGAINST with grandiosity.”—Boston Globe (176/2011) A SEA OF TROUBLES

D22285 MY SENTENCE WAS A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY Poems

The Power of the Reader’s Mind Over a Universe of Death

Harold Bloom. Yale. 35.00 9.98 “The great poems, plays, Robert Bly. novels, stories teach us how Harper (pap) 16.99 5.98 to go on living,” observes “God crouches at night over a Harold Bloom. “Rise up at single pistachio. / The vastness dawn and read something of the Wind River Range in that matters as soon as you can.” This dazzling celWyoming / Has no more granebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death— deur than the waist of a child.” completed weeks before Bloom’s 2019 passing— Compact and profound, ghazals are most commonly shows how literature renews life amid what Milton found in Arabic literature, but Robert Bly nonethecalled “a universe of death.” In passages of breathtakless has mastered the form. A follow-up to 2001’s The ing intimacy, Bloom reflects on favorite passages from Night Abraham Called to the Stars, this rich collection of Dante, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Bly’s ghazals draws inspiration from flamenco dancers, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. (672/2020) the Gnostics, and the paintings of Robert Motherwell. “[Bly] brings it all together—integrating erudition, moral concern, introspection and passion.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune (112/2006)

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D22910 THE CHICKEN SOUP MANIFESTO Recipes from Around the World

Jenn Louis. Hardie Grant. 29.99 9.98 Simple and universally enjoyed, chicken soup is also extremely adaptable. With more than 100 recipes dedicated to this one special, often humble, meal, James Beard-nominee Jenn Louis shows that chicken soup is not only a source of heart-warming sustenance, but also a cure-all and an expression of love. With chapters broken down by region and country, this book includes Algerian Chorba Bayda, Colombian Sancocho, Thai Kao Tom Gai, and Spanish Sopa de Picadillo. Along with the recipes, Jenn also covers essential chicken know-how, from selecting and storing, to stock 101 and brining. (240/2020)

D22301 BERRIES

Roger Yepsen. Countryman. 18.95 7.98 Now that fruits from around the world are readily available to us at any time of the year, we have lost some of our appreciation for the berries that can be picked much closer to home, suggests Roger Yepsen. Celebrating berries as “edible jewels, compounded of sunlight and soil and floral perfume,” Yepsen considers here such traditional fare as blueberries and strawberries, but also elderberries, black currants, snowberries, and rose hips. Yepsen’s lovely watercolor paintings appear throughout, and the book contains recipes for Pink Raspberry Lemonade, Blackberry Martini, Tea and Elderberry Sorbet, Blueberry Buckle, and the Scottish trifle known as Whim Wham, among many others. (224/2017)

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D22567 CHEESE, WINE, AND BREAD Discovering the Magic of Fermentation in England, Italy, and France

Katie Quinn. William Morris. 29.99 7.98 Bread, cheese, and wine all develop their complex flavors through fermentation, and traveling food journalist Katie Quinn spent months apprenticing with European experts to study the art and science of this process—a journey chronicled and illustrated in this artisanal travelogue cookbook. In England she becomes a cheesemonger at Neal’s Yard Dairy, London, leading her to a nationwide search for dairy gurus. Quinn gives us an inside look at Italian winemaking in the vineyard of the Comellis family, and encounters many other vintners around the country. And in France she meets Apollonia Poilâne of Paris and apprentices at boulangeries around the city, learning the ins and outs of sourdough. (384/2021)

Maira Kalman, with Barbara Scott-Goodman. Penguin (pap) 16.00 5.98 Cake, it turns out, has cheered artist and author D22861 Maira Kalman throughout THE CITY OF VINES her life, ever since the A History of Wine very first one she rememin Los Angeles bers, a chocolate cake shared on the terrace of her Thomas Pinney. aunt Shoshana’s apartment in Tel Aviv. This beautiful Heyday. 35.00 7.98 little book, filled with Kalman’s joyous paintings, is The City of Angels has also an impressionistic memoir of particular cakes and been a hub for wine proalso cakes in general; as she says, “It is not an auspiduction, and here Thomas cious occasion without cake. Things are much nicer Pinney brings incisive with cake.” The book is also full of cake recipes from analysis and a touch of dry Barbara Scott-Goodman, including Pistachio and humor to this chronicle of Almond Pound Cake, Pavlova with Fresh Berries, winemaking in Los Angeles Flourless Chocolate Cake, Honey Cake, Plum Torte, from the late 18th century Gingerbread Cake, and Mit Schlag. (93/2020) through its decline in the 1950s. Pinney also shows LA’s wine industry to be beholden to the forces that shaped all California under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States: the labor of indigenous peoples, the Gold Rush population boom, transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization, and QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED Prohibition. California wine once meant Los Angeles and Pinney reveals the lasting ways in which the 800-395-2665 wine, industry shaped the metropolis. (352/2017)

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D23065 THE EVERYTHING GREEN MEDITERRANEAN COOKBOOK 200 Plant-Basd Recipes for Healthy and Satisfying Weight Loss

Peter Minaki. Adams (pap) 18.99 5.98 You can learn the basics of the Mediterranean Diet from this cookbook, which makes innovative meals from fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, and healthy fats, while sidestepping hydrogenated oils and added sugar. Every meal of the day (plus snacks) are covered in this four-week planner, which contains 1200 recipes for such delights as Moroccan Chicken with Cinnamon and Olives, Black Bean Linguine with Shrimp, Veggies with Lemony Hummus, Turkey-Meatball Soup, Roasted Spice Cashews, Berry-Honey Pancakes, Vanilla Peach Smoothie, Yogurt Chocolate Pudding, and a Summer Fruit Granita. (272/2021)

D22975 HEALTHY ONE PAN DINNERS 100 Easy Recipes for Your Sheet Pan, Skillet, Multicooker and More

D20445 NATURALLY SWEET BAKING Healthier Recipes for a Guilt-Free Treat

Caroline Strothe & Sebastian Keitel. DK (pap) 17.99 6.98 Dana Angelo White. Discover how to bake Alpha (pap) more than 70 delicious 19.99 5.98 low-sugar and sugar-free Weeknight dinners recipes, including healthier can be a chore, versions of such favorites as carrot cake, muffins, ginespecially when they require multiple pots and gerbread, and hot cross buns. The recipes contain little pans. With these 100 easy recipes, meals can come or no processed sugar, instead relying on easy-to-source together quickly and require only one sheet pan, sugar substitutes and natural sugar alternatives, such as skillet, Dutch oven, multicooker, or slow cooker. honey and seasonal produce. With that in mind, you can Ranging from finger-food to rather fancy, this more fully enjoy Strawberry and Almond Cake, Peanut worldwide collection of recipes includes Roasted Blondies, Apple Waffles, Blackberry Swiss Roll, and Late Chicken Thighs with Butternut Squash, Shepherd’s Summer Berry Gateau. Praising the value of foraging Pie, Cheeseburger Sliders, Veggie Lasagna, Sweet and in-season baking, Carolin Strothe and her husband Potato Coconut Stew, and Flank Steak Tacos with Sebastian Keitel also explain the benefits of a low-sugar Charred Corn Salsa. (160/2020) diet and debunk the myth that healthy baking must come with a compromise. (208/2019)

D23194 NUTS 50 Tasty Recipes, from Crunchy to Creamy and Savory to Sweet

Patrick Evans-Hylton. Sasquatch. 19.95 4.98 Nuts are heart healthy, contain good fats that lower cholesterol, are loaded with Omega-3s, and are a great source of fiber—plus they are downright delicious! Focusing on the nine most commonly available nuts, this tasty little cookbook is filled with 50 recipes, including Macadamia Nut Banana Bread, Grilled Peanut Chicken Skewers, Ambrosia Fruit Salad with Pistachios, Chocolate Walnut Bark S’mores, and even a recipe for making your own almond milk. (144/2015)

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D22354 SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW Oysters Rockefeller, Walnut Soufflé, and Other Classic Recipes Revisited

Tamar Adler. Scribner (pap) 18.00 6.98 Many dishes that once excited our palates—like Steak Diane, Waldorf Salad, and Baked Alaska—have disappeared from our tables and, in some cases, from our memories. Creating a unique culinary history, Tamar Adler has collected more than 100 recipes from old cookbooks and menus, and enlivened, updated, and simplified them. Whether revisiting or trying for the first time, enjoy Shrimp Scampi, Chicken Kiev, Crudités, Egg Drop Soup, Sweet-and-Spicy Cucumbers, and Chocolate Mousse “Adler has a curious intelligence and technical command to back up a thoughtful approach to classic French dishes…. Any cook looking to exercise and enhance creativity will find in Adler a worthy muse.”—Booklist (288/2019)

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D23246 TEN RESTAURANTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA

Paul Freedman. Liveright (pap) 23.95 6.98 Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone’s, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soulé’s Le Pavillon, food historian Paul Freedman uses ten restaurants to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. Illustrated with sample menus and more than 100 illustrations, Freedman’s social history also discusses the thenrevolutionary Schrafft’s—a chain of lunch spots that catered to women—and that bygone favorite, Howard Johnson’s, swept aside by McDonald’s. (560/2018)

D23059 HOW TO GRILL VEGETABLES The New Bible for Barbecuing Vegetables over Live Fire

Steven Raichlen. Workman (pap) 24.95 7.98 Celebrating all the ways to grill green, this illustrated guide shows how to bring live fire or wood smoke to every imaginable vegetable. Steven Raichlen explains how to fire-blister tomatoes, cedar-plank eggplant, hay-smoke lettuce, spit-roast Brussels sprouts on the stalk, grill corn five ways—even cook whole onions in the embers. After an introduction to the basic components of the grill, the 115 recipes featured here include Spicy Smoked Chickpeas, Padron Pepper Poppers, and the DoubleGrilled Summer Vegetable Frittata, plus there are chapters on grilling breads, pizza, eggs, cheese, and desserts. (325/2021)

D23061 PROJECT FIRE Cutting-Edge Techniques and Sizzling Recipes from the Caveman Porterhouse to Salt Slab Brownie S’Mores

Steven Raichlen. Workman (pap) 22.95 6.98 If anyone can claim to have written the book on grilling, it is Steven Raichlin, praised by LATimes as “the Julia Child of barbecue.” Cutting edge techniques meet timehoned traditions in 100 boldly flavored recipes, accompanied by tips on buying, using, and maintaining your grill. Even novices can learn to prepare reverse-seared beef tomahawks, dry-brined filets mignons, embercharred porterhouses, and T-bones tattooed with grill marks. Here too are Raichlin’s tips on how to spit-roast beer-brined cauliflower, blowtorch a rosemary veal chop, grill peppery chicken under a salt brick, and make herbcrusted salmon steaks on a shovel. (325/2018)

D22945 RED SANDS Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

Caroline Eden. Quadrille. 37.00 9.98 Using food as the jumpingoff point to explore the vast heartland of Asia, the author of Black Sea navigates a course from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the sun-ripened orchards of the Fergana Valley. Whether describing landscapes, the inhabitants of these far-flung lands, or their distinctive cuisines, Caroline Eden is a first-rate writer, and her multi-faceted travelogue is rounded out with vivid color photographs and recipes for such dishes as Pancakes with Green Grape Conserve, Vladimir Lee’s Kimchi, Bygone Uzbek Salad, and the cocktail known as Caspian Anchor. (288/2020)

D23062 SHEET PAN SUPPERS 120 Recipes for Simple, Surprising, Hands-Off Meals Straight from the Oven

Molly Gilbert. Workman (pap) 15.95 4.98 Many foods actually taste better when cooked on a sheet pan, because it uses three techniques—roasting, baking, or broiling—that intensify flavor. Sheet pans are among the most basic kitchen implements, but their versatility is showcased here in recipes for BBQ Chicken Nachos, Italian Meat and Cheese Stromboli, Baked Brie & Strawberries, Falafel Bites, Baked Feta & Chunky Mango Chutney, Spanakopita with Yogurt Sauce, and Pork Tenderloin with Squash, Apples & Onion, plus Roasted Banana Sundaes and Flourless Chocolate Cake. (295/2014)

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D22895 THE BAD FOOD BIBLE Why You Can (and Maybe Should) Eat Everything You Thought You Couldn’t

Aaron Carroll. Harvest (pap) 14.99 4.98 Many of us are at risk of ingesting too much red meat, salt, and alcohol—right? Not necessarily, suggests physician Aaron Carroll, who warns that if we stop consuming some of our most demonized foods, it may actually hurt us. Examining troves of studies on dietary health, Carroll separates hard truths from hype, offering more nuanced assessments of meat, eggs, coffee, gluten, diet soda, GMOs, and MSG. (272/2019)

D23153 AGE LATER Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity

Nir Barzilai, with Tony Robino. St. Martin’s. 28.99 6.98 How do some people avoid the slowing down, deteriorating, and weakening that plagues many of their peers? Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? The founder of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Nir Barzilai has made it his life’s work to battle agerelated diseases. In studies involving “SuperAgers”— individuals who maintain active lives well into their 90s or beyond without experiencing cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or cognitive decline—Barzilai reveals scientific discoveries that show we can mimic some of their natural resistance to the aging process. (276/2020)

D22085 BIG CHICKEN The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

Maryn McKenna. National Geographic. 27.00 6.98 Consumed more than any other meat in the United States, chicken is emblematic of today’s mass food-processing practices and their profound influence on our lives and health. Tracing its meteoric rise from scarce treat to ubiquitous global commodity, Maryn McKenna reveals the astounding role of antibiotics in industrial farming, documenting how and why “wonder drugs” revolutionized the way the world eats—and not necessarily for the better. “McKenna offers spot-on commentary on the dangerous additives in chickens and concludes on a relatively hopeful note.”—Publishers Weekly (400/2017)

D22885 LIVE WELL 100 Simple Ways to Live a Better and Longer Life

Patricia Macnair. Sterling Ethos (pap) 12.95 3.98 As you grow older, you can grow better, too. Here Patricia Mcnair covers physical, emotional, and environmental wellness, and includes advice on coping with symptoms of illness and avoiding risk factors by making healthy choices. In individual chapters, this inspiring guide clarifies the life-changing importance of spending time in nature, exercising safely, continuing to educate yourself, developing positive self-esteem, and taking a “staycation.” (128/2019)

D22427 THE OMEGA PRINCIPLE Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet

Paul Greenberg. Penguin. 27.00 6.98 Omega-3 fatty acids have long been celebrated by doctors and dieticians as key to a healthy heart and a sharper brain, but the miracle pill is only the latest product of the reduction industry, which converts marine life into animal feed, fertilizer, margarine, and dietary supplements—but in doing so, disrupts the food chain. Taking an objective look, Paul Greenberg traces the surprising history of omega3s—from human prehistory—when the discovery of seafood may have produced major cognitive leaps for our species—to the present, when omega-3s may point the way to a bold new direction for our food system. (292/2018)

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D22610 THE ADVENTUROUS GARDENER

Christopher Lloyd. W&N (pap) 6.98 Gardening can be adventurous, and here Christopher Lloyd takes us on a tour through the garden, to encourage and to overturn the old and accepted when experience prompts him. An absolute maverick, Lloyd developed Great Dixter to be one of Britain’s greatest gardens, a place that remains as a monument to his devotion. In this 1984 classic, Lloyd—praised by London’s Guardian as “the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times”—advises on cuttings, pruning, the art of compromise, and the legacy of Gertrude Jekyll. (240/2021)

D22832 THE PROBLEM WITH MY GARDEN Simple Solutions for Outdoor Spaces

Kendra Wilson. Laurence King (pap) 17.99 6.98 Do you long for a beautiful garden but hate weeding? Are you intimidated by roses? Do your neighbor’s trees block your sunlight? Is your outdoor space too big? Whether you are seeking a solution to a specific problem or just need some inspiration, this handy guide leads the way with smart design advice, beautiful plant combinations, and easy planting tips. Some of the ideas here are hands-on, like battling slugs and finding time for watering, but Kendra Wilson also offers common-sense guidance on how to visualize and achieve the garden that will work best for you. (144/2017)

D22198 CLEAN GREEN Tips and Recipes for a Naturally Clean, More Sustainable Home

Jen Chillingsworth. Quadrille. 12.99 5.98 Cleaning is something we all have to do, whether we enjoy it or not. In supermarkets we are confronted with products that clean anything and everything, but many of them contain a cocktail of chemicals that can have a severe effect on our health and the environment we live in. In this guide, Jen Chillingsworth shows how to tackle each room and cleaning task in a natural way. Learn how to create your own products that are safer to use, with eco-friendly recipes to make your own hand wash, dishwashing liquid, stain remover, toilet cleaner, air freshener, and more. (160/2020)

D22922 HOME REPAIR WISDOM & KNOW-HOW Timeless Techniques to Fix, Maintain, and Improve Your Home

Black Dog & Leventhal (pap) 19.99 6.98 A house can be a lot of work, and many of us no longer possess the knowledge needed to fix the things that inevitably break. Featuring step-by-step instructions from the pages of Fine Homebuilding magazine, this abundantly illustrated guide introduces the basic tools that homeowners are likely to need, then offers a wealth of advice on repairing or replacing kitchen sinks, toilets, ceiling fans, and gas fireplaces. By way of bigger projects, here too you will find tips for removing interior walls, repairing the roof, hanging drywall, and installing electrical wiring. (912/2017)

D22805 VANISHING FLEECE Adventures in American Wool

Clara Parkes. Abrams (pap) 15.99 5.98 Making a serious pursuit of the perfect yarn, Clara Parkes takes a cross-county tour from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and presents here a behind-the-scenes look at the spinners, scourers, genius inventors, and crazy-complex mill machines that populate the yarn-making industry. In such chapters as “Infiltrating Big Wool,” “The Stradivarius of Salvage,” and “Halloween Spooktacular at the Haunted Dyehouse,” Parkes finds out the hard way that bales can explode, meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, and learns firsthand how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. (184/2021)

D21277 WHO KNEW? 10,001 HOUSEHOLD SOLUTIONS Money-Saving Tips, DIY Cleaners, Kitchen Secrets, and Other Easy Answers to Everyday Problems

Bruce Lubin. Castle Point. 24.99 5.98 Whether you’re cleaning house, cooking a meal, improving your appearance, or fighting a cold, this indispensable guide will help you with natural and simple solutions to your daily tasks. Vinegar, baking soda, lemons, duct tape, and beer are just a few of the inexpensive, all-purpose tools you need to eliminate odors, keep your food fresher longer, get rid of pests, increase storage space, de-stress, and give yourself a spa treatment. With simple instructions, you’ll discover clever and creative ways to give your home—and yourself—a makeover while saving time and money. (400/2018)

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D23164 LIT STITCH 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers

Book Riot. Abrams (pap) 19.99 6.98 Giving you a creative way to express your love for reading, this book features cross-stitch patterns for bookmarks, wall decor, and desktop displays. An introduction to cross-stitch is included, and most of the projects are beginner-friendly and can be completed in a few hours. With these patterns and instructions from Book Riot, you can make designs with plenty of wit and attitude: “Treat Your Shelf ” and “Damn, it feels good to be a reader!” (160/2020)

D22971 BRICK WONDERS Ancient, Modern, and Natural Wonders Made from LEGO

D23040 THE DRAW ANY ANIMAL BOOK

Robert Lambry. Quarry (pap) 16.99 5.98 In the 1920s–30s, French Warren Elsmore. artist Robert Lambry created B.E.S. (pap) 19.99 5.98 a series of charming stepEven the most amazby-step lessons for drawing ing buildings and aweanimals for a weekly chilinspiring natural sites can dren’s paper. A century later, be replicated with your these beautiful lineworks LEGO collection. In fact, you can use LEGO bricks remain valid, showing how to use familiar shapes to create realistic renderings of such animals as a dog, to create scale models an elephant, a giraffe, a hippo, a peacock, a whale, of the Great Pyramid, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal, an owl, a tiger, geese, and butterflies. The book also includes practice pages, so that you can look at the the International Space Station, the Grand Canyon, (175/2019) and even the Great Barrier Reef. The instructions are tutorials as you draw. abundantly illustrated, and the book comes with two fold-out posters, each 17½ × 24¾ inches. (256/2014)

D21053 BRICK HISTORY Amazing Historical Scenes to Build from LEGO

Warren Elsmore. B.E.S. (pap) 18.99 5.98 Imagine the thrilling Battle at Thermopylae, the assassination of Caesar, the Norman conquest of England, Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Mayflower sailing to America, the Civil War, the women’s suffrage movement, the Apollo 11 moon landing, and the inauguration of Barack Obama—in fact, 70 key moments in Western history—and all enacted with LEGO mini figures and bricks. The author of Brick City again gives us both projects to build and truly spectacular scenes to enjoy, captured in more than 400 color photos and two large foldout posters. Try your hand at the D-Day landings, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. (256/2016)

D23162 I LOVE MY DOG EMBROIDERY 380 Stitch Motifs for Dog Moms and Dads

Oksana Kokovkina. Quarry (pap) 19.99 5.98 Your tribute to your dog might as well be artistic, heartfelt, and maybe even soft and fuzzy, and so this fanciful collection of stitch motifs celebrates all things canine, with a wide variety of breeds represented. Here are designs of dogs rolling over and obliging a request to “give me your paw”; sporty pups skateboarding, parachuting, and ice skating; and pooches disguised as people: the farmer, the artist, the businessman, and the mailman. The 380 designs are shown here to be adaptable to a variety of projects, including a glasses case, a pendant, and a fanny pack. (119/2019)

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D22967 BALLS ON THE LAWN Games to Live By

Brooks Butler Hays. Jeremy Stein, illus. Chronicle. 12.95 4.98 The serious leisure aficionado knows that it doesn’t take much to transform a ho-hum afternoon into a truly memorable one—just a few balls, some mallets, maybe a horseshoe or two. Including the history and complete rules of 10 iconic games— from the common (bocce) to the obscure (Kan-Jam)—plus appropriate accompanying cocktails (serious leisure requires serious sustenance), this humorous guide will revolutionize Saturday afternoons through the long-held traditions, robust competition, and abundant camaraderie of lawn sports. (128/2014)

D22864 PALIO

John Hunt. Archimedia. 75.00 24.98 For four centuries, the legendary bare-back horse race known as Palio has united the people of Siena, Italy. In this companion to the 2015 documentary, co-producer John Hunt looks at the ritualism and rich symbolism of this extraordinary event, exploring how “the game” is played both on and off the racetrack by the “assassin jockeys” and the passionate Sienese. Action-packed photographs appear throughout, including archival images and film stills. (386/2015)

D22770 THE BIG CHAIR The Smooth Hops and Bad Bounces from the Inside World of the Acclaimed Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager

D22771 THE BONA FIDE LEGEND OF COOL PAPA BELL Speed, Grace, & the Negro Leagues

Lonnie Wheeler. Abrams. 28.00 5.98 One of the fastest players in Ned Colletti. baseball history, James “Cool G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Papa” Bell (1903–91) a key 28.00 5.98 member of some of the During his nine-year tengreatest Negro League teams ure with the Dodgers, Ned who was finally elected to Colletti had the highest winning percentage of any the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Born general manager in the National League. In this to sharecroppers in Mississippi, Bell was part of the memoir, Colletti reflects on working for three of the Great Migration, and in St. Louis, baseball saved Bell top franchises in the sport, revealing the out-of-thefrom a life working in slaughterhouses. Here Lonnie headlines machinations behind the trades, the hires Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player, and the deals. While frankly discussing the real brass charting Bell’s ups and downs in life and in baseball, tacks of some of the most pivotal decisions made in in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and baseball history—leading to great success along with Mexico, where he went to escape American racism heartbreak and failure on the field—Colletti shares his and MLB’s color line. (341/2021) personal recollections of Barry Bonds, Greg Maddux, Don Mattingly, Don Zimmer, Tommy Lasorda, Scott Boras, and Vin Scully. (464/2017)

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D21381 THE FIGHT

Norman Mailer. Random House (pap) Import 6.98 In Kinshasa, Zaïre, the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” pitted the aging superstar Muhammed Ali against the young, undefeated champion George Foreman. It would prove to be an all-time classic bout, but as Norman Mailer clarifies here, it also raised important issues about race, identity, and culture that are far from being resolved today. Whether he is analyzing the fighters’ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer— an amateur boxer, and a friend of both men—offers provocative and thoughtful commentary on the sport. (256/2013)

D23171 SMOKIN’ JOE The Life of Joe Frazier

Mark Kram Jr. Ecco (pap) 18.99 5.98 As Muhammad Ali increasingly tops polls as the greatest boxer of all time, “Smokin’” Joe Frazier is in danger of being forgotten, despite being Ali’s foremost rival and one of the finest fighters of the 20th century. Tracing a remarkable life, Mark Kram, Jr. follows Frazier—the youngest of a farmer’s 13 children in the Jim Crow South— from the beginnings of his career as a 15-year-old in Philadelphia through his 1981 retirement. Here too are insights on the famed fights against Foreman and Ali; his complex relationship with his son, Marvis; and his post-career obsession with Ali. “Sympathetic and thoroughly researched.... A worthy introduction to an under-appreciated American athlete.” —Joyce Carol Oates (376/2018)

D23267 THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPION Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation

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D23668 OUTSIDER BASEBALL The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876 –1950

Scott Simkus. Chicago Review. 26.95 6.98 Once upon a time, independent professional ball clubs zig-zagged across America, plying their trade in big cities and small villages alike. Some of the players were worldclass athletes while others were vicious mercenaries, and here Scott Simkus sets out to share their stories and use a critical lens to separate fact from fiction. With an eye for colorful details and meaningful stats, Simkus recounts how Babe Ruth, Rube Waddell, and John McGraw crossed bats with the Cuban Stars, Tokyo Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks, and dozens of famous Negro league teams. (336/2014)

D22800 THE WORLD BENEATH THEIR FEET Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

Scott Ellsworth. Little, Brown. 30.00 7.98 As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas; mountaineers from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States were all competing to be the first to climb the world’s highest peaks, including Mount Everest and K2. While profiling the climbers who became heroes in an obsessive worldwide quest that was cultural as well as political, Scott Ellsworth also chronicles the unlikely success story of New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and a young Sherpa runaway called Tenzing Norgay. (393/2020)

D22810 YOGI A Life Behind the Mask

Jon Pessah. Back Bay (pap) 19.99 6.98 Elizabeth Letts. Lawrence “Yogi” Berra was Ballantine (pap) 16.00 never supposed to become a 5.98 major league ballplayer. Yet Dutch immigrant Harry de Leyer baseball was his lifeblood, first saw the horse he would and Berra couldn’t allow a name Snowman on a truck bound constant stream of ridicule for the slaughterhouse; he was a about his appearance, taunts beaten-up nag but there was a spark in his eye, and about his speech, and scorn about his perceived Harry bought him for $80 and took him back to his lack of intelligence to keep him from becoming one modest Long Island farm. Elizabeth Letts, herself of the best to ever play the game—at a position an equestrian from childhood, gives us the dramatic requiring the very skills he was told he did not have. and inspiring rise to stardom of this unlikely duo, as Snowman and Harry climbed to the very top level of Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Jon Pessah examines how Berra handled his hard-earned succompetitive show jumping in 1958. cess—on and off the playing field—as well as his fail“Letts’s taut, detailed writing vividly recounts the excitement of the shows; the heights these underdogs ures. Playing in an era that featured some of the most impressive athletes ever to play the game, Berra’s climbed; the world of the Eisenhower fifties; and humility and grace redefined what it truly means to what Snowman and Harry meant to the everyday people they inspired.”—Shelf Awareness (566/2021) (368/2012) be a star.

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Elegant, elegiac and poignant…. Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide.” —Washington Post

D23425 THE AMUR RIVER Between Russia and China

Colin Thubron. HarperCollins. 27.99 6.98 Despite being the tenth longest river in the world, the Amur is almost unknown to outsiders. Simmering with the memory of landgrabs, this border between Russia and China is the most densely fortified frontier on earth—which would never deter 80 year old Colin Thubron. During a 3,000-mile trek, Thubron is harassed by police and dogged by injuries, but makes his way by Mongolian horse, hitchhiking, sailing on poacher’s sloops, and the TransSiberian Express. Most intriguingly, Thubron talks to Chinese traders and Russian fishermen, monks and indigenous peoples, bringing this land of contradictions to life. (291/2021)

D23305 THE EXPLORER’S EYE First-Hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration

D23438 THE ISLAND: MARTINIQUE

John Edgar Wideman. National Geographic. 20.00 5.98 Martinique’s seductive natural beauty and culture is matched only by its vexed history of Fergus Fleming & colonial violence and racism. Annabel Merullo, eds. Attempting to decipher the Michael Palin, intro. strange, alluring mixture of Abrams. 45.00 9.98 African and European that In the 19th century, is Creole, the author of Fatheralong and his French exploration entered traveling companion develop a powerful attraction a new dimension— to one another, which they find at once threatened explorers were motiand elevated by a third party—the island itself. A rich vated by scientific inquiry rather than greed, and intersection of place, history, and the intricacies of for the first time, they were able to include pictures human relations, John Edgar Wideman’s narrative is a as well as words. Combining gripping first-hand vivid account of the Creole experience. (192/2003) accounts with original images, this anthology gives an insight into who these people were and what they saw. The more than 50 contributors include Lewis & Clark, Edmund Hillary, Freya Stark, Thor Heyerdahl, Alexander von Humboldt, Robert Peary, Jacques D23415 Cousteau, Isabella Bird, Charles Darwin, Roald LOST IN THE Amundsen, and Hiram Bingham. (264/2005) VALLEY OF DEATH

D21606 ISLAND DREAMS Mapping an Obsession

A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

Harley Rustad. HarperCollins. 29.99 7.98 In his early thirties, Justin Gavin Francis. Alexander Shetler quit his Canongate. Import 9.98 job and traveled around the Looking back on a lifetime world, while also documentof travel from the Faroe ing his travels on Instagram. Islands to the Aegean, In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a from the Galapagos to the remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas Andaman Islands, Gavin steeped in mystical tradition. Accompanied by a Francis also reflects on his sadhu (Indian holy man), he set off on a spiritual responsibility as a doctor journey to a holy lake—a journey from which he and parent approaching middle age. Illustrated with maps throughout, Francis’s book is an examination of would never return. Telling Shetler’s story, Harley our collective fascination with islands, blending stories Rustad also questions what it can tell us about the ways we all seek fulfillment. of his own travels with wisdom gleaned from psy“Rustad draws readers into a tale of adventure and tragchology, philosophy, and great voyages in literature. edy that, despite its dark outcome, is illuminated with a “Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer—thoughtful, remarkable sense of humanity.” —Publishers Weekly engaging, immensely knowledgeable, and supremely (286/2022) human.”—Bill Bryson (256/2021)

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D23165 MARVELOUS MANHATTAN Stories of the Restaurants, Bars, and Shops That Make This City Special

Reggie Nadelson. Artisan. 24.95 6.98 New York might have Broadway, Times Square, and the Empire State Building, but the real heart and soul of the city can be found in the iconic smaller venues that have defined cool since “cool” became a word. A lifelong New Yorker, Reggie Nadelson celebrates her city and all the places that make it special. Part cultural history, part walk down memory lane, this guidebook—illustrated with both vintage and contemporary photos—is alive with the spirit and the grit of family-owned businesses that have survived many challenges through the years. (224/2021)

D23033 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SECRETS OF THE NATIONAL PARKS The Experts’ Guide to the Best Experiences Beyond the Tourist Trail, Second Edition

National Geographic (pap) 24.99 9.98 America’s national parks draw millions of visitors every year, from Yosemite’s famous Half Dome to Yellowstone’s Old Faithful. But beyond these well-known wonders lies a world of hidden treasures—if you know where to look. With these vital tips from rangers and expert travelers, you can have Acadia’s Sand Beach to yourself, or be one of the 10 percent of Grand Canyon visitors who go beyond the rim. This fully updated edition includes new entries for Pinnacles National Park, Gateway Arch, Indiana Dunes National Park, and Denali National Park and Preserve. (286/2020)

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D23052 WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town

Hannah Kirshner. Viking. 26.00 5.98 One night, Brooklynbased food writer Hannah Kirshner was invited to apprentice with a “saké evangelist” in the Japanese mountain village of Yamanaka. Inspired by the farmers and artists that she met there, Kirshner devoted herself to learning how they perfect their handiwork. Part travelogue, part meditation on the meaning of work, and full of her own beautiful drawings and recipes, Kirshner’s “sensitive, perceptive, and gratifyingly detailed” memoir (Booklist) is an ode to a place and its people, as well as a profound examination of what it means to sustain traditions. (368/2021)

D22985 THE WAYFARER’S HANDBOOK A Field Guide for the Independent Traveler

Evan S. Rice. Black Dog & Leventhal. 19.00 5.98 Some travel guides tell you where to go, but this one tells you how to go and prepares you for the unexpected. Among the many topics covered in this miscellany, here are the world’s 27 most common travel scams, the fascinating history of hot air balloons, everyday gestures that are offensive in foreign cultures, and tips on how to avoid a hippopotamus attack. Practical yet witty, the articles are accompanied by illustrations, infographics, maps, and charts. (288/2017)

D22604 THIS ACCURSED LAND An Epic Solo Journey Across Antarctica

Lennard Bickel. Canelo (pap) Import 6.98 Declining to join Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated 1910–13 British expedition, Douglas Mawson instead led a three-man husky team to explore and claim 500 miles of Antarctica’s coast. But the loss of Belgrave Ninnis and most of their supplies turned their trek into a nightmare. Mawson and Xavier Mertz were 320 miles from base with barely nine days’ food—and only one of them would return. Grippingly told by Lennard Bickel, this is an extraordinary ordeal from the golden age of Antarctic exploration, and ultimately an inspiring tale of endurance. (304/2021)

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D26178 50—THE BIRTHDAY TRIVIA GAME

Summersdale. 13.99 5.98 Most of the clocks in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4:20—True or False? How long is Ninety Mile Beach on New Zealand’s North Island? Which Canadian superstar, singing in French and representing Switzerland, won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988? This trivia deck presents 150 multiple choice question cards aimed at the fifty-something crowd, though there are plenty of random questions too, so everyone can join in.

D21608 THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CODEWORD PUZZLES Crack the Code and Solve the Puzzle

Nathan Haselbauer, intro. Robinson (pap) Import 6.98 In a codeword puzzle, each grid is made up of numbered squares, with each number corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. A few letters are given, but the rest must be discovered by using logic and word power to crack the code. The founder and president of the International High IQ Society, Nathan Haselbauer also provides fun variations in the form of dropouts, keywords, coded quotes, and long diversions. (480/2021)

Games & Puzzles D26179 60—THE BIRTHDAY TRIVIA GAME

Summersdale. 13.99 5.98 In the 1975 blockbuster film Jaws, who said “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”? How long did the Hundred Years’ War between England and France last? Which fishy hair style was big in the 1970s? If you grew up watching Batman, Bewitched, and Lost in Space, then you’re old enough to play this trivia game. The 150 multiple choice cards have an emphasis on events that sixty-ish folks will remember, along with random questions to level the field a bit.

D22930 JONATHAN ADLER INFINITY WOOD PUZZLE Galison. 9.98 Designer Jonathan Adler has a particular passion for 1960s op art style, which he puts to good use in the vibrant linear patterns of this wooden tray puzzle. The 22 chunky pieces can be arranged in the tray to recreate his original design, or rearranged a bit for some visual variations—or you can play around with them outside of the tray and invent whatever shapes and forms you wish. The puzzle tray measures 8½ inches square, and is presented in a stripy lidded keepsake box.

D23343 WHERE’S ELVIS? Find Him in 20 Pieces of Elvis-Inspired Art

Andrew Grant Jackson. Victor Bueren, illus. Thunder Bay (pap) 5.98 You can’t help falling in love with these challenging visual puzzles. Look for the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and many other performers and notable figures in 20 jam-packed drawings based on particular periods in Elvis Presley’s life and career, be it his service in the U.S. Army or an army of Elvis impersonators over Las Vegas. Each scene is accompanied by a list of people to look for and biographical anecdotes from music writer Andrew Grant Jackson. (96/2016)

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D22926 HOW TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 500 PIECE DOUBLE-SIDED PUZZLE

Caitlin Keegan, illus. Galison. 15.99 7.98 You might know how to cast a ballot, but do you know how the Electoral College works? Could you explain it to a youngster? Illustrated in a charming folk art style by Caitlin Keegan, this two-sided jigsaw traces the Road to the Presidency from the primaries to the general election to the Electoral College. This 500 piece puzzle is perfect for sharing with the family, with the added challenge of having images on both sides of the pieces (one side is glossy, the other matte, but that’s your only clue!). The finished puzzle measures 24 × 18 inches.

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D26186 STALLONE’S BIG FIGHT 1000 PIECE PUZZLE A Movie Jigsaw Puzzle

Sharmelan Murugiah, illus. Laurence King/Little White Lies. 19.99 9.98 “Yo, Adrian! You’re in this puzzle!” Maybe it’s been a while since you saw a Rocky movie, but there’s no denying Sylvester Stallone’s impact in Hollywood has been huge. In this jigsaw puzzle created by British movie magazine Little White Lies you can find Adrian Pennino and 34 other characters and performers, from James Brown and Mr. T to Cher and Sly’s brother Frank Stallone. The finished puzzle measures 27 × 19 inches, and includes a foldout poster full of Rocky facts.

D22932 LIBERTY LONDON MAXINE 500 PIECE D22966 DOUBLE SIDED PUZZLE WITH SHAPED PIECES ZERO GRAVITY Galison. 9.98 1000 PIECE PUZZLE WITH SHAPED PIECES For nearly 150 years, Liberty London has been a premier brand for innovative and eclectic designs, particularly in the realm of printed fabrics—two of which are featured on this unusual and challenging jigsaw. The 500 piece puzzle is double sided, and fifteen of the pieces are shaped like ships, sea turtles, jungle cats, and other icons found on a vintage illustrated explorer’s map. The reverse side is a fantasy pattern of monkeys, giraffes, and leopards, and the finished puzzle measures 20 inches square.

Ben Giles, illus. Galison. 26.99 7.98 Feeling spaced out? Let this planetary puzzle bring you ever so gently back to earth, with its lovely images and illustrations of celestial bodies and a single astronaut floating between them in zero gravity. The 1000 piece jigsaw includes 20 shaped pieces— planets, stars, and the astronaut as well—and when finished measures 27 × 20 inches.

D22936 NEEDLEPOINT A TO Z 1000 PIECE PANORAMIC PUZZLE Penny Candy, illus. Galison. 19.99 7.98 This charming and intriguing panoramic jigsaw is nearly a meter long—a full 39 inches, and nearly 14 inches high—and features an alphabet sampler composed of vintage needlepointed letters and numbers. We’re tempted to varnish this one when we’re done and hang it over the door. Like all of Galison’s quality jigsaws, the boxed puzzle includes an insert with the full image.

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D30051 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT GIFT SET Geometry Travel Journal & Passport Wallet

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Galison. 9.98 Going somewhere? This set makes a fine companion for the busy traveler, in sophisticated style. The wallet is designed to hold your passport, tickets, receipts, money, and cards, while the tall, slim journal is sized to be pocketable yet still offer plenty of writing space, with grid and lined pages. Both are wrapped in durable vegan leather covers with a signature geometric design by Frank Lloyd Wright in gold foil.

D23024 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT GILDED UNDATED PLANNER

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Galison (calendar) 16.99 6.98 Why wait until January to get organized? You can start putting your busy schedule together any day of the year with this lovely 13 month planner. Choose the month and week you wish to begin with on the undated grids, then label them however you’d like. The planner offers month-at-a-glance and week-ata-glance pages, paired with lined pages for your notes, all wrapped in an embossed art deco cover inspired by a Frank Lloyd Wright design, with gold foil accents and gilded page edges. You might even want to get extras, to carry on next year. 5¼ × 7¼ inches closed. (160/2018)

D23147 SIBLEY PLANNER

David Allen Sibley, illus. Clarkson Potter (journal) 14.99 5.98 Liven up your year with the spirited bird illustrations of ornithologist David Allen Sibley. Each week in this handsome paperback planner is spread across two pages, with blank boxes rather than lined ones— so you have room for a quick bird sketch, should the need arise. Even better, every five-week section begins with a painting by Sibley, full of avian character, and the 60-week planner is cleverly designed so you can start using it any day of the year. (160/2018)

HAM972 FITZROY’S STORM GLASS

Authentic Models. 39.95 When Admiral FitzRoy, former commander of the HMS Beagle, founded Britain’s Meteorological Office to provide forecasts for sailors, he recommended this sealed glass barometer for all seaports. FitzRoy’s storm glass would respond to prevailing weather conditions with beautiful crystal formations, and this authentic miniature version works like the original. Measuring just under 6 inches high on its wooden base, the storm glass makes an intriguing and attractive addition to your desk or bookshelf.

HAQ816 TINY GLASS RAINBOW

Art & Artifact. 17.95 The rainbow has symbolized hope since the days of Noah and the flood, and this lovely wee version—made by hand in Scotland—is solid glass, curved to sit on a desk, shelf, or windowsill. It is presented with a slip of paper that reads “After the storm, better days are coming,” and stands 2½ inches wide by 1½ inches high.

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LAMBS WOOL COUNTRY CHECK SCARVES

SCOTTISH TARTAN POCKET SCARVES

These gorgeous country check scarves are handmade from 100 percent lamb’s wool by Tweedmill of North Wales, and are every bit as soft and warm as you would expect. Nearly a foot wide, they are a bit over 6 feet long.

These authentic tartan scarves offer all the neck-warming comfort of fine merino wool, with two large pockets to warm your hands. Measuring 10 inches wide and more than 5 feet long, they come to us from the Patrick King Woollen Co. of Scotland.

D26192AR ARRAN SCARF (ORANGE)

HZ6462AB ANTIQUE BUCHANAN SCARF (YELLOW)

D26192MD MIDNIGHT SCARF (NAVY)

HZ6462NS NOVA SCOTIA SCARF (BLUE)

D26192SG SAGE SCARF (GREEN)

HZ6462RS ROYAL STUART SCARF (RED)

CASHMERE FINGERLESS GLOVES Knitted in Scotland from 100 percent cashmere wool, these soft fingerless gloves keep hands and wrists warm while leaving your fingertips and thumbs free to dig for keys, answer a phone call, type, turn pages, or open a water bottle. One size fits most women’s hands.

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FM4362 HOLIDAY PRETZEL RODS ASSORTMENT 20 Assorted Chocolate Pretzel Rods

Long Grove Confectionery Co. 29.99 The perfect combination of salty and sweet, these 7 inch pretzel rods are dipped in chocolate and decorated for the holidays. The assortment includes milk chocolate with white chocolate drizzle, white chocolate with milk chocolate drizzle, white chocolate with crushed candy cane, and dark chocolate with holiday sprinkles. The lidded jar contains 20 individually wrapped pretzels. Net weight 17 ounces.

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FM4392 CLASSIC ENGLISH TOFFEE Milk Chocolate Toffee with Pecans

Long Grove Confectionery Co. 29.99 Here’s a gift full of nutty, buttery, chocolatey goodness. This classic English toffee from Long Grove Confectionery Company has been a favorite for over 45 years, made with real butter, smooth milk chocolate, and chopped pecans for just the right crunch. With a net weight of 14 ounces, it’s presented in a white cube box with a broad red ribbon.

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HY7606 DIY MINI BOOKSTORE KIT

Robotime. 29.95 It is a dream for many of us—to have our very own bookstore. Here’s the next best thing: a miniature bookstore you build yourself, complete with bookshelves, cabinets, labels, wall décor, a shelf ladder, a table and vase, a wingback reading chair, even a working ceiling lamp. When finished, the bookstore measures about 7 × 9 × 7½ inches (in a dollhouse scale of ½ inch = 1 foot), so it can sit on the shelf right next to your favorite books. The kit contains all the materials you need (wood, cloth, printed paper, metal fittings, glue, LED lights and batteries) and even provides a paintbrush and tweezers. Recommended for ages 10 to adult (not for children under 4).

XD7862 MAGNIFIER SET OF 6

U.S. Nordic. 29.95 For those of us with a penchant for the miniscule (or who are simply vexed by tiny text), you can never have too many magnifiers about the house, and this fancy set includes 6 magnifiers of varying styles and strengths. Each has a different silver-plated handle and they range in size from 3½ inches long with a 1 inch lens to 5 inches long with a 1¾ inch lens (the smaller the lens, the higher the magnification, from 4X to 10X).

D22592 CHRISTMAS TREE PIROUETTES 3D CARD Santoro.

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HAX826 FELTED CAT COASTERS Set of 4

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Here’s a kitty you can trust with your teacups, or your tall glasses for that matter. The four hand-felted cat coasters in this set are full of cozy charm, ready to add a touch of whimsy to your coffee table. Made from a wool/polyester blend, they measure about 5 × 4 inches.

UT6842 FISH & NIPS CATNIP TOY Set of 2

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Though you wouldn’t actually give your feline companion battered fish and fries, this catnipstuffed Fish & Nips toy makes a fine treat—and there are two of them in the set (in case one gets lost behind the sofa, or you have two snacky cats). These 7 inch fabric fish are made in the USA and filled with clean catnip, grown without pesticides or chemicals.

XE4322 THE ANTIQUARIAN STICKER BOOK: BIBLIOPHILIA Over 1000 Exquisite & Erudite Stickers

XE1722 THE BOTANIST’S STICKER ANTHOLOGY

Pamela Afram, ed. DK (pap) 24.95 Tae Won Yu & Get lost in the beauty Daniel Nayeri. of the natural world Odd Dot (pap) 25.95 with this elegant hardThe follow-up to The bound collection of Antiquarian Sticker Book, more than a thousand this beautifully bound botanical stickers. The sticker treasury is dedipages are packed with cated to those who love vintage illustrations books, their decorations, and wallpapers of and their illustrations. Some of the bibliophilic connecornamental flowers, tions are obvious—a quote from Oscar Wilde, for example, tropical ferns, and other exotic plants, arranged or an illustration from Alice in Wonderland—while others under headings like Rainforest, Desert, Aquatic, are more implied, like a fancy illuminated capital letter, or a Garden, and Woodland. Decorate your scrapbook bizarre creature or strange scene that could inspire a tale of pages, journals, or stationery (the stickers are repoits own. Like the first volume, these superbly printed sticksitionable; we recommend using glue or decoupage ers are often unexpected, sometimes even startling, but all to make them permanent), or just leave these lovely have that essence of an object of wonder from another era. stickers in the book to peruse at your leisure. (300/2021) (323/2020)

WE3872 CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Over 1,000 Curated Stickers from the Fascinating Collections of the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Institution. Andrews McMeel. 40.00 A T. rex skull, a fantastic airship, a ring-tailed lemur, an image of Jupiter, an agate that looks like an eye—the Smithsonian Institution contains millions of items among its vast holdings, more than a thousand of which appear in this elegant hardcover sticker book. Use them in your art projects, scrapbooking, or correspondence—or just leave them in the book to peruse at leisure. Among the wildly diverse photos and illustrations here, you’ll find Victorian anatomy drawings and precious jewelry, vintage animal engravings and decorative page elements, alphabet letters made from mythical monsters and popular sheet music from a century ago. (304/2022)

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D23112 BRITAIN AT BAY The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938–1941

Alan Allport. Knopf. 35.00 9.98 Could World War II have been avoided? Could it have been lost? And how well did the British live up to their own values? Looking intimately at the changes in wartime British society and culture, Alan Allport draws on a large cast of characters— from the leading statesmen and military commanders who made the decisions, to the 46 million ordinary people who carried them out and lived through their consequences. For better or worse, Allport argues here, much of Britain today is ultimately the product of the first years of the war. “Expertly researched and marvelously written, this sterling history casts an oft-studied subject in a new light.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) (608/2020)

D21854 BUCK WHALEY’S MEMOIRS

Thomas Whaley. Nonsuch (pap) 5.98 “I was born with strong passions, a lively imaginative disposition and a spirit that could brook no restraint,” proclaimed Thomas “Buck” Whaley (1765–1800). A member of the Irish House of Commons, a big talker and a bon vivant, Whaley accepted a lucrative bet to travel to Jerusalem and back within two years, which—for both geographical and political reasons—was an extremely difficult trip. Written in 1797 but not published until 1906, Whaley’s memoirs are a colorful account of a life well lived. (64/2006)

D21743 GREAT TALES FROM BRITISH HISTORY: ON THE EVE OF THE TITANIC DISASTER

British D21738 CRIMINAL BRITAIN A Photographic History of the Country’s Most Notorious Crimes

Mirrorpix. History Press (pap) Import 7.98 We tend to think of Great Britain as being rather genteel, yet some of the world’s most lurid crimes have taken place there, and the names of many of the perpetrators are now synonymous with murder and mayhem. From the sensational trials of Dr. Crippen and George Joseph Smith, through the killings committed in World War II London by the likes of John Christie, John Haigh, Gordon Cummins, and Neville Heath, this chronological, photographic journey takes us to Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel haunts, the scene of the Great Train Robbery; and Hatton Garden, where an ambitious jewel heist was perpetrated by elderly burglars. (144/2019)

D21877 THE FACE OF BRITAIN The Nation Through Its Portraits

Simon Schama. Viking. Import 12.98 In this New York Times Notable Book of 2016—a companion volume to the five-part BBC television series and the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the same name—British historian and television presenter Simon Schama combines the two great passions that he explored in A History of Britain and Power of Art. Here are Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares, master portraitist Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly, the poet-artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn’t possess in life, a surgeon-artist making studies of wounded faces in World War I, and a naked John Lennon photographed just hours before his death. (448/2015)

D21744 GREAT TALES FROM BRITISH HISTORY: THE BRITONS CHALLENGE ROME

W.B. Bartlett. Amberley (pap) Patricia Southern. Import Amberley (pap) 4.98 Import The Edwardian era 4.98 essentially drew to a Julius Caesar’s invasion of close as the Titanic struck Britain was a significant an iceberg and sank event in Roman history, but in the North Atlantic. it can also be seen from Charting the catastrophe the perspective of those through the accounts of who were conquered. From survivors, W.B. Bartlett is first contact in 55 BC to able to build up a picture of events through the eyes the defeat of the warrior of third-class passengers and those who experienced queen Boudicca more than a century later, Patricia the tragedy moment by moment, from the first lurch Southern’s account captures key moments at the very to the scramble for life boats. (128/2014) heart of the British rebellion. (128/2015)

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D21609 LONDON: THE PANORAMAS

Mark Denton. Constable. Import 6.98 In London, the past and present go hand in hand, and in this collection, Mark Denton’s remarkable images bring out elements of the city’s rich heritage and renewal. Shot entirely with a classic panoramic camera, the majority of the images are taken in the magic hours of dusk and dawn, offering new interpretations of the most recognizable landmarks, including vistas from Tower 42, the Monuments, the Park Lane Hilton, and the London Eye, as well as new images of the great parks and open spaces. (224/2016)

D22606 MARY CHURCHILL’S WAR The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter

Emma Soames. John Murray (pap) Import 6.98 In 1939, 17-year-old Mary Churchill was uniquely placed to observe World War II as it unfolded, and her diaries provide a front-row view of the great events of war, as well as exchanges and intimate moments with her father. Compiled and edited by Mary’s daughter, Emma Soames, these writings also capture what it was like to be a young woman during wartime. An impulsive and spirited writer, full of coming-of-age self-consciousness and joie de vivre, Mary’s diaries bring to life the aid raid sirens at 10 Downing Street, cocktail parties with presidents and royals, and accompanying her father on key diplomatic trips. (416/2021)

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Andrew Marr D21800 THE DIAMOND QUEEN Elizabeth II and Her People

Andrew Marr. Pan (pap) Import 5.98 It is sometimes said that Britain’s king or queen is mostly a symbolic leader, yet Queen Elizabeth II remained squarely at the center of the state, both politically and culturally. Looking at aspects of the monarchy that the public doesn’t always see, Andrew Marr dissects the Queen’s political relationships—crucially those with her Prime Ministers—and examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth. Defending the relevance of the throne, Marr also makes the case that Elizabeth was instrumental in modernizing this venerable tradition for the 21st century. (448/2012)

D21779 ELIZABETHANS How Modern Britain Was Forged

Andrew Marr. William Collins. Import 7.98 There’s no doubt that figures like William Shakespeare and Francis Drake have shaped our view of Queen Elizabeth’s time, but who will define the Britain of today, concluding 70 years of a new Elizabethan era? Inspiring the BBC series, Andrew Marr’s history of the present examines the contributions of a wide range of Britons, including David Attenborough, Marcus Rashford, Jan Morris, Diana Dors, Bob Geldof, David Olusoga, Elizabeth David, Zaha Hadid, Frank Crichlow, Quentin Crisp, and Dusty Springfield. (512/2021)

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D22317 MY DEAREST, DEAREST ALBERT Queen Victoria’s Life Through Her Letters and Journals

Karen Dolby. Michael O’Mara. Import 7.98 Much as we may envision Queen Victoria as a dour widow, in private she had a reputation for being charming, fun-loving, and entertaining. From the age of 13, Victoria kept a daily journal, which by the time of her death ran to 122 volumes. These selections from her writings show Victoria at her most human, whether enthusing over her hobbies and interests, delighting in her children and grandchildren, commenting on the ten different Prime Ministers who served during her reign, or sharing her love for her husband Albert. (160/2019)

D22938 NO MAN’S LAND The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

British D22617 THE RAVENMASTER My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

Christopher Skaife. Picador (pap) 18.00 5.98 For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave, the Tower will crumble into dust, and great harm will befall the kingdom. One man is personally responsible for ensuring that such a disaster never comes to pass: the Ravenmaster, Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife. In this behind-the-scenes account of life with the ravens of the Tower, Skaife shares the folklore, history, and superstitions surrounding these mischievous, highly intelligent birds and their home. (272/2019)

D22607 SCOTT-LAND The Man Who Invented a Nation

Stuart Kelly. Birlinn (pap) Import 6.98 His name and image are everyWendy Moore. where—from Bank of Scotland Basic. 30.00 7.98 fivers to the monument in A month after war broke Edinburgh’s city center—yet out in 1914, doctors who reads Walter Scott these Flora Murray and Louisa days? The ninth child of a lawyer, Scott enjoyed Garrett Anderson set out phenomenal success with his novels Waverley, Rob for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury Roy, and Ivanhoe, but was often catastrophically hotel and treated casualties plucked from France’s in debt. Taking a voyage around Scotland, Stuart battlefields. Prior to the Great War, female doctors Kelly explores the enigma of Scott and the disparwere restricted to treating women and children, but ity between his influence and his status, his current Murray and Anderson’s work was so successful that standing and his cultural legacy. the British Army asked them to run a hospital in the “In a smart, refreshingly uncynical book, Kelly examheart of London. As Wendy Moore details here, the ines Scott, Scotland and himself in an intelligent, “Suffragettes’ Hospital” of Endell Street was staffed lively analysis of a great small country.” from top to bottom by women, and it soon became —The Times (London) (336/2021) known for its lifesaving treatments and lively atmosphere, and it remains a powerful reminder of what D23176 women can achieve against all odds. (368/2020)

D22944 THE QUEST FOR QUEEN MARY

James Pope-Hennessy. Hugo Vickers, ed. Hodder (pap) 17.99 6.98 When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary’s official biography in 1955, it opened the door to meetings with royalty, court members, and retainers around Europe. The resulting series of candid observations, secrets, and indiscretions contained in his notes were to be kept private for 50 years, and here at last, Hugo Vickers presents the funniest and most revealing portions of this portrait of the eccentric aristocracy of a bygone age. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos, this engrossing “director’s cut” offers much greater insight into Queen Mary than the official 1959 version, and includes sharply observed encounters with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia, and a young Queen Elizabeth II. (320/2019)

VICTORIA: THE QUEEN An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Julia Baird. Random House. 35.00 7.98 Fifth in line to the throne of England at the time of her birth in 1819, Victoria was an 18-year-old woman thrust into an extraordinary role: queen of a quarter of the world’s population. Even as her nation was reshaped by the Industrial Revolution and a growing tide of republican sentiment, the young queen redefined the monarchy itself, overstepping traditional boundaries and offering frank, forceful guidance to her ministers and subordinates. In this 2017 New York Times Best Book of the Year, Julia Baird shatters the longstanding image of the dour, joyless queen, depicting instead a woman who delighted in power, sex, and statecraft. Baird’s book also includes new information from the royal archives on Victoria’s controversial, intimate relationship with her servant John Brown. (752/2016)

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D22029 THE FAMILY TREE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF AMERICAN CITIES A City-by-City Atlas of US History: 1800–1920

Allison Dolan, ed. Family Tree. 34.99 7.98 Any attempt to trace our genealogy can easily become the study of a specific time and place, and this book proves the point by surveying American history through 16 cities, including New York, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and Baltimore. Each section features beautiful, full-color maps published at crucial points in each city’s history, tracing its growth and development from its founding to the early 1900s. Use the maps to find your ancestors’ homes and neighborhoods, while the guide also includes genealogy research tips for finding local birth, marriage, and death records; federal and state censuses; and city directories. (224/2017)

D23173 THE COLOR OF ABOLITION How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

Linda Hirshman. Mariner. 28.00 7.98 In the early years of Boston’s Abolitionist movement, eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass gave speeches to support the case for slaves’ freedom, journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation in his articles, and Maria Weston Chapman—known as “the Contessa”—raised money for Douglass’s speaking tour. As Linda Hirshman reveals here, however, the Bostonian abolitionists struggled with prejudice, splitting up this potent trio. Far from being a failure, Douglass’s departure from the city paved the way for him to become a national figure who could engage with 1860 presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. (330/2022)

D23159 ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER

Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz. William Morrow. 29.99 6.98 Leading the “Untouchables,” Eliot Ness had risen to fame in 1931 for putting Al Capone behind bars. Late in the summer of 1934, however, pieces of a woman’s body began washing up on the Lake Erie shore, and soon more bodies followed, all dismembered in gruesome ways. As Ness zeroed in on a suspect—a doctor linked to a prominent political family—powerful forces worked to thwart his quest for justice. Ness has become something of a modern folk hero, but this biography restores the humanity of this pioneering investigator up against what proved to be his toughest case. (558/2020)

D22484 THE BROKEN CONSTITUTION Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America

Noah Feldman. FSG. 30.00 7.98 Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution was a sacred text declaring the nation’s highest ideals. How did this come to pass? Here the author of The Three Lives of James Madison argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements, suspending civil liberties while using the armed forces against American citizens, all “to form a more perfect union.” (368/2021)

D23161 HIS GREATEST SPEECHES How Lincoln Moved the Nation

Diana Schaub. St. Martin’s. 27.99 6.98 With their grand, inspiring tone, Abraham Lincoln’s speeches are as moving to readers and listeners today as they were in his own era. But how well do we grasp their many nuances and their deeper meaning? Here Diana Schaub offers a brilliant line-by-line analysis of the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural, and the Lyceum Address— written 25 years before his presidency, when he was an Illinois state legislator. The result is a complete vision of Lincoln’s worldview, which was built upon the principles of the American Revolution and the need to resolve the issue of slavery. (204/2021)

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D23113 HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

S.C. Gwynne. Scribner (pap) 20.00 6.98 The Civil War’s final year altered the nation at every step, even as it changed the conduct of warfare forever. Making a fresh appraisal of our defining conflict, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon suggests that William Tecumseh Sherman was a poor general but the most visionary leader of the war, while Ulysses Grant’s greatest achievement occurred after the fighting stopped. Along with an inspiring look at how Black soldiers adapted to being soldiers in the Union Army, S.C. Gwynne also offers fresh profiles of Clara Barton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ben Butler, and John Singleton Mosby. (416/2020)

D22218 IT’S UP TO THE WOMEN

Eleanor Roosevelt. Jill Lepore, intro. Perseus (pap) 16.99 5.98 “Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world,” Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in this 1933 book, a practical guide for women during the Great Depression. She dishes out advice on budgeting time and money, cooking wholesome meals, maintaining a healthy home, and making the most of family time. Here too are sage reflections on empty nest syndrome and becoming a grandmother, while the First Lady entreats women to consider working outside the home to make ends meet, and to become involved in politics. In her introduction, Jill Lepore looks back at this key moment in Eleanor’s nascent public career. (256/2019)

D22573 LINCOLN’S MENTORS The Education of a Leader

Michael J. Gerhardt. Mariner. 32.50 7.98 In 1849, Representative Abraham Lincoln returned to Illinois, his political career all but finished. Yet within a decade, Lincoln would win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together during its most perilous period. How did it happen? As Michael Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln drew from the wisdom of Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor, learning an astonishing range of skills. Without these mentors, Gerhardt suggests here, Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and the United States as we know it may not have survived. (496/2021)

United States D23416 MAKE GOOD THE PROMISES Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies

Kinshasha Holman Conwill & Paul Gardullo, eds. Eric Foner, fwd. Amistad. 29.99 7.98 After the Civil War, millions of African Americans were determined to define themselves as equal citizens in a country without slavery—to own land, build secure families, and educate themselves. But those gains were short-lived, as segregation and discrimination confined them to second-class citizenship for decades. In this profusely illustrated companion to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, essays pay tribute to the important breakthroughs of such refromers as Frederick Douglass, Hiram Revels, and Ida B. Wells, while showing how the era influenced today’s social justice movements. (224/2021)

D23417 MASTER PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY IN 1 MINUTE A DAY

Dan Roberts. Familius (pap) 19.99 5.98 How many of the presidents were founding brothers? Who decided on America’s gold standard? And what was Lincoln’s nickname? Join Dan Roberts— the voice of the A Moment in Time radio series—on a bite-sized romp through the history of over 200 years of American Presidents. With just one minute a day, you can master all the essential facts of America’s greatest leaders, policies, conflicts, trivia, and more! Packed with full-color photographs, paintings, and lively mini essays, this armchair companion will get you up to speed. (480/2020)

D23418 NINE DAYS The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election

Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick. Picador (pap) 21.00 6.98 Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in at Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta. That day would lead to the first night King had ever spent in jail—and the time that King’s family most feared for his life. For John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, this pivotal moment in the civil rights movement could either make or break the race for the presidency. Here the authors of Douglass and Lincoln chronicle how a small group of influential figures worked the behind the scenes to save King and tilt the election in JFK’s favor. (352/2022)

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More by Tom Wolfe on page 24 D22790 THE SPYMASTERS How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future

Chris Whipple. Scribner (pap) 20.00 6.98 Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. Pulling back the curtain on the CIA’s leadership, Chris Whipple shows how the agency interacts with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. Whipple conducted interviews with nearly every living CIA director—including George Tenet, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and David Petraeus—and discusses cyberwarfare, attempts by presidents to use the agency for their own ends, strife in the Middle East and Asia, and rogue nuclear threats. (387/2021)

D22431 THE TAKING OF JEMIMA BOONE Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America

Matthew Pearl. HarperCollins. 27.99 7.98 On a summer day in 1776, 13-year-old Jemima Boone and two friends disappeared near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party had taken the girls as part of their ongoing war with settlers, but Hanging Maw recognized that Jemima—the daughter of Daniel Boone—was an especially valuable hostage. Even as Hanging Maw devised a plan that could bring greater peace to the region, Daniel Boone and his posse ambushed the raiders. Vividly capturing the spirit of the era, Matthew Pearl uses this dramatic encounter to illustrate the turmoil of America’s westward expansion. (272/2021)

D23178 YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST A Biography of George Washington

Alexis Coe. Penguin (pap) 17.00 5.98 He was first in the hearts of his countrymen, and George Washington is still memorialized for his bravery, selflessness, and undeniable dignity. Yet as Alexis Coe also finds, Washington was a pushy young soldier who sparked a worldwide war, an unsuccessful general, and the sort of man who named his dog “Sweetlips.” Puncturing many of the familiar myths about our first president, Coe brings humor and warmth to this biography, a brisk look at a Virginia farmer who was fated to change history. “A bewitching combination of erudition and cheek, [this book] is a playful, disruptive work of history.” —Jennifer Egan (304/2021)

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D22605 1922 Scenes from a Turbulent Year

Nick Rennison. Oldcastle (pap) Import 7.98 It was just a hundred years ago, but the events of 1922 reverberated throughout the 20th century and still affect us today. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after six centuries, while the British Empire, though at its greatest extent, began its long decline. The Soviet Union was created, and Mussolini made Italy the first fascist state. In the United States, Prohibition was at its height, radio was the new mass medium, and the Jazz Age had arrived. In his vividly written sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up an extraordinary year—we see T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses published, the tomb of King Tut discovered, and Adolf Hitler’s brief but formative imprisonment in Munich. (256/2022)

D23172 THE 10 GREATEST CONSPIRACIES OF ALL TIME Decoding History’s Unsolved Mysteries

Brad Meltzer. Workman (pap) 15.95 5.98 From Leonardo da Vinci’s stolen prophecy to the Kennedy assassination, Brad Meltzer offers accessible accounts of the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time. Illustrated throughout, this guide to unexplained questions that nag at history buffs and conspiracy lovers examines Hitler’s fixation on the mythical Roman Spear of Destiny, the fate of the Confederacy’s vanished gold, and the government’s top secret Area 51. For each, Meltzer sifts through the evidence, weighs competing theories, and separates what we know to be true and what’s still unprovable, to arrive at the most likely explanation. (214/2020)

D22603 AUGUSTUS From Revolutionary to Emperor

Adrian Goldsworthy. Orion (pap) Import 6.98 When Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC, Augustus was a mere teenager who had been adopted into his household. Proclaiming himself Caesar’s rightful successor, Augustus raised his own army and, after defeating Mark Antony in battle, became one of the three most powerful men in Rome. Over the next ten years he overthrew his rivals in 31 BC, and as the author of Philip and Alexander recounts, from that moment, Rome became an empire, and Augustus its first emperor. Here Adrian Goldsworthy tells the story of how one man rose to become the most powerful man in the world, and stabilized a nation that had been racked by decades of civil war. (624/2015)

D22192 THE BELLS OF OLD TOKYO Meditations on Time and a City

Anna Sherman. Picador. 28.00 7.98 From 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, Anna Sherman describes searching for the great bells by which the inhabitants of Edo, later called Tokyo, kept the hours in the shoguns’ city. Spanning the centuries, this “meditative exploration of time and change” (Wall Street Journal) contains the individual voices of a Tokugawa shogun, a woman remembering the firebombs of World War II, and a scientist who created the world’s most accurate clock. (352/2019)

D21352 BETHLEHEM Biography of a Town

Nicholas Blincoe. Constable (pap) Import 6.98 For many of us, Bethlehem remains the semi-legendary little town at the edge of the desert described in biblical accounts; today, however, it is a city hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by 41 Israeli settlements that are guarded by soldiers. Recounting Bethlehem’s history from the perspective of a resident, Nicholas Blincoe visits its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. Blincoe’s portrait of Bethlehem also sheds light on one of the world’s most intractable political problems, and he maintains that if the city’s link to its ancient past is severed, a vital opportunity to end the Palestine-Israel conflict may be lost with it. (288/2018)

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D23057 BLOOD RITES Origins and History of the Passions of War

Barbara Ehrenreich. Twelve (pap) 16.99 5.98 What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to become men? Here the author of Nickel and Dimed takes a journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century “total war.” Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place—not in a killer instinct unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores. (363/2020)

D23156 CHASING PHIL The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World’s Most Charming Con Man

D23174 THE CUBANS Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

Anthony DePalma. Penguin (pap) 16.00 4.98 David Howard. Cubans today, most of whom Crown. 28.00 6.98 have lived their entire lives In 1977, J.J. Wedick and Jack under the Castro regime, Brennan—two fresh-faced, are hesitantly embracing maverick FBI agents—were the future. Focusing on a about to embark on one of neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana, their agency’s first wire-wearing Anthony DePalma captures here the optimism as undercover missions. Their target? Charismatic, well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face as globetrotting con man Phil Kitzer, whom some called the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that the world’s greatest swindler. Traveling with Kitzer, Fidel railed against for so long. Most interestingly, the agents followed him to Cleveland, Miami, Hawaii, DePalma creates portraits of individuals, including Frankfurt, and the Bahamas. But as David Howard a black marketer, a loyal communist, an artist who reveals, the young agents, playing the role of proteges returned to Cuba from Mexico, and a Miami man and co-conspirators, became further entangled in Phil’s who lost 12 members of his family as they attemptoutrageous schemes, they also grew to respect and care ed to escape to freedom. (352/2021) for him, even as their endgame—the swindler’s arrest— was drawing near. (384/2017)

D21812 THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS And the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington. S & S (pap) Import 6.98 As ideological distinctions among nations have been replaced by cultural differences, world politics has been reconfigured. Across the globe, new conflicts and alliances have replaced the old order of the Cold War era. In this contemporary classic of political science, Samuel Huntington explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia are changing global politics, in opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals. Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture, and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, multicivilizational world. (368/2011)

D23160 FALLEN IDOLS Twelve Statues That Made History

Alex von Tunzelmann. HarperCollins. 26.99 6.98 In 2020, history came tumbling down worldwide, as protestors toppled statues of Robert E. Lee, Christopher Columbus, Winston Churchill, and dozens of other historical figures. As these iconic effigies fell, the backlash was swift and intense. Explaining why statues are not historical records but political statements, Alex von Tunzelmann distinguishes between statuary—the representation of “virtuous” individuals, usually “Great Men”—and other forms of public art. Along the way, she finds the humor and the human interest details in how we have treated statues of George Washington, Josef Stalin, and Saddam Hussein. (305/2021)

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D23411 HEIRESSES The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies

Laura Thompson. St. Martin’s. 29.99 7.98 Glamorous as they may sometimes seem, heiresses have traditionally been at the mercy of their husbands and societal norms. Looking more closely, this book includes portraits of Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress,” forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, who married seven times and died almost penniless; and newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of independence and achievement: Angela Burdett-Coutts, one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England, and Nancy Cunard, a pioneer of the civil rights movement. (378/2022)

D22929 THE INFERNAL LIBRARY On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy

D23322 THE ISLAMIC ENLIGHTENMENT The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

Christopher de Bellaigue. Liveright. 35.00 9.98 Despite persistent misconceptions that Islamic nations are inherently against progress, Christopher de Bellaigue argues that the Middle Eastern heartlands have long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of Western medicine, the emergence of women from seclusion, and the development of democracy. Structuring this history around Istanbul, Cairo, and Tehran, de Bellaigue directly challenges the oversimplified view of the Muslim world through the stories of philosophers, anti-clerics, journalists, and feminists who opened up their societies to political and intellectual emancipation. (432/2017)

D22547 THE POWER OF PLACE Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places

David Rollason. Princeton. 49.95 19.98 Daniel Kalder. One of the most Picador (pap) 20.00 5.98 meaningful ways to Though dictators have fully understand kings, been writing books since emperors, and popes is the Roman Empire, by the through the places that 20th century they were enjoying unprecedented they created, including print runs, with millions of copies read by (literally) tombs, palaces, and cities. Ranging across sixteen centuries captive audiences. The titans of the genre—Stalin, in Europe—from Prague to Seville, Palermo to the Oslo Mussolini, and Khomeini among them—produced Fjord—David Rollason examines how such places conmanifestos, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasion- veyed messages of power. Illustrated with dozens of imagal romance novel, establishing a literary tradition of es, this grand tour encompasses the 10th century city of boundless tedium that continues to this day. With Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba, the remarkably preserved an eye for the darkly funny world of totalitarianism, palace-church of Charlemagne in Aachen, and King Louis the author of Lost Cosmonaut delves into the innerIX’s soaring shrine-church of the Saint-Chapelle. most thoughts of Mao, Castro, Hussein, and Kim (488/2016) Jong-il, wondering how the production of literature became central to the running of regimes, and what these books reveal about the dictatorial soul. D21709 (400/2019) THE SECRETS

D23163 INSTANT HISTORY

Sandra Lawrence. Portable. 17.99 5.98 Much as we may want to have a firm grasp of history, it can be difficult to quickly absorb everything we want to know about several millennia of key thinkers, theories, discoveries, and concepts. Each page of this crash course in history contains a “cheat sheet,” which tells you the most important facts in bite-size chunks. From second-wave feminism to Stalinism, the invention of the car to the Battle of the Somme, every key event, character, or turning point is expressed in succinct and lively text, with helpful infographics. (176/2019)

OF SPIES Inside the Hidden World of International Agents

Heather Vescent, Adrian Gilbert, & Rob Colson. Weldon Owen. 35.00 12.98 From James Bond to Mata Hari, spies have always captured our imagination, whether in books and movies or on the front pages of newspapers. Shedding light on the true world of agents and espionage, this profusely illustrated overview examines some of history’s most notorious spies and spycatchers. Here are the stories of Sidney “Ace of Spies” Reilly, the Cambridge Five, and Virginia Hall, the unstoppable saboteur with a prosthetic leg, plus the scoop on such devices as the Enigma Machine and the Acoustic Kitty. (272/2020)

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D21755 THE RIGHT FLYER Gabriel Voisin, Henry Farman and the Archetype of Aeroplanes

Reg Winstone. Faustroll. Import 12.98 In 1907, Gabriel Voisin’s new biplane enabled aviator Henry Farman to make Europe’s first sustained powered flight. Illustrated throughout with large, rarely seen archival photos, this fascinating history delves into the airplane’s impact on society, culture, and politics in France, as a fledgling industry took shape. Reg Winstone offers detailed explanations of the technological developments involved along with engaging portraits of Voisin, Farman, and other pioneers of flight who pursued competing visions for the future of aviation. (360/2017)

D21872 THE TANK BOOK The Definitive Visual History of Armoured Vehicles

David Willey. The Tank Museum/ DK (pap) Import 19.98 The history of tanks is indeed a microcosm of how warfare has evolved over the past century, as well as a potent symbol of military might, and for many of us their visual and nostalgic appeal are irresistible. Produced by the United Kingdom’s Tank Museum and written by curator David Willey, this profusely illustrated book covers more than 400 tanks from the first prototypes to Challenger 2 and the unmanned vehicles and tanks of the future. The detail photos take you right inside a variety of tanks, putting you in the seat of some of the most formidable vehicles to ever go into battle. (256/2017)

D21761 TEN DAYS IN HARLEM Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

Simon Hall. Faber & Faber. Import 7.98 In September 1960, Fidel Castro visited Harlem, and was welcomed by the local African American community. Holding court at the Hotel Theresa, Cuba’s revolutionary hero hosted such figures as Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm X, and Allen Ginsberg. Then, during his address to the U.N. General Assembly—one of the longest speeches in the organization’s history—he promoted anti-imperialism with a fervor that made him an icon of the 1960s. In this look back at Castro’s formative years, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the Cold War, and a launching pad for the tumult of the decade that followed. (288/2020)

D21873 TITANIC UNSEEN Titanic and Her Contemporaries — Images from the Bell and Kempster Albums

Senan Molony, with Steve Raffield. Philip Bell & John Kempster, photos. History Press. Import 12.98 From the beginning, Titanic was intended to be a historic ship, and the dozens of photographs here capture this engineering achievement and showcase its luxury appointments. Early 20th century seamen and photographers Philip Bell and John Kempster leave us insights into what it meant to build, deploy, and operate the great White Star ships of the era. From the excitement of a launch to the lazy days of a long homeward haul from Australia, we see intimate details of life onboard and witness the dangers of an industrial shipyard. These rare photos from two extraordinary albums deepen our understanding of Titanic and this watershed moment in maritime history. (144/2016)

D22336 WITH EAGLES TO GLORY Napoleon and His German Allies in the 1809 Campaign

John H. Gill. Greenhill (pap) 34.95 12.98 When Napoleon’s Grand Armée went to war against the Habsburg Empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troops. With French troops depleted and debilitated after the long struggle in Spain, the Germans for the first time played a major combat role. Aiming at a union of German states under French protection to replace the decrepit Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon achieved a costly victory at Wagram. Focusing on 1809 in particular, John Gill depicts Napoleon at the apex of his power, and pays tribute to German soldiers who demonstrated tremendous skill, courage, and loyalty. (528/2018)

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D23151 AIR WAR MARKET GARDEN: THE SHRINKING PERIMETER

Martin Bowman. Pen & Sword. 39.95 7.98 Much like D-Day, 1944’s Operation Market Garden was a complex struggle that is best recounted in the words of the participants. This book draws on many individual soldiers and airmen’s narratives to tell the story of the ongoing fight to keep “Hell’s Highway” open to relieve 1st Airborne at Arnhem, and the brave attempts to re-supply them from the air. Here are tales of the Dutch housewife known as the “Angel of Arnhem” and the acts of chivalry that existed on both sides, even among such battle-hardened units as the SS Panzer Grenadiers. (214/2013)

D23297 ASSASSINATIONS ANTHOLOGY Plots and Murders That Would Have Changed the Course of WW2

John Grehan, ed. Frontline. 9.98 Before and during World War II, there were many attempts on Adolf Hitler’s life, any one of which could have succeeded and the whole of human history might have taken a different course. With contributions by Peter Tsouras, Nigel West, Adrian Gilbert, and others, the essays here are alternate histories, looking back on failed assassinations of Hirohito, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, and Josip Broz Tito, and envisioning the likely chain of events that would have followed if the attempts had succeeded. (200/2017)

D23405 A DELAYED LIFE The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz

Dita Kraus. Square Fish (pap) 17.99 5.98 Growing up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family, Dita Kraus went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different—until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family, and despite her youth, other prisoners began to entrust smuggled books to her. From her time in the children’s block of Auschwitz to her liberation from the camps and on into her eventful adulthood, Dita’s eloquent 2020 memoir is a remarkable testimonial from an incredible life. (339/2022)

World War II D23304 AN EAGLE’S ODYSSEY My Decade as a Pilot in Hitler’s Luftwaffe

Johannes Kaufmann. Richard Overy, fwd. Greenhill. 32.95 9.98 He became a pilot in a time of peace, yet Johannes Kaufmann served with the Luftwaffe all the way through World War II. As he recounts in this memoir, he survived 212 combat operations, seeing action in the attack on Poland, the battles of Arnhem and the Ardennes, the D-Day landings, and fighting against American heavy bombers in the Defense of the Reich campaign. Shedding light on the immense pressures of the job, Kaufman also offers graphic descriptions of being hopelessly lost in thick cloud above the Alps, and of following a line of telegraph poles half-buried in deep snow while searching for a place to land on the Stalingrad front. (288/2019)

D23311 GÖRING’S MAN IN PARIS The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

Jonathan Petropoulos. Yale. 37.50 12.98 At the request of Hermann Göring, Bruno Lohse (1911–2007) facilitated the systematic theft of more than 30,000 artworks—taken largely from French Jews—and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s, Lohse was officially de-nazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums—even as he stockpiled his own valuable collection of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro. Having spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse, Jonathan Petropoulos offers “a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted everyone he touched.” (NYTimes) (456/2021)

D23316 GREECE 1941 The Death Throes of Blitzkrieg

Jeffrey Plowman. Pen & Sword. 34.95 9.98 Early in World War II, the German Blitzkrieg appeared to smash through all resistance, but were these tactics really as devastating as they seemed? In 1941, the Germans overran Greece in three weeks, yet never managed to gain ascendancy over the token British and Anzac force sent to bolster the Greek army. As Jeffrey Plowman points out here, the Blitzkrieg had reached its strategic limit, and Greece’s defenders found ways of repelling and redirecting Germany’s aggressive attacks. (240/2019)

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D23318 HITLER AND THE HABSBURGS The Fuhrer’s Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

James Longo. Diversion. 25.99 7.98 Even as Hitler consolidated power and Germany began to absorb major pieces of Europe, he waged a personal war against the heirs to the extinct Hapsburg Empire. Franz Ferdinand’s sons were outspoken critics of the Nazi party and its racist ideology, and when Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau. Here James Longo also tells the story of the Archduke’s defiant daughter, Princess Sophie Hohenberg, and chronicles the family’s tenacity and personal courage in the face of betrayal, treachery, torture, and starvation. (336/2018)

D22601 HITLER’S SECRET WAR The Nazi Espionage Campaign Against the Allies

Charles Whiting. Canelo (pap) 6.98 During World War II there was a separate war of infiltration and misdirection, espionage and assassination, and the Nazis were determined not to let anyone best them. Many of these operations remained top secret, and were revealed only years after the war. Revealing the full extent of these secret intelligence networks, Charles Whiting explains the role of the Abwehr—Germany’s military intelligence bureau—and features interviews with key figures like Hermann Giskes, who fooled the Americans at the Battle of the Bulge, and Nikolaus Ritter, who stole the highly classified U.S. Norden bombsights. (301/2021)

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D23114 I WANT YOU TO KNOW WE’RE STILL HERE A Post-Holocaust Memoir

Esther Safran Foer. Crown. 27.00 6.98 For Esther Saran Foer, the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, a topic that her parents—both sole survivors of their respective families—never discussed. When Esther finds out that her father had a previous wife and daughter who were both killed in the Holocaust, she resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. In this National Jewish Book Award finalist, Esther shares what she finds, a revelation that reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn. (240/2020)

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D21341 MY NAME IS SELMA The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

Selma van de Perre. Scribner. 27.00 6.98 Being Jewish in the Netherlands had never been an issue before, but in 1941 it was a matter of life or death for 17 year old Selma van de Perre. After the rest of her family was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the camps, Selma dyed her hair blond, joined the Resistance movement, and took the name Margareta van der Kuit. As “Marga” recounts in this 2003 memoir, for two years she risked her life daily, doing what had to be done, but in July 1944 her luck ran out. Transported to Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp as a political prisoner, she would need a level of courage that she did not know she possessed. (224/2021)

D23169 OPERATION VENGEANCE The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II

Dan Hampton. William Morrow (pap) 17.99 5.98 In 1943, the United States military began to plan Operation Vengeance, targeting Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet and planner of the Pearl Harbor attack. Harvard-educated, Yamamoto was a close confidant of Emperor Hirohito and a brilliant tactician who epitomized Japanese military might. Chronicling one of the most tactically difficult operations of the war, the author of The Flight and Chasing the Demon re-creates the moment-by-moment drama that the American pilots experienced as they hunted one man in the vast expanses of Asia and the Pacific. (448/2021)

D23339 THE TRUTH ABOUT RUDOLF HESS

James Douglas-Hamilton. Pen & Sword. 9.98 Rudolf Hess’s flight to Britain in May 1941 stands out as one of the most intriguing and bizarre episodes of World War II. Exploring the many myths about this escapade, James Douglas-Hamilton traces the developments which persuaded Hess to undertake the flight without Hitler’s knowledge, and shows why he chose to approach the Duke of Hamilton. In this reissue of the 1971 edition, Douglas-Hamilton throws light on the importance of Albrecht Haushofer, one-time envoy to Hitler and personal advisor to Hess, who was eventually executed by the SS for his involvement in the German Resistance movement. (256/2016)

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D23298 AT HOME IN THE WORLD Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk’s Life

Thich Nhat Hanh. Parallax. 24.95 6.98 For more than six decades, Thich Nhat Hanh engaged people all over the world with his accessible approach to Buddhism and his devotion to peace. Looking back on his long life, Hanh teaches Dharma through 87 personal reflections and stories of his early years in Vietnam, and his formative experiences travelling around the world to teach mindfulness. In these thoughtful vignettes, Hanh uses his boyhood love of cookies as a springboard to discussing meditative eating, explains how (and why) he learned how to hug, inspires a Vietnam veteran to help disadvantaged children, and offers a thought-provoking view of the hereafter. (192/2016)

D23078 KABBALAH Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul

Harry Freedman. Bloomsbury. Import 7.98 Some know the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah only as a fashionable means to personal insight, popularized by celebrities. But behind the hype of “popKabbalah” lies an ancient, complex and profound system that can take a lifetime to fully explore. Harry Freedman’s introduction to Kabbalah untangles its complex history and spiritual tradition, tracing its teachings all the way back to the Hebrew Bible where the prophet Ezekiel detailed his vision of the heavenly throne, perceived as a chariot. “Welcome to the curious but fascinating world of Harry Freedman’s Kabbalah … a cheerfully nonpartisan, no-frills attempt at demystifying one of the world’s most mysterious, opaque and esoteric spiritual traditions.”—Spectator (304/2019)

D23428 THE LOST ART OF DOING NOTHING How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen

D23421 ON CONSOLATION Finding Solace in Dark Times

Michael Ignatieff. Metropolitan. 26.99 6.98 Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary. How do we console ourselves and each other in an age of unbelief ? Historian and writer Michael Ignatieff shows how figures in history, literature, music, and art have looked to one another across time to recover hope and resilience. From the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi, Ignatieff recreates the moments when great men and women found both the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue forward. “Consolation is so terribly important. Perhaps now more than ever. In this regard, Ignatieff has done us a great service with this moving and affecting series of reflections.”—LA Review of Books (284/2021)

D23330 PATRON SAINTS A Feast of Holy Cards

Barbara Calamari & Sandra di Pasqua. Abrams. 27.50 6.98 Maartje Willems. Lona Aadlers, For hundreds of years, illus. Laura Vroomen, trans. holy cards—images of The Experiment. 16.95 5.98 saints given as rememPlagued by nonstop pings and brances at wakes and notifications, we have lost the funerals, communions knack of zoning out, kicking back, slacking off. Even and confirmations— when pandemic lockdowns cleared our calendars, have offered comfort, many who thought “I’m free!” filled their days with consolation, and encouragement to Catholics, who Netflix and doomscrolling. How can we reclaim our free time (planned or not) to truly rest and reset? The sometimes carry their favorites with them. Holy cards are also a popular and collectible form of folk art, Dutch concept of niksen is the art of doing nothing, and this beautifully illustrated book presents color and it is an art you can learn. The opposite of proreproductions of 120 rare antique examples. They are ductivity, it makes your mind calmer, lets your body rest, and clears space for creative ideas. If you’re wait- arranged by their patronage, and each is accompanied by a brief profile describing their life and their roles ing for an invitation to go lie down in the sunshine, as patrons—some of them not what you’d expect. this book is it, with clear examples and lighthearted (160/2007) cartoons throughout. (156/2021)

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D23430 THE PASSOVER HAGGADAH An Ancient Story for Modern Times

Alana Newhouse & Tablet Magazine. Shai Azoulay, illus. Artisan (pap) 16.95 5.98 Each generation is called to perform a Passover Seder, proceeding step by step from a Haggadah to imagine experiencing the exodus from Egypt—although today, our tables often include people of different backgrounds, knowledge, and beliefs. This Haggadah, both traditional and intriguingly modern, presents the full text in Hebrew, English, and a new transliteration that makes the Hebrew easy to follow and speak along. Throughout, contemporary questions, illustrations, and meditations explore freedom, community, and other topics, prompting the whole group toward lively discussion—especially once you’ve started in on those obligatory four cups of wine. (144/2020)

D22050 PEARLS OF WISDOM Little Pieces of Advice (That Go a Long Way)

Barbara Bush. Twelve. 22.00 5.98 “In 80 years of living,” Barbara Bush once said, “I have survived 61 years of marriage to a husband who keeps jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. So, it’s just possible that along the way I’ve learned a thing or two.” She had indeed, and this collection makes us all privy to the advice that the former First Lady gave to friends and family, heads of state and Supreme Court justices. An endearing portrait of a matriarch from the Greatest Generation, this book is filled with irrefutable wisdom about kindness, humility, family, keeping a sense of humor, and growing older with grace. (211/2020)

D23331 THE POPES: EVERY QUESTION ANSWERED From Saint Peter to Pope Francis: The Fascinating Biographies of All 266 Popes

Rupert Matthews. Thunder Bay (pap) 14.99 5.98 Why is the papacy based in Rome? What is the Apostolic Succession, and who was the first pope to follow St. Peter? Which pope hired gladiators to slaughter his opponents in the papal election, and which exhumed the body of a previous pope to put his corpse on trial for heresy? What is an antipope, and who was Pope Joan? With color and black and white photos and artworks throughout, and a historical timeline running along the bottom of the pages, this book profiles all 266 popes of the Christian Church, from Peter (ca. 33–64), recognized as the first pope, to Francis I, who took his name to honor the humility of St. Francis of Assisi. (400/2019)

D22072 PRINCE OF DHARMA The Illustrated Life of The Buddha

Ranchor Prime. B.G. Sharma, illus. Mandala. 65.00 14.98 From Gautama Buddha’s birth as a prince to his final lesson in achieving nirvana, Ranchor Prime recounts here the life of one of the most influential men ever to have lived. Ornamented throughout with quotes from Ajahn Munindo’s A Dhammapada for Contemplation, this lovely edition also includes 60 color illustrations by B.G. Sharma. (144/2002)

D22157 SECRETS OF MEDITATION

Kim Davies & Richard Gilpin. Ivy. Import 4.98 The power of meditation has been harnessed for thousands of years to help train the mind for greater concentration and handling stress. This book draws on both secular and religious traditions, using ancient and modern-day techniques that make it easy to learn, understand, and apply meditative practice to your daily life. You’ll find commuter meditation, micro-meditations for children and parents, even chocolate meditation, as well as conscious listening exercises, offering ways to improve your relationships with loved ones, friends, colleagues, and strangers, while helping you to feel at ease in the wider world. (224/2017)

D23082 ZEN MASTER YUNMEN His Life and Essential Sayings

Urs App, trans. Shambhala (pap) Import 7.98 A 10th century master of the Chinese Zen (Chan) tradition, and one of the most influential teachers in its history, Yunmen Wenyan shows up in many famous koans, and is credited with the adage, “Every day is a good day.” In this modern Zen classic, historian and Buddhist scholar Urs App introduces Yunmen and translates his teachings, elucidating the encompassing and penetrating nature of his talks and dialogues. App also includes a brief history of Chinese Zen, a biography of the master, and a wealth of resource materials. (256/2018)

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D23608 BEAUTIFUL GOATS Portraits of Classic Breeds

Felicity Stockwell. Andrew Perris, photos. Ivy (pap) 12.99 5.98 If you’ve never thought of goats as supermodels, the color photos here will soon change your mind. Everyone will have a favorite, but the standouts include the British Guernsey, the Lamancha, the Anglo Nubian, and the pygmy, all described in individual texts. A succinct introduction looks at the history of the goat as a provider of skins, meat, and dairy—and its increasing role as pet and companion, too—while an appendix supplies the stories of the goats who modeled for this book. (112/2020)

D22462 CROAK A Book of Fun for Frog Lovers

Phil Bishop. Exisle. 19.99 5.98 From their expressive eyes to their dazzling colors, there is much to love about frogs, so maybe it is no surprise that the quotations collected here are so diverse. Alongside dozens of photographs of these humble yet marvelous animals, here are some apposite thoughts by Jane Goodall, Albert Einstein, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain, Lou Reed, Robin Williams, David Attenborough, and even Kermit the Frog. (160/2021)

D21339 OUR DOGS, OURSELVES The Story of a Singular Bond

Alexandra Horowitz. Scribner. 28.00 6.98 We keep dogs and are kept by them, and the love is (probably) mutual. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood, posits the author of Inside of a Dog, who explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing. Shedding light on the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs, Alexandra Horowitz notes how we celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness, and—despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs—legally they are property to be bought, sold, neutered, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. Finally, Horowitz examines the subtle but unmistakable ways that our dogs are changing us. (320/2019)

Tristan Gooley D21385 WILD SIGNS AND STAR PATHS 52 Keys That Will Open Your Eyes, Ears and Mind to the World Around You

Tristan Gooley. Sceptre (pap) Import 7.98 It is possible to sense your direction from stars and plants, forecast weather from woodland sounds, and predict the next action of an animal from its body language, posits the author of How to Read Water. Although once common, this awareness—essentially a sixth sense—has become rare, but in this illustrated guide, Tristan Gooley offers “keys” or exercises to help you become more attuned to your environment than you would have thought possible. Distilling practical wisdom gleaned from an extremely adventurous life lived out of doors, Gooley tells thought-provoking stories whose deeper points are applicable to the woods and the desert but also the office and the living room. (389/2018)

D21384 HOW TO READ WATER Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

Tristan Gooley. Sceptre (pap) Import 7.98 Distilled from his farflung adventures—sailing solo across the Atlantic, navigating with Omani tribespeople, canoeing in Borneo, and walking in his own backyard—the author of The Natural Navigator re-introduces us to water, our most ubiquitous resource yet among the least understood. In this bestselling, illustrated guide, Tristan Gooley offers hundreds of tips and suggestions, explaining how to use puddles to find magnetic North, spot dangerous water in the dark, and forecast the weather from watching the waves. Traversing the globe and referencing naval and scientific history, Gooley writes with contagious enthusiasm about the laws and principles that govern the activities of water, and provides memorable portraits of those who live on or near the sea. (376/2016)

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D23034 SILENT EARTH Averting the Insect Apocalypse

Dave Goulson. HarperCollins. 28.99 7.98 Many of us may have wished that mosquitoes or flies would just disappear forever, yet as entomologist Dave Goulson cautions, “If we lose the insects, then everything is going to collapse.” Drawing on 30 years of research, Goulson offers an accessible, fascinating book that examines the evidence of an alarming drop in insect numbers around the world—notably, honeybees and monarch butterflies—caused by the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides. Humanity’s food supply is threatened, and so here Goulson lays out suggestions for how to avert a looming ecological disaster of our own making. (328/2021)

D22958 THE TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

Lucy Cooke. Basic (pap) 16.99 5.98 Whether seeing a video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins “holding hands,” it’s hard for us not to project our own values—innocence, fidelity, temperance, hard work—onto animals. Likely you’ve never wondered if moose get drunk, penguins cheat on their mates, or worker ants lay about—and yet they do. BBC filmmaker Lucy Cooke takes a worldwide tour of the animal kingdom, smearing herself with hippo sweat and investigating a bizarre rumor about how hyenas are born, meeting everyone from an animal IQ tester in the Maasai Mara to a peddler of panda porn in China, all to lay bare the strangest bits of animal behavior. “Lucy Cooke’s modern bestiary is as well informed as you’d expect from an Oxford zoologist. It’s also downright funny.”—Richard Dawkins (352/2019)

D22964 THE WISDOM OF WOLVES Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack

Jim Dutcher. National Geographic. 26.00 6.98 For six years, Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived intimately with a pack of wolves in Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness, gaining their trust as no one has before. In this illustrated companion to their Emmywinning 1997 documentary Wolves at Our Door, the Dutchers reflect on the virtues they observed in wolf society and behavior, including kindness, teamwork, playfulness, respect, curiosity, and compassion. Their heartfelt stories combine into a thought-provoking meditation on the values shared between the human and the animal world. (224/2018)

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D22114 A WILD CHILD’S GUIDE TO ENDANGERED ANIMALS

Millie Marotta. Chronicle. 27.50 7.98 All around the world, animals are disappearing at an alarming rate, and while we are all aware of elephants and rhinos, many of these imperiled creatures are not well known. Highlighting the plight of 43 endangered species from around the world, Welsh artist Millie Marotta crafts stylish, meticulously textured images of such creatures as the Gobi bear, the tiger tail seahorse, the wandering albatross, Darwin’s fox, and the horned marsupial frog. Each animal is discussed in a text, while the book also contains further information on how to get involved in conservation efforts. (140/2019)

D23072 WILD LIFE! A Look at Nature’s Odd Ducks, Underfrogs, and Other At-Risk Species

Re:wild, with Syd Robinson. Adams. 16.99 5.98 Ever hear of the pinkheaded duck? What about Romeo the Frog, a type of rare water frog who found his mate with the help of an online dating photo? Our world is full of quirky, interesting animals who make our planet a vibrant, diverse place to live. This illustrated guide celebrates them by providing you with fun facts, conservation success stories, and profiles of people working hard to find and protect the rarest of these species, which include the European hamster, the Crau plain grasshopper, the cave salamander, and the Mallorcan midwife toad. (256/2021)

D23344 WINGS IN THE LIGHT Wild Butterflies in North America

David Lee Myers. Yale. 35.00 9.98 What’s it like to look a butterfly in the eye? Beautifully illustrated and scientifically rigorous, this is a close-up visual guide to the butterflies of North America. David Lee Myers’s photography captures these insects in their natural habitats, offering a firsthand look at how they appear in the wild. Featuring a hundred different butterflies, the book highlights the importance of studying them as indicator species, and discusses not only the taxonomy and biology of lepidoptera but also the importance of conserving butterfly habitats. (288/2019)

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D22608 THE DAWN OF LANGUAGE The Story of How We Came to Talk

Sverker Johansson. Quercus (pap) Import 6.98 Our intellectual and physiological changes through the process of evolution both have a bearing on our ability to acquire language. But to what extent is language dependent on genes, or on environment? How is language changing now, in the process of globalization? And which aspects of language ensure that robots are not yet intelligent enough to reconstruct how language has evolved? Drawing on evidence from archaeology, anthropology, neurology, and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these threads together to show how our human ancestors became language users. (432/2021)

D23118 BREATH TAKING

Michael J. Stephen. Grove. 26.00 6.98 We take an average of some 600 million breaths in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. “Our lungs are the lynchpin between our bodies and the outside world,” writes pulmonologist Michael Stephen. And yet, we take our lungs for granted until we’re incapacitated and suddenly confronted with their vital importance. Here Stephen relates the history of oxygen on Earth and the evolutionary origins of breathing, while exploring the healing power of breath and its spiritual potential. (320/2021)

D23404 A DEATH IN THE RAINFOREST How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

D22974 GRAVE SECRETS OF DINOSAURS Soft Tissues and Hard Science

Phillip Manning. National Geographic (pap) 16.95 6.98 Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and fossils, but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Drawing on new breakthroughs and cutting-edge techniques of analysis, paleontologist Phillip Manning presents the most astonishing dinosaur fossil excavations of the past 100 years—including the recent discovery of a remarkably intact dinosaur mummy in the Badlands of North Dakota. While detailing the tremendous efforts needed to uncover these dinosaurs, Manning also reveals how scientists are now able to create lifelike portraits of them. (320/2009)

D20892 INSTANT SCIENCE

Jennifer Crouch. Portable. 17.99 5.98 Maybe you aren’t going to actually become a scientist, but it is possible to be conversant on many of mankind’s Don Kulick. greatest intellectual Algonquin (pap) 16.95 4.98 breakthroughs. In this As a young anthropologist, Don guide, each page conKulick went to the tiny village tains a distinct “cheat of Gapun in New Guinea to sheet,” which tells you document the death of the native language, Tayap. Over the course of 30 years, as he returned again and the most important facts in bite-size chunks. From Marie Curie to neuroscience, from gravity to climate again to study a language spoken by less than 100 change, every key figure, discovery, or invention is natives, he found himself inexorably drawn into the explained with succinct and lively text, while a variety lives and world of the Gapuners. In this thoughtful account, Kulick takes us inside the village as he came of graphics will help you to understand the broader subject at a glance. (176/2020) to know it, revealing the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and detailing why he had to give up his study of this people and their language. “Kulick wears his scholar’s hat casually in this deeply personal, engaging inquiry.... A sad and uplifting, ultimately poignant exploration.”—Kirkus Reviews (277/2020)

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D22951 SCIENCE The Definitive Visual Guide, 2nd Edition

Adam Hart-Davis, ed. Smithsonian/DK. 50.00 19.98 From the humble beginnings of science, right through to today’s information age, this profusely illustrated Smithsonian guide surveys the milestones of astronomy, biology, geology, meteorology, and mathematics. Included here are profiles of great scientists like Zhang Heng, Isaac Newton, and Marie Curie, plus explanations of how our understanding of the world has been transformed by Greek geometry, the first powered flight, the splitting of the atom, quantum physics, genetic engineering, and the detection of gravitational waves. (512/2016)

D23027 KINDRED Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Bloomsbury. 28.00 6.98 Since their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Our perception of the Neanderthal has changed dramatically, but despite growing scientific curiosity and popular culture fascination, are we getting the whole story? Bringing together a wealth of information, Rebecca Wragg Sykes reintroduces Neanderthals, exploring the enduring mysteries of how they lived and died, and answering the biggest question of them all: their relationship with modern humans. (400/2020)

D23414 LIFE’S EDGE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

Carl Zimmer. Dutton. 28.00 6.98 We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about brains, zygotes, and pandemic viruses, the more complex the issue becomes. The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts, including whether a fertilized egg is a living person, and when a person is considered legally dead. As the author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh points out, chemists are creating droplets that can sense their environment and multiply. Have they made life in the lab? Charting our fascination with such Frankenstein monsters, Carl Zimmer finds a wide array of answers. (348/2021)

D23032 PUMP A Natural History of the Heart

Bill Schutt. Algonquin. 26.95 7.98 Blue whales have hearts the size of golf carts, while some frog hearts can freeze solid for weeks, resuming their beat only after a spring thaw. In this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells an incredible story of evolution and scientific progress. Schutt also traces humanity’s cardiac fascination from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians—who believed that the heart contains the soul—all the way up to modern-day laboratories, where scientists use animal hearts as the basis for many of today’s most advanced therapies. (271/2021)

D23145 WEATHER TRACKER Backyard Meteorologist’s Logbook

Leslie Horvitz. Barron’s (spiral) 16.99 4.98 Talking about the weather is as old as mankind, and since we might as well know what we’re talking about, this illustrated introductory guide explains the fundamentals of meteorology and offers pointers on weather prediction. Also included are recommended equipment for armchair meteorologists and explanations of the different cloud types, plus a 104-page logbook section (52 two-page spreads) provides space for charting weather-related data for a full calendar year. (224/2007)

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D23419 NOISE A Flaw in Human Judgment

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass R. Sunstein. Little, Brown. 32.00 7.98 Imagine that two doctors give different diagnoses to identical patients, two judges give different sentences to people who have committed the same crime, or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who answers the phone. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical. Reviewing the detrimental effects of noise in many fields—economic forecasting, forensic science, bail, child protection, performance reviews, and personnel selection—this book suggests that people can reduce both noise and bias, and make far better decisions. (454/2021)

D22423 THE HOSPITAL Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

Brian Alexander. St. Martin’s. 28.99 6.98 Still recovering from the Great Recession, an Ohio hospital is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination. As the CEO fights for the hospital’s independence and local leaders address the town’s problems, a 39-year-old diabetic literally fights for his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies dying in the emergency room. With these and other stories, Brian Alexander strips away the issues of policy to reveal Americans’ struggle for health against a system that’s stacked against them, yet so fragile it collapses when the pandemic hits. (307/2021)

D22862 MAKING UP YOUR OWN MIND Thinking Effectively Through Creative Puzzle-Solving

Edward B. Burger. Princeton. 19.95 6.98 We solve countless problems every day, but with so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisions—much less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Is there a practical way to learn to think more effectively and creatively? In this enlightening book, Edward Burger offers new ways to look at realworld problems by presenting innovative puzzles that make use of simple but effective thinking techniques. (136/2018)

D23058 DIRTY WORK Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

Eyal Press. FSG. 28.00 7.98 Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the United States’ most violent prisons. As Eyal Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name. In examining how who winds up working these jobs and the risks—including PTSD and social stigmas—Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America. (303/2021)

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D22226 NIGHT SKY WITH THE NAKED EYE How to Find Planets, Constellations, Satellites and Other Night Sky Wonders Without a Telescope

Bob King. Page Street (pap) 21.99 7.98 Gain a deeper appreciation of the universe with this guide to naked-eye stargazing, abundantly illustrated with color photos or drawings on nearly every twopage spread. Better known to his online readers as Astro Bob, astronomy journalist Bob King here makes cosmic mysteries practical, explaining how to spot the International Space Station, forecast an aurora, and observe a meteor shower, along with such traditional night-sky activities as following moon phases and identifying the bright planets, stars, and constellations. King includes tips on how to photograph satellites, eclipses, and the aurora, as well as fun activities and recommendations for astronomy apps and websites. (224/2016)

D23406 ASTRONOMICAL MINDFULNESS Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets

Christopher G. De Pree & Sarah Scoles. HarperCollins. 24.99 6.98 Modern humans have lost the deep connection to the cosmos that was once central to our daily lives, helping us to determine our perception of time and place. Offering a concise yet in-depth look at the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars, this guide teaches us to observe and understand the elements comprising the celestial sphere—deepening our lives and helping us become more informed, engaged, and mindful every day. (211/2022)

D21863 THE LAST STARGAZERS The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Emily Levesque. Oneworld. Import 9.98 Throughout history and around the world, humans have craned their necks each night, using the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange cosmos around them. From Copernicus to Carl Sagan, astronomers have spent their lives trying to answer the biggest questions about stars and planets. Showing the creative and passionate side of this high-flown science, Emily Levesque shares stories of modern-day stargazers willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet in order to decode the mysteries of the universe. (336/2020)

D22369 MAPPING THE PLANETS Discovering the Worlds Beyond Our Own

Anne Rooney. Arcturus. 19.99 6.98 Even as telescopes now enable us to glimpse far corners of the universe, astronomy has throughout history been particularly a quest to the map our own solar system. Beginning with an ancient Babylonian’s charting of the movement of Venus and Galileo’s discovery of Saturn’s moons, Anne Rooney takes a journey through the history of planetary exploration, including the modern use of rovers, flybys, and spectroscopy. Illustrated with maps, drawings, paintings, and high-resolution photographs, Rooney’s text also explains the technology behind how exoplanets are now routinely being discovered. (192/2020)

D22303 NORTH The Rise & Fall of the Polar Cosmos

Gyrus. Strange Attractor (pap) 20.95 5.98 From H.P. Lovecraft to Philip Pullman, popular culture is rife with the mystique of the North. Why does it command such fascination? How far into the past do its roots extend? Ranging from the Stone Age to the Space Age, Gyrus—a British maverick with boundlessly curiosity—offers a bold vision of cosmology that maps how the pole star became associated with artistic creation, political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies. (320/2014)

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D22968 A BEAR SAT ON MY PORCH TODAY

Jane Yolen. Rilla Alexander, illus. Chronicle. 17.99 5.98 What would you do if a rather insistent bear made himself at home on your porch today? Followed in short order by a shaggy squirrel, a spraying skunk, a playful possum, a big blue moose, and a bunch of other forest critters? Just how many animals can one porch hold? Jane Yolen’s hilarious read aloud tale has plenty of repetitive phrases for prereaders to chime in with, like “Boo! Shoo! What should I do?” and “Okay. Okay! You can stay!” Rilla Alexander pictures the tale in exuberant digital cartoons with a simple color palette, and a double gatefold that spreads out for four feet of fun. (32/2018)

D22159 LITTLE MISS AUSTEN: PRIDE & PREJUDICE

Jennifer Adams. Alison Oliver, illus. Gibbs Smith (board book) 12.99 6.98 Using scenes from Pride & Prejudice, introduce your budding bibliophile to the world of Jane Austen and the basics of counting to ten. Stroll through 1 English village to meet 2 rich gentlemen and discover what happens when the 5 Bennet sisters encounter 4 marriage proposals! Alison Oliver’s charming illustrations accompany Jennifer Adams’ clever, simple text to create a fun and unconventional counting book. (22/2019)

D22221 LOVED TO BITS

Teresa Heapy. Katie Cleminson, illus. Roaring Brook. 17.99 4.98 “My teddy’s special. Stripy Ted. / He’s not allowed to leave my bed.” Celebrating an important relationship in the lives of preschoolers, this endearing tale follows the imaginary adventures of a boy and his teddy bear, as they explore mountains and jungles and outrun all manner of dragons and wild animals. In time, the teddy becomes old and worn-out, yet his best friend only loves him better for it. In her paintings Katie Cleminson captures the snug intimacy of home and the joyous adventures of their fantasy world. (32/2018)

D22935 MR. LION DRESSES UP!

Britta Teckentrup. Twirl (board book) 12.99 4.98 Mr. Lion is invited to a party. But what will he wear? His mischievous friend Monkey offers many suggestions—how about a handsome suit? Striped pajamas? A superhero costume—or maybe an evening gown? In this hilarious romp for prereaders from Britta Teckentrup, illustrated with her elegantly simple collage cartoons, each page has a cutout for Mr. Lion’s face, which shows through from the last page. More than just a die-cut gimmick, it emphasizes the idea that Mr. Lion remains himself, no matter what outfit he chooses. (36/2020)

D26172 MY FIRST TOUCH AND FEEL PICTURE CARDS: NUMBERS AND COUNTING DK (boxed) 5.98

It’s never too early to start learning how to count, and these 16 colorful flashcards with tactile elements are perfect for giving toddlers a head start in developing early language skills as well. The images are of objects that babies love—cars, balloons, and flowers—and each card includes pronunciations in English, Spanish, French, German and Chinese. A parents’ guide contains ideas for simple and advanced games to enhance the learning experience, and the set is packaged in a sturdy box with an adhesive closure. (16/2005)

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D21803 SIR SCALLYWAG AND THE BATTLE OF STINKY BOTTOM

Giles Andreae. Korky Paul, illus. Puffin. Import 5.98 King Colin has set his sights on a Golden Sausage that will make him live forever. Unfortunately, it is guarded by hundreds of angry trolls. There’s only one boy for the job—enter Sir Scallywag! Turning the traditional medieval clichés on their head, this zany tale for readers 4 to 8 features Korky Paul’s wry cartoons of the madcap king and his undersized yet valiant knight, battling the odds to obtain magical meat. (32/2015)

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D22362 WILD BIOS: AMELIA HAREHART An Animalistic Introduction to One of History’s Greatest Figures

Courtney Acampora & Maggie Fischer. Bonnie Pang, illus. Silver Dolphin (board book) 3.98 Breaking records and always setting new goals to achieve, Amelia Harehart was an inspiration. At a time when women rarely piloted a hareplane, Amelia didn’t “carrot all” what others thought, and she set off to pursue her dream. Illustrator Bonnie Pang creates a cheerful bunny aviator, whose friends are other woodland animals. (16/2019)

D20902 WILD BIOS: EDGAR ALLAN CROW An Animalistic Introduction to One of History’s Greatest Figures

Courtney Acampora & Maggie Fischer. Laura Godwin. Amanda Enright, illus. Julian Hector, illus. Silver Dolphin (board book) 3.98 Disney Hyperion A group of crows is called a murder, and no one (board book) 3.98 knows murder quite like the “master of macawbre,” “This is the construction Edgar Allan Crow. Paying tribute to the author of worker. These are her “The Raven,” Amanda Enright cleverly creates a clothes. This is the hard hat. And boots—with steel toes! These are the gloves 19th-century world populated only by birds.(16/2020) and the bright orange vest. This is the tool belt—and D22364 now she is dressed!” Prereaders can follow this conWILD BIOS: struction worker through her day, as she and her crew NEIL ARMSWAN work together on a multistory building that grows An Animalistic taller and taller, while using plenty of heavy equipIntroduction to ment to get the job done. Laura Godwin’s simple, One of History’s declarative sentences have a rhyme and rhythm to pull Greatest Figures young listeners along, and Julian Hector’s shaded carCourtney Acampora & toon images remind us just a bit of the heroic workMaggie Fischer. ers in vintage WPA posters. (24/2019) Zoe Persico, illus. Silver Dolphin (board book) 3.98 Flying toward the future with beak held high, Neil D22984 Armswan was a model astronaut and pioneer in THIS PLANE space travel, leaving webbed footprints on the Paul Collicutt. moon. Somewhat recalling classic Disney cartoons, FSG (board book) Zoe Persico’s joy-filled illustrations bring the heroic 7.99 3.98 Apollo 11 mission to life. (16/2019) In this board book for prereaders—a follow-up to D22363 This Train—Paul Collicutt WILD BIOS: WILLIAM depicts 22 realistic airplanes in full-page paintings. SHEEPSPEARE Short sentences compare their essential qualities An Animalistic (“This plane is made of paper. / This plane is made Introduction to of wood and canvas. / This plane is made of metal.”) One of History’s and differences (“This plane has propellers. / This Greatest Figures plane has jet engines.”). Though they have fanciful Courtney Acampora & colors and markings, Collicutt has modeled his illusMaggie Fischer. trations on actual aircraft, and young enthusiasts will Benedetta Capriotti, illus. be pleased to find that the end pages contain thumb3.98 nail paintings of 20 historical planes. (30/2016) Silver Dolphin (board book) Despite being a woolly herd animal, William Sheepspeare’s themes have resonated with humans down through the centuries. Dive into the life of the eloquent Baa-rd of Avon and the plays that shaped our language today, illustrated with tongue in cheek humor by Benedetta Capriotti. (16/2019)

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Ages 4-8 D22848 DANCE ME A STORY Twelve Tales from the Classic Ballets

Jane Rosenberg. Merrill Ashley, intro. Thames & Hudson (pap) 19.95 5.98 Through her graceful illustrations and retellings—describing the scene and the movements of the characters onstage as well as what they say and what happens—Jane Rosenberg presents a dozen classical ballets as picture book stories for readers 6 to 9. Here are the romantic arabesques of Giselle and the classical attitudes of The Sleeping Beauty, as well as Cinderella, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker. Each tale includes pagefilling watercolors in which sets, costumes, and lighting are depicted in detail, with additional brush drawings of particular dance positions, recreating the experience of attending the ballet. “A beautiful guide…. The richly detailed watercolor illustrations … evoke the mood and atmosphere of each ballet.”—Prima Ballerina (128/1995)

D20926 THE CANTANKEROUS CROW

Lennart Hellsing & Poul Stroyer. Thames & Hudson. 19.95 4.98 After being caught eating a farmer’s cherries, Crow is put to work, but this difficult bird chopped up a flagpole for kindling, poured water on the cat’s head, and went on a wild wagon ride with the farmer’s son that almost ended in disaster. Crow didn’t do much better by a baker who tried him out as an apprentice, but he was glad to fly back to his very unusual family, who welcomed him in their own special way. Originally published in 1953, this lively tale for readers 4 to 8 features the whimsical cartoons of Danish artist Poul Stroyer. (28/2016)

D22909 CATS ARE A LIQUID

Rebecca Donnelly. Misa Saburi, illus. Henry Holt. 17.99 4.98 Just the title of this book makes us laugh—anyone who’s ever loved a cat knows how oozy they can be. Inspired by a satirical scientific investigation of how cats behave like a liquid (which won an Ig Nobel Prize, by the way), this book for readers up to 7 considers the physical properties of liquids and also celebrates cats in all their flowing, furry glory. “Cats fill. Cats spill. Cats flow downhill. Cats tip. Cats drip. Cats grip, snip, rip. Cats are a liquid, except when they’re not.” Misa Saburi’s cartoon felines are irresistible, whether filling up bowls or wrapped around their owners, and you might learn a thing or two about physics here, too. (32/2019)

D22728 CROWBAR The Smartest Bird in the World

Jean Craighead George. Wendell Minor, illus. Katherine Tegen. 17.99 5.98 A young boy finds a baby crow that is abandoned, cold, and hungry. He takes him home, hoping to nurse him back to health. His Grandpa disapproves—he thinks that crows are pests and thieves! The boy knows that the bird he names “Crowbar” is capable of learning more than how to eat, caw, and fly. But can he prove it? Brought to life in realistic graphite and gouache images by veteran illustrator Wendell Minor, this book for readers 5 to 8 from the author of My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves includes additional information about these fascinating birds. (32/2021)

D22913 DOGS AND THEIR PEOPLE

Anne Lambelet. Page Street. 17.99 4.98 “On beautiful days, when the sun is shining, I like to take the long way home from school,” says the girl we meet at the start of this story, who loves to see all the people and dogs she passes on the way. Some dogs look just like their people and some are very different—there are small people with tall dogs, people and dogs who share ice cream, and even pairs with matching mustaches—but it’s clear that they’re the best of friends. When she arrives home, she has her own best friend waiting for her, but it might not be who you’d think. Anne Lambelet fills this tale for readers 4 to 8 with quirky, expressive cartoons, and her dogs are adorable. (32/2019)

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D22963 THE VERY FLUFFY KITTY, PAPILLON

A.N. Kang. Disney Hyperion. 16.99 4.98 “Papillon is a big kitty. He is not fat. Just very fluffy. I mean fluffy! He is lighter than air, which can get him into trouble.” So begins the lighthearted tale of Papillon, whose unseen owner Miss Tilly is always worried he’s going to float away one day. Delicious treats don’t weigh him down, and he refuses to wear any clothes. Then one day, Papillon sees a little red bird and floats up to make friends—and gets lost. Could his new little friend help him get back home? A.N. Kang’s feline puffball is utterly beguiling in this tale for readers up to 7, and her watercolor and pencil drawings are just as open and airy. (40/2016)

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D22934 MAKE A WISH, HENRY BEAR

Liam Francis Walsh. Roaring Brook. 17.99 4.98 Henry Bear has very unusual parents. They encourage him to stay up all night, eat chocolate cake at every meal, and get into trouble with his teacher. It sounds like fun—but what will Henry Bear do when he grows tired of indulging in childish things? New Yorker cartoonist Liam Francis Walsh gives us a droll tale about making wishes with unanticipated consequences. Though it’s intended for readers and listeners up to 7, don’t be surprised if older kids gravitate to Walsh’s gorgeously drawn bear world, based on the narrow winding streets and tile roofs of Ticino, Switzerland, where he now lives. (40/2019)

D22937 NIGHT TRAIN A Journey from Dusk to Dawn

Annie Cronin Romano. A.N. Kang. Page Street. Disney Hyperion. 17.99 4.98 16.99 4.98 The words are The day started rhythmic, lullhappily, as ing, and full of Papillon—the sound in the free verse poetry of this book, while the kitty so fluffy he cinematic imagery—sweeping views of twilight skies floats in the air—and his bird friend played kung fu and lights in the night—makes it a pleasure for adults air kicks and yarn softball and catch. Then Papillon as much as youngsters up to 7. The story takes us accidentally swallows a toy mouse, and becomes so along on a vintage steam train traveling from a city to weighed down, he’s grounded. Not to mention all the a small town, with varied landscapes and subtle shifts hiccups. Poor Papillon! Miss Tilly takes him to the vet, of color transitioning from dusk to night to dawn. and that’s scary too—until Papillon meets some other Train and travel fans young and old will find authentic cats, and sees the special things they can do. We love railway details included in the text and art. (32/2019) A.N. Kang’s big fluffy sweetheart, and her watercolor and pencil drawings are assured and delightful in this second Papillon book, for readers up to 7. (40/2017)

D22754 MISS LADY BIRD’S WILDFLOWERS How a First Lady Changed America

Kathi Appelt. Joy Fisher Hein, illus. Harper. 17.99 4.98 During her childhood in the Piney Woods of East Texas, Lady Bird Johnson loved wildflowers with all her heart. Later, as First Lady, she sought to bring the beauty of wildflowers to America’s cities and highways, and she wanted to make sure every child could enjoy the splendor of nature. In this warm, engaging look at the life of a great First Lady for readers 5 to 8, Kathi Appelt tells the story behind Lady Bird Johnson’s environmental vision, while Joy Fisher Hein’s colorful, ornate paintings of wildflowers burst from every page. (40/2004)

D22939 OLIVER The Second-Largest Living Thing on Earth

Josh Crute. John Taesoo Kim, illus. Page Street. 17.99 4.98 Oh, Oliver. No matter how much he stretches his limbs in winter, lifts logs in the spring, soaks up sun in the summer, or munches mulch in the fall, he’ll never be bigger than Sherman—and nobody ever notices the second biggest tree in Sequoia National Park. But in this tale for readers 4 to 7, Oliver finds some new friends that help him discover he’s been part of something larger all along. In their first picture book, full of witty observations in the text and the illustrations, Josh Crute and John Taesoo Kim tackle the familiar feeling of being in someone’s shadow, and even provide a few real-world “seconds” at the end. (32/2018)

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D22940 THE ONLY FISH IN THE SEA

Philip C. Stead. Matthew Cordell, illus. Roaring Brook. 17.99 4.98 Did you hear about little Amy Scott? She got a goldfish for her birthday and then just threw it in the ocean! That doesn’t seem right. Outraged, Sherman and Sadie will have to go save little Ellsworth (every fish deserves a proper name) on their own. With a crew of not altogether helpful monkeys, the duo sets out on the high seas, encountering sharks, a whale, and a giant squid. Can they find little Ellsworth before it’s too late? Reminding us just a bit of Quentin Blake’s artwork, Matthew Cordell’s ink and watercolor illustrations bring a madcap energy to this delightfully zany tale for readers 4 to 8. (32/2017)

D22758 OWL LOVE YOU

Matthew Heroux. Wednesday Kirwan, illus. Cameron & Company. 16.95 5.98 The sun is setting, time to rise! At dusk, when an owl’s day is just beginning, a baby owl asks questions and a mama owl offers comforting answers in this gentle, reverse bedtime book. With a coziness reminiscent of Sam McBratney’s Guess How Much I Love You, this book for readers and listeners up to 6 pairs Matthew Heroux’s lulling, lyrical text and his wife Wednesday Kirwan’s luminous illustrations of the nighttime world. “Heroux’s simple rhymes are a good bet for beginning readers…. Kirwan’s painterly illustrations capture a lovely middle-of-the-night feeling with a deep, dark palette.”—Kirkus Reviews (32/2018)

D22957 THROUGH WITH THE ZOO

Jacob Grant. Feiwel & Friends. 16.99 4.98 Goat has always dreamed of having his very own space, but he lives in a petting zoo, surrounded by hugs and rubs and grabby little hands. Determined to find his perfect alone space, Goat escapes into the big zoo. But in this charming tale for readers up to 7, Goat tries unsuccessfully to live with a clingy koala, a noisy elephant, as well as penguins, monkeys, and bears. When he finally finds a secluded tree, Goat’s initial delight turns into a feeling of loneliness—and a chance to reevaluate what he needs. In his illustrations, Jacob Grant gives his little goat particularly expressive eyes, and his children are shown as charming, affectionate tots. (40/2017)

Ages 4-8 D22960 ULTIMATE SPOTLIGHT: ASTRONAUTS

Sophie Dussaussois. Marc-Étienne Peintre, illus. Twirl. 16.99 6.98 Young space fans 5 to 8 can blast off with this interactive tour of a contemporary astronaut’s job in space. There are 20 moving features— pull a tab to launch a rocket, lift a flap to see inside a spacesuit, or open a pop-up to land the capsule safely on the ground. Read about astronauts learning to pilot a spacecraft, getting used to being weightless, going on a space walk, and repairing the space station. The digital illustrations offer plenty of detail, including several cross-sections and an expanded gatefold view of the interior of a space station. (14/2019)

D22961 ULTIMATE SPOTLIGHT: DINOSAURS

Sandra Laboucarie. Deborah Pinto, illus. Twirl. 16.99 6.98 Where do those big dinosaur skeletons in the museum come from? How do we know about what they ate, or how they lived? And what is a fossil, anyway? In this interactive guide, readers 5 to 8 can visit an excavation site to see what paleontologists do to learn about prehistoric creatures. Pull the tab to dig for fossils and put together dinosaur bones, spin the wheel to identify dinosaurs, and open a pop-up to find out how they lived. There are lots of moving features and foldout pages here to bring the world of dinosaurs and the people who study them to life. (14/2018)

D22808 WHAT DO GROWN-UPS DO ALL DAY?

Virginie Morgand. Quarto. 22.99 5.98 It is a question that inquisitive readers 4 to 8 are likely to ask, and this book answers it with general introductions to the professions associated with such workplaces as a hospital (doctor, midwife, physical therapist); university (provost, astronomer, lecturer); theater (actor, usher, make-up artist); and construction (architect, carpenter, electrician). Shown in colorful retro illustrations, the other sites explored here include a school, a farm, a hotel, an airport, a gym, and a concert hall. (64/2016)

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D23195 DISCOVERY GLOBE: BUILD-YOUR-OWN GLOBE KIT Leon Gray. Sarah Edmonds, illus. Candlewick (set) 22.99 6.98 Discover more about people and places around the world with this hands-on kit for armchair travelers, containing all you need to make a spinning globe, along with an illustrated companion atlas. Made of sturdy cardstock, the globe features icons labeling features from natural wonders to historical figures, keyed to topics that can be explored in more detail in the atlas. The book also explores themes like the earth’s biomes, wild animals, and World Heritage sites. (48pp/2018)

D22175 THE KINGFISHER SCIENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA Revised and Updated 4th Edition

D22956 THOMAS PAINE AND THE DANGEROUS WORD

Sarah Jane Marsh. Edwin Fotheringham, Clive Gifford, illus. Carole Scott, Little, Brown. Charles Taylor, et al. 19.99 5.98 Kingfisher. As an English corset34.99 9.98 maker’s son, Thomas Written by a team Paine was expected to of experts, with well spend his life sewing over a thousand underwear. But as a captioned photos, illustrations, cutaway drawings, teenager, a meeting with Benjamin Franklin brought and diagrams, this one-volume encyclopedia explains Paine to America in 1774—and into the Revolution. scientific principles, concepts, and facts in an engagIllustrated with Edwin Fotheringham’s expressive ing way for readers 9 to adult. It is packed with infor- cartoons, this biography for readers 8 to 12 follows mation about scientific discoveries, principles, and Paine as he publishes Common Sense, a brash wake-up inventions, under headings like Planet Earth, Living call that rallied the American people to declare indeThings, Human Biology, Light and Energy, Space and pendence against the mightiest empire in the world. Time, and Conservation and the Environment, while (80/2018) a reference section offers mini-biographies of important scientists, units and conversion tables, a glossary, D21592 and an index. (496/2017) THE ULTIMATE

D21121 OUR COUNTRY’S PRESIDENTS A Complete Encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidency, 2020 Edition

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Anne-Sophie Baumann. Twirl. 9.98 Few topics intrigue readers 4 to 8 as much as outer space, and Ann Bausum. learning about National Geographic. the universe is 24.99 7.98 pure pleasure The story of America with this intercan be told through active book. its presidents, and Beginning here this illustrated guide on Earth with a look at some important telescopes, for readers 9 to 12 profiles all 45 chief executives this guide also showcases some of the most imporfrom Washington to Biden, with timelines and descrip- tant spacecraft in history, and then moves on to show tions of crucial events during their terms. Illustrated our planet in the context of our solar system and throughout, the book also includes a look at the histo- the Milky Way. Throughout this colorful overview, ry of voting rights, plus information on how elections pop-ups, moveable pieces, and 40 pull-tabs bring into are conducted, how the impeachment process works, focus the wonder of the International Space Station, and how to write a letter to the president. (224/2021) Apollo 17, and the Curiosity Rover. (24/2016)

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D23611 A BOX OF ORCHIDS: 100 BEAUTIFUL POSTCARDS

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Ivy (notecards) 19.99 7.98 One of every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid, some stunningly dramatic, others remarkably inconspicuous. Produced in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this boxed set of postcards presents 100 different examples of Orchidaceae, each one beautifully photographed against a white background. The 4 × 6 inch cards are filed in a flip-top case with alphabetical tabs and an information booklet.

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D23010 THE STORY OF THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF A Celebration of a National Obsession

Anita Singh. Head of Zeus. Import 7.98 Take one big tent. Fill it with twelve amateur bakers. Garnish with one venerable cookery writer, one blue-eyed bread-maker, and two comedy queens with a love of innuendo, and you have the recipe for the most popular food program of our times. This companion to the GBBO is the ultimate fan book; from bread lions to “Bingate,” heart throbs to Twitter trolls, soggy bottoms to sticky buns, these are the moments we remember, with oodles of personal observations from presenters and bakers alike. (240/2018)

D23483 ROYAL BINGO

Holly Exley, illus. Laurence King. 29.99 12.98 Who will be the first to get their royals in a row? This majestically illustrated bingo game features portraits of 64 royal icons from around the world. Spot famous faces like William or Kate, or meet less familiar figures like the playboy prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein—and not just European royalty, but also the courts of Jordan, Brunei, and Malaysia. You can read about these royals in the accompanying booklet, and the set includes 64 illustrated tiles, a master board, a draw bag, 12 player cards, and adorable paper crowns for marking them.