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D30555 THE ORIGINAL BAMBI The Story of a Life in the Forest

Felix Salten. Jack Zipes, trans. Alenka Sottler, illus. Princeton. 24.95 9.98 Roderick Floud. For generations, most Knopf Doubleday. of us have known 40.00 14.98 Bambi as the innocent The history of young deer in Walt England’s gardens is the Disney’s animated film history of the nation and children’s books. itself, assays Roderick But the original 1922 work from Austrian writer Floud in this illustrated survey of how an art form Felix Salten (né Siegmund Salzmann) was an allebecame a world-class industry. Focusing on the past gory of marginalized peoples, more somber and four centuries, Floud discusses William and Mary, who complex than the adaptations that followed it. brought Dutch bulbs to Britain; William, who lowered Illustrated with exquisite block prints, Jack Zipes’s his entire garden to better see the river; Queen Anne, new translation gives us a fresh perspective on who vowed to spend little on her gardens and instead Salten’s tale of alienation. He also traces the history spent millions; and Queen Victoria, who built the most of the book’s reception and explores the author’s advanced kitchen garden of her era. In this sweeping life as a hunter who loved animals and a Jew who look at flowers and finance, here too are such legendsought acceptance in Viennese society even as he ary figures as Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, and faced persecution. (192/2022) Lancelot “Capability” Brown. (432/2021)

D30746 THE COMPLETE FICTION OF H.P. LOVECRAFT

H.P. Lovecraft. Race Point. 29.99 14.98 For the brave reader embarking upon the stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), there is a dark thrill to be found in his interlocking tales of the Cthulhu mythos, in which unwary explorers come face to face with sinister beings from beyond space and time. Collecting all of HPL’s fiction in a slipcased cloth edition, this collection features such classics as “The Call of Cthulhu,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Rats in the Walls,” “Herbert West— Reanimator,” “Pickman’s Model,” “The Dunwich Horror,” and his lone novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Lovecraft was also brilliant at writing traditional fantasy, and from that less familiar side of his canon, here are “The Silver Key” and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” (1102/2014)

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D30628 IRON EMPIRES Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

Michael Hiltzik. Houghton Mifflin. 30.00 7.98 When the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan sparked stock market frenzies and crashes, while transforming the nation’s geography. As Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik recounts, the four-decade battle between the robber barons also produced dramatic, lasting changes in the interplay of business and government. (424/2020)

D30762 THE FACEMAKER A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI

Lindsey Fitzharris. FSG. 30.00 7.98 When the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. In this “heartbreaking and inspiring” account (Wall Street Journal), Lindsey Fitzharris profiles pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who established one of the first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. Exploring Gillies’s ingenious surgical innovations, Fitzharris also tells the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. (336/2022)

D30740 VICTORIAN MAPS OF ENGLAND The County and City Maps of Thomas Moule

Thomas Moule. John Lee, ed. Batsford. 34.95 14.98 Among the finest Victorian mapmakers, Thomas Moule created beautifully observed county and city maps that present a minutely detailed record of 19th-century England. Moule noted the history of each county by including pastoral or monument views within the maps, all framed by cartouches, festoons, and architectural ornament in a variety of historical styles. This large-format edition reproduces 55 maps (each 15½ × 12 inches) of such locales as Cornwall, Yorkshire, Middlesex, and the Isle of Wight, alongside his original texts on the regions. Supplemental essays trace Moule’s career and reflect on this pivotal historical moment before the Industrial Revolution radically changed the pastoral world celebrated in these illustrations. (144/2018)

D30629 ON DEMOCRACY

E.B. White. Martha White, ed. Jon Meacham, intro. Harper. 24.99 6.98 “I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.” Many decades before our current political turmoil, E.B. White crafted eloquent yet practical political statements that continue to resonate. “There’s only one kind of press that’s any good—a press free from any taint of the government.” With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems includes such highlights as “Not Conforming to Facts,” “Definition of Fascism,” and “Democracy Is Destructible.” These selections from one of this country’s most eminent literary voices offers much-needed historical context for our current state of the nation—and hope for the future of our society. (240/2019)

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D30562 THE WRINKLE IN TIME BOXED SET Includes 5 Books and an Exclusive Journal

Madeleine L’Engle. Taeeun Yoo, illus. Square Fish (boxed) 14.98 Before there was Harry Potter, before Redwall or The Amber Spyglass, there was Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Medal winner A Wrinkle in Time. L’Engle followed this novel with three more, A Wind in the Door, the American Book Award winner A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters, joined by the next-generation sequel An Acceptable Time to produce the Time Quintet. Read and loved by generations of readers 10 and up (and more than a few grown-ups), these adventures of the Murry and O’Keefe families combine theology, fantasy, and science to tell a sophisticated but very human story of travel through space and time to battle a cosmic evil with intelligence and love. This boxed set includes a hardcover journal decorated with the series cover art of Taeeun Yoo. (1529/2018)

D30713 THE ILLUSTRATED RAMAYANA The Timeless Epic of Duty, Love, and Redemption

Bibek Debroy, foreword. DK. 50.00 24.98 The ancient Sanskrit text of the Ramayana is part of India’s founding literature—the tale of Rama, an exiled prince who battles the wicked Ravana and rescues his abducted wife Sita. More than a battle of good and evil, it is a saga of love, friendship, loyalty, devotion, righteousness, and deliverance, embedded in India’s cultural consciousness yet transcending its borders. This illustrated edition was created in consultation with economist, scholar, and translator Bibek Debroy, drawing from one of the Ramayana’s earliest composers, the sage Valmiki, combining the text with images of artifacts, paintings, photos, and performers. (392/2021)

D30745 THE WORLD TREASURY OF FAIRY TALES & FOLKLORE A Family Heirloom of Stories to Inspire and Entertain

William Gray, with Joanna Gilar & Rose Williamson. Wellfleet. 39.99 14.98 An important cultural tradition that spans the centuries, fairy tales and folktales also serve as a link to our own childhoods, making them particularly enjoyable to share with younger readers. This handsomely produced anthology includes 50 stories by such authors as Hans Christian Andersen (“The Tinderbox,” “The Brave Tin Soldier”), Charles Perrault (“Red Riding Hood”), the Brothers Grimm (“Snow White”), Oscar Wilde (“The Selfish Giant”), Robert Louis Stevenson (“The Touchstone”), and Andrew Lang (“The Snake Prince”). Here too are tales from Native American cultures and from such locales as Norway, Russia, Flanders, Australia, India, and Japan. Fausto Bianchi’s dramatic digital watercolors illustrate most of these tales, while his elegant silhouettes grace the texts. (400/2018)

D30557 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS

Gertrude Stein. Maira Kalman, illus. Penguin. 30.00 9.98 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 avant-garde, 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. “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) (320/2020)

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D30560 CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES The Complete Plates in Colour 1734–1765

Albertus Seba. Taschen (pap) 34.99 9.98 As an apothecary in 18th century Amsterdam, Albertus Seba was at the forefront of the natural sciences, and acquired thousands of specimens from all over the world—butterflies, seashells, snakes, and even monstrous oddities— for his cabinet of curiosities. He also had them illustrated, and later catalogued his famed collection in four volumes. From the superb hand-colored copy held at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, Taschen reprinted Seba’s 446 commissioned copperplate engravings in an enormous (and expensive) 2001 edition; it is presented here in a more manageable size, but with the same attention to color and detail. (743/2019)

D23233 CARPE EVERY DIEM The Best Graduation Advice from More Than 100 Commencement Speeches

Robie Rogge. Clarkson Potter. 12.99 4.98 You’ve graduated, commencement is over—now how does your life commence? For any grads in your life, this book is more than a keepsake; it distills the wisdom of graduation speakers from Barack Obama to Gloria Steinem to Kermit the Frog into powerful life advice. George Saunders riffs on his youthful “failures of kindness,” encouraging grads to be kinder, while Jimmy Buffet says more succinctly, “Be Santa Claus when you can.” But here too are conflicting ideals (Neil Gaiman encourages us to “make good art” while John Waters calls for stirring outrage), amid inspiration from Angela Davis, David Foster Wallace, Oprah Winfrey, Mitch Albom, and Spike Lee. (128/2021)

D30544 SPRING WILDFLOWERS OF THE NORTHEAST A Natural History

Carol Gracie. Eric Lamont, foreword. Princeton (pap) 29.95 14.98 In spring, spectacular wildflowers emerge throughout the northeastern portion of the continent. Offering scientific and historical information, Carole Gracie discusses such beauties as the columbine, celandine poppy, blue-eyed mary, and bird’s-foot-violet, plus such striking plants as jack-in-the-pulpit, lady slippers, wild ginger, and squaw root. More than 500 color photographs are included, along with a glossary of terms. (296/2020)

D30543 SUMMER WILDFLOWERS OF THE NORTHEAST A Natural History

Carol Gracie. Robert Naczi, foreword. Princeton (pap) 29.95 14.98 Offering an in-depth introduction to summer-blooming wildflowers of the northeastern United States and Canada, this encyclopedic collection features more than 700 color photos. In richly detailed essays, Carol Gracie delves into the life histories of more than 35 wildflowers and their relatives, from common roadside favorites like Queen Anne’s lace, asters, and milkweeds, to interesting, lesser-known species, including Indian pipe, wild lupine, and grass-of-Parnassus. (384/2020)

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D30660 THE MADNESS OF CROWDS A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny. Minotaur. 28.99 5.98 While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines are skiing and tobogganing, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache finds his holiday interrupted by a simple request: to provide security for a visiting statistics professor lecturing at the university. In this 17th outing (after All the Devils Are Here), Professor Abigail Robinson has an agenda so hateful that it seems to poison everyone’s outlook. When a murder is committed, Gamache and his team must investigate in an atmosphere of tension and anger, and even the inspector will face accusations of cowardice. (448/2021)

D30437 MURDER IS IN THE AIR A Kate Shackleton Mystery

Frances Brody. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Ever since the end of the Great War, North Yorkshire brewers have selected a charismatic female employee to be a local queen and the face of their industry. This year’s queen, clerk Ruth Parnaby, invites Kate Shackleton and her niece Harriet to accompany her to a garden party. But after a pub delivery man is found dead in the fermentation room, the list of suspects includes Ruth’s father. Following The Body on the Train, this 12th mystery is murky, at best, and it’s going to take Kate at her keenest to decipher the truth. (336/2020)

D30547 TRACE ELEMENTS A Comissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon. Grove. 27.00 6.98 In her final moments, a dying hospice patient gasps that her husband was murdered over “bad money,” and Commissario Brunetti promises he will look into this family tragedy. In this 29th investigation (following Unto Us a Son Is Given), he discovers that the man worked for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice’s water supply, and that he had recently died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Piecing together the tangled threads, Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman’s accusation, and a looming threat to the entire region. (320/2020)

D30662 AN IRISH HOSTAGE A Bess Crawford Mystery

Charles Todd. William Morrow. 27.99 5.98 The Great War is over—but in Ireland, in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, anyone who served with Britain is now thought a traitor, including nurse Eileen Flynn and ex-soldier Michael Sullivan, who plan to marry in the village where she grew up. Bess Crawford has come to see Eileen wed, despite the risk, but in this 12th mystery (following A Cruel Deception), the groom has vanished—and then a body is found. Eileen begs for her help, but in this bitterly divided land, with no one on her side except Eileen’s outlaw cousin, how can Bess possibly save herself, much less stop a killer? (336/2021)

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D30450 AND BY FIRE

Evie Hawtrey. Crooked Lane. 27.99 5.98 Detective Inspector Nigella Parker of London’s City Police has both a deeply rooted fear of fire and a talent for solving arson cases. When a charred body is found beside Christopher Wren’s towering Monument to the Great Fire, Nigella is reluctantly pitted against a murderous artist. With her former lover Colm O’Leary of Scotland Yard, she finds links to the coldest of cold cases: a bookseller gone missing in 1666 during the Great Fire. In this clever parallel mystery, we see two investigators of that time also tracking his disappearance—but can their sleuthing from 350 years ago help Nigella catch this diabolical modern-day killer? (336/2022)

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D30664 BARK OF NIGHT An Andy Carpenter Mystery

David Rosenfelt. Minotaur. 27.99 5.98 When defense lawyer Andy Carpenter’s veterinarian asks to speak to him privately at the checkup of his golden retriever Tara, the last thing Andy expects to encounter is Truman, a French bulldog. Days ago, a man dropped him off with instructions to euthanize the healthy Frenchie. But in this 19th outing (after Deck the Hounds), Andy finds the dog’s true owner is dead, so it’s up to him—with help from his loyal sidekick Tara and now Truman—to track down a dog-hating murderer. (304/2019)

D30454 BEAR WITNESS An Alaska Untamed Mystery

Lark O. Jensen. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 On Stacie Calder’s tugboat sightseeing tour, her passengers routinely see glaciers and polar bears, but Darcie Wilde. one afternoon, they also Kensington. 26.00 4.98 notice a man lying dead in When a packet of highly the frigid Alaskan waters, sensitive letters are stolen and it seems likely that from Lady Melbourne, she someone gave him a fatal push. Stacie even recogasks Rosalind Thorne’s help, nizes him—he had been arguing incessantly with the in this third case set in Jane boat’s crew, and so they are all suspects now. Making Austen’s London (following her debut, Stacie (and her huskie, Sasha) must deduce A Purely Private Matter). The letters concern the lady’s daughter-in-law, the unstable Caroline Lamb, who had just who sent the testy tourist tumbling, or else the (320/2022) an affair with poet Lord Byron. Ever discreet, Rosalind police might just pin the crime on her poses as Melbourne’s secretary to catch the thief, but after a woman is poisoned nearby, she will also have to D30456 find a blackmailer and murderer. (352/2019) A BOTANIST’S

D30663 AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW A Rosalind Thorne Mystery

D30563 AN ANONYMOUS GIRL

Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen. St. Martin’s. 27.99 5.98 Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shields’s experiments blurs. In this thriller by the authors of The Wife Between Us, Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking, and her behavior will be monitored and even manipulated. Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly. (384/2019) s dalu Dae ks Boo

GUIDE TO PARTIES AND POISONS A Saffron Everleigh Mystery

Kate Khavari. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Frustrated by the bigotry of 1920s London academia, newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh gets an unexpected opportunity to prove herself in this debut mystery. At a dinner party, one of the professors’ wives falls dead, poisoned by an unknown toxin. When Saffron’s mentor, Dr. Maxwell, is named as a suspect, she enlists handsome fellow researcher Alexander Ashton to help her, and she will need all her knowledge of botany as she explores steamy greenhouses and dark gardens to clear Maxwell’s name. (272/2022)

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D30665 THE BROKEN SPINE A Beloved Bookroom Mystery

Dorothy St. James. Berkley. 26.00 4.98 When the library where she works is turned into a bookless “futuristic technology center,” Trudell Becket is outraged, and so she sets up a secret book room in the basement and opens it to anyone who shares her love of the printed word. After the councilman behind the de-booking of the library is found dead, though, Trudell might just get booked by the police—she was in the library when he died. With the help of some committed readers, Trudell will have to hurry to clear her name and save the secret stash of imperiled books. (320/2021)

D30448 CROOKED IN HIS WAYS A Lightner and Law Mystery

S.M. Goodwin. Crooked Lane. 27.99 5.98 Albert Beauchamp disappeared in 1856, just before Christmas; when he reappears more than a year later, he’s in several pieces, packed in a shipping crate in New Orleans. In this sequel to Absence of Mercy, set in the Tammany Hall era of New York City, inspectors Jasper Lightner and Hieronymus Law find that Beauchamp had a lot of friends, but each had a reason to hate him. Following leads that reach back to the 1840s, the two uncover society scandals that still threaten the city’s bigwigs, and a blackmailer who is willing to kill again. (336/2021)

D23349 CITY OF SCHEMES A Counterfeit Lady Novel

Victoria Thompson. Berkley. 26.00 5.98 The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends now discharged from the army. One of them, Captain Logan Carstens, fell in love with a woman named Noelle while he was stationed in France. When Logan receives a letter from Noelle begging for money, Elizabeth is suspicious. But in this fourth adventure (after City of Deceit), a vicious thug from Elizabeth’s less-than-honest past has gotten wind of the wedding, and now she and Gideon will have to figure out how to help Logan while making sure their worst enemy does not destroy their future. (320/2021)

D30466 DEADLY DELIGHTS A Bookish Baker Mystery

Laura Jensen Walker. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Every August in Lake Potawatomi, Wisconsin, there’s a baking contest, and baker-turned-mystery writer Teddie St. John has a pie in the ring. Then the head judge Les Morris is found dead with his face half-buried in a delectable coconut cream pie, and Teddie’s distinctive embossed rolling pin is nearby, covered with blood. In this sequel to Murder Most Sweet, Teddie needs to act fast, and this time, her quick wit and bohemian charm won’t save her from the law—or the real killer. (320/2021)

Castle Bookshop Mysteries D30459 TROUBLE ON THE BOOKS

Essie Lang. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Taking over her aunt’s bookstore in New York’s Thousand Islands region, Shelby Cox has no idea what to expect. At a picturesque castle nearby, a volunteer is murdered, and caretaker Matthew Kessler is suspect number one. In her first outing as a sleuth, Shelby thinks the killing may be connected to Prohibition-era smugglers who were once rampant in the region. Handsome Zack Griffin of the Coast Guard Investigative Services tries to keep her safe, but Shelby is determined to do things her own way and find the killer before he strikes again. (336/2019)

D30458 A DEADLY CHAPTER

Essie Lang. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 A bookseller in the Thousand Islands, Shelby Cox turns sleuth again in this third outing (after Death on the Page) when she finds a body lodged between the side of her houseboat and the dock, his skull shattered. Shelby recalls that the victim has dropped into Bayside Books asking about an enigmatic woman who lived on Blye Island many years before. When the man’s daughter demands answers, Shelby takes the case, but there are more suspects than there are pages in War and Peace, and Shelby can expect no peace unless she can turn the page on this grisly mystery. (320/2021)

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D30440 DIGGING UP TROUBLE A Sweet Fiction Bookshop Mystery

Kitt Crowe. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 In Confection, Oregon, Lexi rushes to her neighbor’s backyard to find her border collie mix, Cookie, sitting near a body in the garden. Cookie grips a copper pipe between her teeth. Was this the murder weapon? And was Lexi the murderer? It sure looks that way, seeing as she was spotted squabbling with the victim just the day before. All the volumes in the Sweet Fiction Bookshop prove of little help in jogging Lexi’s brain to find a solution. Fortunately, Cookie is not finished digging up clues, so she might just save Lexi from a bitter end. (336/2021)

D30460 DOWN A DARK RIVER

Karen Odden. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 London, 1878. When the body of a prominent judge’s daughter is found on a boat in the Thames, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan. An Irish former bareknuckles boxer who is now a Senior Inspector, Corravan abandons his ongoing case, a search for the missing wife of shipping magnate Mr. Beckford, handing it over to his young colleague, Mr. Stiles. When more bodies are found on boats, Corravan and Stiles discover that the river murders and the case of Mrs. Beckford may be linked through some terrible act of injustice in the past. (336/2021)

D30455 DUST TO DUST An Ivy Nichols Mystery

Audrey Keown. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 At Pittsburgh’s historic Hotel 1911, the Association for Gravestone Studies is stunned when one of their members is strangled to death onsite. The police claim that the hotel’s manager, Mr. Fig, is the only one who could have reached the victim’s room, but clerk Ivy Nichols believes he is innocent. In this follow-up to Murder at Hotel 1911, the inexplicable appearance of strange drawings, an old book, and a wig lead Ivy to a bizarre connection between the grave-obsessed guests and the murder. When Fig confesses a long-held secret, though, Ivy fears she has put herself in the sights of not only the murderer but another dangerous criminal, too. (288/2021)

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D30463 FRONT PAGE MURDER A Homefront News Mystery

Joyce St. Anthony. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Becoming editor-in-chief of her father’s newspaper during World War II, Irene Ingram has something to prove to the men in the newsroom. But Irene has bigger worries when crime reporter Moe Bauer turns up dead at the foot of his cellar stairs. It turns out that Moe was uncovering clues about threats to a Jewish hardware store owner, and Irene senses a direct link. She and her best friend, scrappy secretary Peggy Reardon, search for clues, but if they aren’t careful they may face an all-too-literal deadline. (304/2022)

Victoria Gilbert D30445 A FATAL BOOKING A Booklover’s B & B Mystery

Victoria Gilbert. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Charlotte is delighted to host a book club retreat, but when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she’s fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole. The victim was the unscrupulous owner of a jewelry store that deals in “hot” merchandise, so as Charlotte and Ellen delve deeper into each guest’s story, they realize all of them had a motive and the means. Following Reserved for Murder, this third outing requires the duo to seek local help in their quest for a happy ending. (304/2022)

D30446 RENEWED FOR MURDER A Blue Ridge Library Mystery

Victoria Gilbert. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 August in Taylorsford, Virginia finds library director Amy Webber and her new husband, dancer Richard Muir, settling into married life. But in this sixth outing (after A Deadly Case) an unknown woman’s body turns up in Zelda Shoemaker’s backyard gazebo. The police put Zelda at the top of the suspect list, thanks to a blackmail letter found in the dead woman’s pocket. Complicating matters further, Amy unearths records of a long-ago tragedy that casts doubt on Zelda’s innocence. She enlists the townsfolk to help exonerate Zelda, and meanwhile, the killer is still out there. (352/2021)

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Greer Hogan Mysteries D30452 THE UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS

M.E. Hilliard. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 After the murder of her husband, librarian Greer Hogan left New York behind for a new start in the Village of Raven Hill. But when she discovers her best friend sprawled dead on the floor of the library, Greer is racked with guilt at discovering that she may have helped to convict an innocent man of killing her husband. Fortunately, she possesses a quick wit and a librarian’s natural resourcefulness, but even if Greer manages to catch the Raven Hill killer, will living with her conscience prove a fate worse than death? (336/2021)

D30461 GARDEN OF SINS A Victorian Mystery

Laura Joh Rowland. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 After surviving a train crash, Victorian crime scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett and her husband Detective Sergeant Barrett find a woman who’s been strangled to death. In this 6th outing (after Portrait of Peril), they follow the clues to London’s Cremorne Gardens, a seedy riverside pleasure park. Launching a clandestine investigation, Sarah and her friends have too many suspects: a dwarf, a female acrobat, and a member of the Royal Family. Meanwhile, Sarah’s father goes on trial for a murder that occurred 20 years ago, and her life will be changed by the outcome. (304/2022)

D30453 SHADOW IN THE GLASS

M.E. Hilliard. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Librarian Greer Hogan is on hand to celebrate her old friend Sarah Whitaker’s nuptials at the Whitaker summer home on beautiful Mirror Lake, just outside Lake Placid. But Greer has an ulterior motive—to gather information that could reopen the investigation into her husband’s murder. Then an unreliable employee of the Whitaker family turns up dead in the lake and Greer begins an investigation—her second, after The Unkindness of Ravens—and finds that the suspect list is as long as the guest list, while the killer is still close at hand. (336/2022)

D30438 HER DYING DAY

Mindy Carlson. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Aspiring filmmaker June Masterson has high hopes for her first documentary, the true story of the disappearance of famed mystery author Greer Larkin. The deeper she digs into the project, the darker the story gets; the suspects include Greer’s mother, her best friend, and her fiancé—each of whom has his or her own theories. As June probes Larkin’s writings for answers, a murder occurs that clouds the whole mystery, and in Mindy Carlson’s witty debut, June finds herself in the sights of a killer who’ll stop at nothing to keep a secret. (320/2022)

D30447 THE HIDDEN

Melanie Golding. Crooked Lane. D30449 26.99 5.98 HALF DEAD One December night, Brandon Graham. in a seaside town, a little Crooked Lane. girl is found abandoned. 27.99 5.98 When her mother finally The car accident took his arrives, authorities wife and nearly killed him conclude that it’s a case too, but Calvert Green’s of a toddler running problems are just beginoff. Even as DS Joanna ning—he’s now suffering Harper investigates an from a rare physiological assault on a man named condition that makes Gregor, she sees foothim believe he’s dead, age of the mother-daughter pair from town, and and he has lost much of realizes that the woman is her estranged daughter, his memory. Believing Ruby. Somehow Ruby is connected to Gregor’s famthat the crash wasn’t an accident, Green searches for ily—including his wife, who believes she is descended answers in a city being terrorized by a murder spree, from the mythical Selkies. It’s already a strange case, and homicide detective Whistler Diaz has a prime sus- but Harper realizes she may have to choose between pect. But a crusading journalist is determined to prove Ruby and her career. (304/2021) Green isn’t who he seems, and on a harrowing journey into the city’s underbelly, Green begins to uncover the shocking truth of who he once was. (336/2021)

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Nicola Upson. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 It is 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Scottish mystery novelist Josephine Tey and Detective Inspector Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael’s Mount—and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary—interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins. Following Sorry for the Dead, the ninth novel in the series draws on conventions of a Christmas mystery from the Golden Age, while giving them a contemporary twist. (320/2020)

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D30464 DEAR LITTLE CORPSES

Nicola Upson. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 September 1st, 1939. As a mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl vanishes without a trace, it is quite clear that a crime has occurred. As war breaks out in Europe, novelist Josephine Tey sees a cloud of suspicion falls across the small Suffolk village she has come to love, and in this tenth outing—after The Secrets of Winter—the conflict becomes personal as events take a dark and sinister turn. (336/2022)

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Eva Gates. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 It’s summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James’s college class is having their 40th-anniversary reunion. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the pier, where they find the Lighthouse Library’s former director, Helena Sanchez, floating lifeless in the water. Sanchez had many enemies, but as librarian Lucy Richardson begins questioning suspects, her seventh investigation (after Read and Buried) puts her in deep water and right in the killer’s crosshairs. (372/2020)

D30442 DEADLY EVER AFTER

[This] is a well written, cleverly plotted, leisurely paced tale that readers of cozy mysteries will find to their liking.” —Seattle Book Review on A Death Long Overdue

Eva Gates. Crooked Lane (pap) 16.99 4.98 At the engagement party for Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil, Lucy’s exboyfriend Richard Eric Lewiston III and his overbearing mother Evangeline show up unexpectedly. In this eighth outing (after A Death Long Overdue), Evangeline makes no secret of why she’s here: to get Lucy and Ricky back together. Worse yet, Lucy has a murder to solve, and open war breaks out in the Lighthouse Library when she agrees to temporarily take care of a dog named Fluffy, and Charles the library cat has other ideas. (304/2022)

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What if Agatha Christie’s housekeeper was the best detective of all? In this delightful book, she is! You will love watching Phyllida spot the clues the authorities miss when a dead body shows up in Agatha’s library. An outstanding start to what promises to be a winning new series.” —Victoria Thompson D30661 MURDER AT MALLOWAN HALL

Colleen Cambridge. Kensington. 26.00 5.98 Life is never dull for Agatha Christie’s housekeeper Phyllida Bright, but she is unprepared for the sight of a very real, very dead body on the library floor at Mallowan Hall. In this debut mystery, Phyllida not only has a houseful of demanding guests on her hands, but hordes of reporters camping outside. When another dead body is discovered—this time, one of her housemaids—Phyllida solicits help from the village’s handsome physician, Dr. Bhatt, and the other household staff to find a killer who is still be close at hand and poised to strike again. (272/2021)

D30457 LIVE, LOCAL, AND DEAD A Vermont Radio Mystery

Nikki Knight. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 In a fit of temper, Vermont radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman’s head off with a musket. But the corpse that tumbles out is all too human: Edwin Anger—the ranting radio talk show host who Jaye recently fired. Jaye’s old crush, the governor, arrived on the scene before the musket smoke cleared. Now Jaye must find the real killer, while running the radio station, DJing her all-request love song show, and shuttling her daughter to and from school. Fortunately, Jaye has help from the moose in the transmitter shack, and Neptune, the giant gray cat that lives at the station. (304/2022)

D30439 MANY A TWIST A County Cork Mystery

Sheila Connolly. Crooked Lane (pap) 15.99 4.98 While working at her pub in Skibbereen, Ireland, Maura Donovan is stunned by a visit from her mother, estranged these 20 years. It seems the prodigal woman has a job at the Crann Mor Hotel—but then her new boss is found dead in the gardens. Following Cruel Winter, Maura’s sixth case is personal, and she will leave no stone unturned to clear her mother’s name and rebuild their relationship. The denizens of Skibbereen harbor dark secrets, however, and one of them will kill again if needs must to keep from being found out. (336/2018)

D30668 MURDER AT KEYHAVEN CASTLE A Stella and Lyndy Mystery

Clara Mckenna. Kensington. 26.00 4.98 With her wedding to Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst just days away, American ex-pat Stella Kendrick is the talk of Edwardian society. Then the arrival of an anonymous gift and the return of her overbearing father cast a dark shadow over the festivities, and a pair of murders implicate one of Lyndy’s well-regarded family members. Facing postponed nuptials, Stella and Lyndy—making their third foray into detective work, after Murder at Blackwater Bend—rush to connect the crimes and identify the guilty party hiding among elite wedding guests. (288/2021)

D30669 MURDER AT WEDGEFIELD MANOR A Jane Wunderly Mystery

Erica Ruth Neubauer. Kensington (pap) 15.95 4.98 England, 1926: Wedgefield Manor, deep in the tranquil Essex countryside, provides a welcome rest stop for Jane Wunderly and her Aunt Millie before their return to America. The calm is shattered when one of the estate’s mechanics, Simon Marshall, is killed in a motorcar collision that wasn’t an accident. The house is full of suspects and also full of targets. In this follow-up to the Agatha Award winner Murder at the Mena House, the enigmatic Mr. Redvers returns to once more offer his assistance, but are they overlooking a killer hiding in plain sight? (304/2022)

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D30671 MURDER IN GREENWICH VILLAGE

Liz Freeland. Kensington (pap) 15.95 5.98 A year before World War I breaks out, Manhattan is crowded with newcomers, including sharp-witted young Louise Faulk, who has fled Altoona, Pennsylvania, to start a new life. But in this series debut, the glitter fades when Louise’s Greenwich Village apartment becomes the scene of a murder, and a former suitor is the prime suspect. Driven to investigate the crime, Louise finds herself stepping into the seediest corners of the burgeoning metropolis—where she soon discovers that failed dreams can turn dark and deadly. (288/2018)

D23221 A NARROW DOOR

Joanne Harris. Pegasus. 26.95 6.98 For the first time in the history of St Oswald’s school, a headmistress is in power, and the gates are opening to girls. Barely 40, Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position, and she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As her new regime takes on the old guard embodied by elderly Latin master Roy Straitley, the remains of a body are discovered on the site of the 500 year old school. But Rebecca is here to make her mark, and in this novel by the author of Chocolat, she’ll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. (448/2022)

D30451 ONE FOR THE HOOKS A Crochet Mystery

Betty Hechtman. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 The Tarzana Hookers crochet club stays busy: Molly Pink knits together an idea for a new project, while Miami Wilson busily converts a house into a rental property. But Miami is stunned when her helper Sloan Renner ends up dead under a pile of seafood. A drone had flown overhead, discarding mollusk shells all over the backyard, and when Molly learns about Sloan’s seafood allergy, she suspects that this was no accident. With help from her ex, homicide detective Barry Greenberg, Molly baits a hook to catch the culprit. (320/2021)

D30444 PEACHY SCREAM A Georgia B&B Mystery

Anna Gerard. Crooked Lane. 26.99 4.98 Georgia’s annual Shakespeare festival brings a troupe of actors to Nina Fleet’s B&B, but she is unhappy to discover that the company’s director is her nemesis, Harry Westcott—who still claims to be the rightful heir to Nina’s elegant Queen Anne home. Something is indeed rotten in the town of Cymbeline, and when the lead actor is found murdered in the garden, Nina reluctantly seeks Harry’s help. In this sequel to Peach Clobbered, will they succeed before someone else shuffles off this mortal coil? (320/2020)

D30441 PERIL AT PENNINGTON MANOR An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery

Tracy Gardner. Crooked Lane. 26.99 5.98 Thanks to her aunt’s friendship with the Duke of Valle Charme, Avery Ayers and her associates at Antiques and Artifacts Appraised head off to their most glamorous assignment yet—cataloguing the contents of a mansion on the Hudson River. But mayhem ensues when a precious timepiece disappears, and the housekeeper Suzanne plummets to her death. This sequel to Ruby Red Herring will test Avery’s skills to the limit, especially when she discovers that Suzanne’s predecessor also met with an untimely end. (304/2022)

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Fans and scholars of Hurston’s work and the uninitiated alike will find many delights in these complex, thoughtful and wickedly funny portraits of black lives and communities…. A significant testament to the enduring resonance of black women’s writing.” —Washington Post D30728 HITTING A STRAIGHT LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK

Zora Neale Hurston. Genevieve West, ed. Tayari Jones, foreword. HQ. Import 9.98 In the 1920s, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God was still a student at Barnard College. During this period, Zora Neale Hurston began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. These 21 stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of her world. (304/2020)

D30729 THE IDES OF MARCH

Thornton Wilder. Harper Perennial (pap) 16.99 6.98 He was the ruler of Rome and in time, a god, but Julius Caesar was also a human being. First published in 1948, this brilliant epistolary novel by the author of Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey shows us Caesar as he appeared to his family, his legions, and his empire in the months just before his death in March of 44 BC. In Thornton Wilder’s inventive narrative, all Rome comes crowding through his pages: Romans of the slums, of the villas, of the palaces, brawling youths and noble ladies and prostitutes, and the spies and assassins stalking Caesar. (320/2020)

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)

D30553 PRESENCE Collected Stories

Arthur Miller. Penguin (pap) 25.00 7.98 Though best known for creating such dramas as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, Arthur Miller was also a master of the short story. Initially published in venues like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Esquire, his fiction constitutes a fascinating and indispensable portion of his life’s work. Here, as in his best plays, Miller pulls apart the threads of American life with tender humanism and unmatched psychological realism. These 14 stories build on the landscape of Miller’s drama, of Broadway dives and Brooklyn shipyards where businessmen, writers, bums, and bluecollar workers struggle for self-worth. (384/2016)

D30736 SARATOGA TRUNK

Edna Ferber. Harper (pap) 15.99 5.98 Ambitious Creole beauty Clio Dulaine meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business and an eye for the ladies. In 19th-century Louisiana, they do battle with Southern gentry and Eastern society, but in their obsession to acquire all they’ve ever wanted, they fail to realize they already have all they’ll ever need—each other. First published in 1941, this novel by the author of Giant, Cimarron, and So Big was the basis of the Gary Cooper/Ingrid Bergman film by the same name, as well as the 1959 Harold Arlen musical Saratoga. (320/2019)

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Luigi Pirandello. Yale. 30.00 5.98 Even as he reinvented drama with plays like Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) crafted innovative short stories, many set in his native Sicily or in Rome. Revealing his love of Italian folktales, the 30 stories here include “The Jar,” in which a broken earthenware pot provokes a quarrel between a landholder and the inventor of a mysterious glue. “The Dearly Departed” tells the story of a widow and her new husband on their honeymoon, haunted at every turn by the sly face of the deceased. Just as they do in his major works, Pirandello’s characters expose the human condition in all its fatalism, injustice, and beauty. (352/2020)

D30546 TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

Henry Miller. Grove (pap) 16.00 5.98 First published in France in 1939, but banned in America until the 1960s, this semiautobiographical novel is a prequel of sorts to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. It depicts a younger version of himself, working for Western Union in 1920s New York, and yet to meet the woman who will make a writer of him. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual exploits, the book incorporates material from some of his earlier, unpublished writing, and is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. “There is an eager vitality and exuberance to the writing…. We watchfully hear the language skip, whoop and wheel across Miller’s pages.”—William H. Gass (348 /1994)

Paul Theroux. Mariner. 28.00 5.98 Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his “stoke.” The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but in this novel by the author of The Mosquito Coast, his sponsors are looking elsewhere. One night, Joe accidentally kills a stranger near Waimea, a tragedy that sends his life out of control. As the repercussions of the accident spiral ever wider, Joe’s devoted girlfriend Olive throws herself into uncovering the dead man’s identity and helping Joe find vitality and refuge in the waves again. (416/2021)

D30639 WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH Large Print

Sigrid Nunez. Random House (pap) 28.00 5.98 A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with cancer. In each of these people, there is a common need to talk about themselves and to have an audience. With wisdom and humor, the National Book Award–winning author of The Friend shows what happens the narrator is confronted by an extraordinary request, and in this thought-provoking novel—presented here in large print format—she is drawn into a transformative experience of her own. (256/2020)

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D22633 AU REVOIR, TRISTESSE Lessons in Happiness from French Literature

Viv Groskop. Abrams. 25.00 6.98 Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French, but—despite studying the language obsessively and spending every vacation in France—she has profited the most by absorbing the classics of French literature, which can infuse our lives with joie de vivre and teach us how to say goodbye to sadness. Encompassing the frothy hedonism of Colette, the wit of Cyrano de Bergerac, and the heady passions of Les Liaisons dangereuses, Groskop’s love letter to great French writers salutes Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, Albert Camus, and Françoise Sagan. (248/2020)

D22461 BURNING MAN The Trials of D.H. Lawrence

Frances Wilson. FSG. 35.00 7.98 “Never trust the teller,” wrote D. H. Lawrence, “trust the tale.” A pioneer of autofiction, no writer before Lawrence had made so permeable the border between life and literature. Eschewing the confines of traditional biography, Frances Wilson takes a new look at Lawrence’s most vital decade, from 1915, when The Rainbow was suppressed following an obscenity trial, to 1925, when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Focusing on Lawrence’s crises (in Cornwall, Italy, and New Mexico) and three central adversaries (his wife Frieda, writer Maurice Magnus, and his patron Mabel Dodge Luhan), Wilson uncovers a lesser-known Lawrence. (488/2021)

D30723 DOSTOEVSKY IN LOVE An Intimate Life

Alex Christofi. Bloomsbury. 35.00 7.98 Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, Fyodor Dostoevsky survived mock execution and Siberian exile, writing a towering stack of classic novels even as he battled epilepsy and a gambling addiction. Scouring Dostoevsky’s literary works for clues, Alex Christofi profiles the three women who supported him and shared his turbulent life: the consumptive widow Maria; impetuous Polina, who had visions of assassinating the Tsar; and faithful stenographer Anna, who did so much to secure his literary legacy. (256/2021)

D30652 IF The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years

Christopher Benfey. Penguin (pap) 18.00 7.98 At the turn of the 20th century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. Kipling’s intense engagement with the United States, however, is a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Tracing the writer’s 1889–99 sojourn in America, Christopher Benfey focuses on Kipling’s four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, a happy and creative period during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. In this New York Times Notable Book of 2019, Benfey also discusses the sordid family dispute that forced Kipling to return to Britain. (256/2020)

D23440 THE ODYSSEY

Homer. Robert Fitzgerald, trans. FSG (pap) 14.00 6.98 D30721 Essentially a freestanding CHESTER B. HIMES sequel to The Iliad, Homer’s A Biography Odyssey is much more, a swashLawrence P. Jackson. buckling epic that has deeply W.W. Norton. 35.00 6.98 influenced writers and artists One of the 20th cenfor 2700 years. Presented in tury’s most prolific black Robert Fitzgerald’s timeless 1965 translation, here is writers, Chester Himes the story of how the Greek Odysseus attempts to (1909–84) left a distincreturn home after the war, but needs all of his legtive mark on American literature with his Harlem endary cunning and valor to contend with a cyclops, the Sirens, the monstrous Scylla, the whirlpool detective series, yet today Charybdis, and the sorceress Circe, plus a houseful of he is nearly forgotten. In suitors eager to marry his wife. (592/1998) this winner of the Edgar Award for Best Critical/ Biographical Work, Lawrence Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes’s full archives to trace this maverick’s middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II–era artist, and escape to Europe in search of success. (624/2017)

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D30733 PACKING MY LIBRARY An Elegy and Ten Digressions

Alberto Manguel. Yale. 23.00 4.98 In June 2015, Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his 35,000‑volume personal library—choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out—Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the relationships between books and readers. In this poignant reevaluation of his life as a reader, Manguel extols the virtues of many literary works, as he affirms the vital role of public libraries, and considers books’ importance to a democratic, civilized, and engaged society. (160/2018)

D22710 THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE An Anthology of Magical Tales

Jack Zipes, ed. Princeton. 35.00 9.98 Long before Mickey Mouse starred in Fantasia’s most memorable segment, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was the name for a type of story in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, a wizard who holds the keys to magical powers. Collecting 56 such tales from around the world, this anthology includes Ovid, Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, the Brothers Grimm, Edith Nesbit, Hermann Hesse, and Robert Southey. In an extensive introduction, Jack Zipes discusses the significance and meaning of the apprentice stories, while Natalie Frank bring the narratives to life with 20 illustrations. (480/2017)

D30647 SQUARE HAUNTING Five Writers in London Between the Wars

Francesca Wade. Tim Duggan. 28.99 5.98 In the early 20th century, Mecklenburgh Square—an architectural gem in the heart of London—was a radical address. Between the world wars, the lives of five remarkable women intertwined at this one address: modernist poet H.D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and author-publisher Virginia Woolf. As Francesca Wade details in this fascinating group portrait, in an era when women’s freedoms were fast expanding, they each found a space where they could live, love, and work independently. (432/2020)

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D30742 VIRGINIA WOOLF AT HOME

Hilary Macaskill. Pimpernel. 40.00 14.98 If any modernist was ever shaped by domesticity, it was Virginia Woolf, whose fiction was firmly anchored in the reality of the houses she lived in and visited. Exploring this concept, this book discusses seven of Woolf ’s residences, including 22 Hyde Park Gate, her birthplace; Hogarth House, where the newly married Woolfs set up their printing press; Talland House in Cornwall, her creative oasis; and Monk’s House, her final residence. Adding to our understanding of Woolf, the more than 100 images include rare photos of her family and the Bloomsbury Group. (208/2019)

D22611 WE BEGIN IN GLADNESS How Poets Progress: Essays

Craig Morgan Teicher. Graywolf (pap) 16.00 4.98 “The staggering thing about a life’s work is it takes a lifetime to complete,” notes Craig Morgan Teicher, and in these luminous essays, he considers how poets start out and learn to hear themselves, all so that they can offer us that rare, glittering thing: lasting work. Teicher traces the poetic development of the works of Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, Louise Glück, W.S. Merwin, and Francine J. Harris, among others, to illuminate the paths they forged— by dramatic breakthroughs or by slow increments, and always by perseverance. (176/2018)

D22437 WHAT ABOUT THE BABY? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction

Alice McDermott. FSG. 27.00 5.98 A painstaking novelist who takes her time with each book, Alice McDermott won the National Book Award for Charming Billy and she has a slew of Pulitzer Prize nominations to her credit. Expressing the joys and travails of what she calls “this mad pursuit,” McDermott shares her pithiest wisdom about her chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as a writer and a teacher of writing. Paying tribute to her own inspirations, she also serves throughout as the artful conductor of a literary chorus, quoting generously from the work of Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Morrison, and Woolf, beautifully joining her voice with theirs. (242/2021)

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D30776 BARE MINIMUM DINNERS Recipes and Strategies for Doing Less in the Kitchen

Jenna Helwig. Harvest (pap) 18.99 5.98 Getting a home cooked meal on the table every day is an admirable goal, but it shouldn’t get in the way of your life. Here Jenna Helwig shares delicious, entry level recipes so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying your meal. Keeping it simple, here are recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or less (Sweet and Tangy Beef and Broccoli; Ginger Scallion Turkey Burgers), dishes requiring seven ingredients or less (Bacon and Corn Frittata; Crispy Dijon Pork), and meals that are easy to clean up (Spiced Chicken and Rice). Rounding out the collection are an assortment of slow-cooker recipes and bare minimum side dishes. (240/2021)

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D30565 BBQ REVOLUTION Innovative Barbecue Recipes from an All-Star Pitmaster

Mitch Benjamin. Harvard Common. 30.00 9.98 More than a cooking technique, barbecue is a world of flavor and a distinct cooking culture. In this magnificently photographed collection, veteran pitmaster Mitch Benjamin explains how to make Charred Salmon BLT, Tequila Two-Step Texas Chili, Smoked Brisket Philly Cheesesteak, Jalapeño Cheesy-Corn Bake, Jerry’s Brown Sugar Smoked Pork Sausage, Peach Bread Pudding with Caramel Sauce, and dozens more options. Benjamin also offers plenty of tips for barbequing, profiles of fellow grill gourmands, and reminiscences and recipes from his experiences in competitive barbeques. (208/2021)

D22861 THE CITY OF VINES A History of Wine in Los Angeles

Thomas Pinney. Heyday. 35.00 7.98 The City of Angels has also been a hub for wine production, and here Thomas Pinney brings incisive analysis and a touch of dry humor to this chronicle of winemaking in Los Angeles from the late 18th century 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 Prohibition. California wine once meant Los Angeles wine, and Pinney reveals the lasting ways in which the industry shaped the metropolis. (352/2017)

D30722 COCONUT How the Shy Fruit Shaped our World

Robin Laurance. History Press. 31.95 6.98 Humans have at times regarded the coconut as a sign of wealth and success, turned them into art, and even employed them in the charcoal filters of gas masks. It was coconuts that triggered the mutiny on the Bounty, and coconuts that saved the life of the man who became the 35th President of the United States. At a time when coconut products are seemingly everywhere, Robin Laurance looks beyond the oils and health drinks to uncover the often surprising roles played by the coconut palm and its nut in times past and present. (224/2019)

D30680 FAST CAKES Easy Bakes in Minutes

Mary Berry. Quercus. 35.00 9.98 If you consider baking to be timeconsuming, think again, because here Mary Berry of The Great British Baking Show has incorporated her all-in-one method of preparation into as many recipes as possible, with nearly 100 of the bakes requiring only ten minutes to make. There are cakes, scones, buns, cookies, bars, and breads for any occasion, including Honey & Almond Cake, Chocolate Eclairs, Brandy Snaps, Coffee Fudge Traybake, and even recipes perfect to make with kids, like Happy Face Cookies, Traffic Lights, and Jammy Buns. (320/2019)

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D30683 WHISKY: IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE A Quick & Easy Graphic Guide to Understanding, Tasting & Drinking Whisky

Mikaël Guidot. Hamlyn. 24.99 7.98 Whether you’re a novice looking to build your whisky bar, or a seasoned whisky drinker who’d like to know more about what’s in your glass, this guide is bursting with information, accompanied throughout by colorful infographics. Explaining how whisky is made, Mikaël Guidot offers tips on how to buy, taste, mix, and best enjoy this hearty beverage. Here too is a worldwide tour of whisky hot spots—with Scotland front and center, of course—and a glossary of terms, from “tapping the bung” to “the angels’ share.” (192/2020)

D30726 THE FOOD OF OAXACA Recipes and Stories from Mexico’s Culinary Capital: A Cookbook

Alejandro Ruiz. Knopf. 35.00 12.98 If any place deserves to be called Mexico’s culinary capital, it’s Oaxaca, and native Alejandro Ruiz shares the joy through 50 recipes both traditional and original. Here are tips for making your own tortillas and for preparing tamales, salsas, and moles, as well as Ruiz’s own creations: Duck Tacos with Coloradito; Shrimp, Nopal, Fava Bean, and Pea Soup; and Oaxacan Chocolate Mousse. Also included are color photographs that give a vivid sense of the region and its cuisine, plus essays on dishes, ingredients, kitchen tools, and traditions. (256/2021)

D30564 GROW YOUR OWN SPICES Harvest Homegrown Ginger, Turmeric, Saffron, Wasabi, Vanilla, Cardamom, and Other Incredible Spices—No Matter Where You Live!

D30566 NEW WORLD SOURDOUGH Artisan Techniques for Creative Homemade Fermented Breads

Bryan Ford. Quarry. 27.99 7.98 It is easier than you may think to make a sourdough starter, Bryan Ford points out. With less emphasis on perfecting crumb structure or obsessive temperature monitoring, Ford focuses on the tips and techniques he’s developed in his own practice, to ensure a good return on your time and effort. How-to photos are paired with irresistible closeups of the treats, so that you will be inspired to make Challah, Ciabatta, English Muffins, Masa Focaccia, Cuban Muffins, Whole-Grain Brioche Buns, and Pecan Praline Monkey Bread. (160/2020)

D30759 SNACKS Easy Ways to Satisfy Your Cravings

Betty Crocker. Harvest (pap) 24.99 6.98 When life gets too busy to sit down Tasha Greer. and have a meal, Greta Moore, illus. it’s time for a snack Cool Springs. 22.99 5.98 that’s quick, easy, and For millennia, spices have been used to flavor food interesting. This compendium of 125 grazing goodand heal the human body. Although we tend to buy ies is organized by time spent in the kitchen—from them, Tasha Greer points out that many spices can be 30 minutes to a mere 10. For a quick breakfast, a easily grown even by people who don’t have a green Cold Brew Yogurt Pop or Iced Oat Milk Chai Latte thumb. For dozens of herbs both familiar and exotic, takes the same amount of time as hitting the snooze Greer provides color photos and information on their button. Got a friend coming over at the last minute? care, harvesting, history, and medicinal uses. She also Throw together Oven-Baked Curry Chicken Taquitos shares lore and side notes: Sanskrit has 53 different or Mediterranean Watermelon Fries with Creamy names for turmeric, cinnamon is actually an invasive Feta Dip. And before you finish a TV episode, you weed, and Napoleon recommended chicory root to can have Spinach Feta Naan Pizzas and Italian Carrot help coffee drinkers kick the habit. (128/2021) Fries ready on the table. (288/2021)

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D30717 AN AUDIENCE WITH QUEEN VICTORIA The Royal Opinion on 30 Famous Victorians

Ian Lloyd. History Press (pap) Import 5.98 Curious and enthusiastic, Queen Victoria met everyone from Charlotte Brontë to Buffalo Bill during her 63-year reign, and her impressions of them were wide ranging. This sampling offers her accounts of meetings and correspondence with Charles Dickens, P.T. Barnum, Felix Mendelssohn, Sarah Bernhardt, Pablo Casals, Alexander Graham Bell, and explorer Henry Stanley, whom she deemed “a determined ugly little man.” Here too are Victoria’s thoughts on some people she never crossed paths with, including Abraham Lincoln and Jack the Ripper. (288/2019)

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)

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)

D30720 CASTAWAYS ADRIFT & ABANDONED Thrilling Tales of the Sea (Vol. 3)

Graham Faiella. History Press (pap) 22.95 7.98 Prior to the 20th century, traveling by sea was perilous at best, and those who experienced shipwrecks generally had to endure unimaginable difficulties. Such events do make for fascinating reading, however, and so Graham Faiella has gathered these 25 stories of castaways, many written as reminiscences by survivors. Primarily from the 19th century, here are terrible tales of being adrift on the ocean, clinging to life on coral reefs, or fighting for survival on inhospitable and desolate islands. (256/2021)

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

David Howard. Crown. 28.00 6.98 In 1977, J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency’s first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their target? Charismatic, globetrotting con man Phil Kitzer, whom some called the world’s greatest swindler. They traveled with him to Cleveland, Miami, Hawaii, Frankfurt, and the Bahamas, playing the role of protégés and coconspirators. But as the young agents became further entangled in Phil’s outrageous schemes, reveals David Howard, they also grew to respect and care for him, even as their endgame—the swindler’s arrest—was drawing near. (384/2017)

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“A lyrical and astute assessment of the political maneuvers, battlefield strategies, and resilience of medieval queens … a deeply fascinating portrait of the early Middle Ages that vigorously reclaims two powerhouse women from obscurity.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) D30761 THE DARK QUEENS The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World Shelley Puhak. Bloomsbury. 30.00 7.98 In 6th century Merovingian France, Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliancebuilding. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave, but became a ruthlessly effective queen consort and military leader. At a time when women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport, these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. Creating a fresh portrait of these vilified figures, Shelley Puhak overturns ancient myths about women in power. (384/2022)

D30779 A DEMON-HAUNTED LAND Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

D23160 FALLEN IDOLS Twelve Statues That Made History

D30538 DIGGING UP ARMAGEDDON The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

D30792 GOD’S BATTALIONS The Case for the Crusades

Monica Black. Metropolitan (pap) 19.99 7.98 In the aftermath of World War II, supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany: A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, argues Monica Black, was a widespread preoccupation with evil—and as she proves here, it was a direct result of trying to bury a horrific legacy of war and genocide. (352/2022)

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. Yet as these effigies fell, the backlash was swift and intense. Explaining how they are not commemorations but political statements, Alex von Tunzelmann distinguishes between statuary—representations of supposedly virtuous individuals, usually “great men”—and other forms of public art. Along the way, she finds the humor and the human interest stories in how we have treated statues of George Washington, Josef Stalin, and Saddam Hussein. (305/2021)

Rodney Stark. Harper (pap) 14.99 6.98 Eric H. Cline. For centuries, the prevailing Princeton. 35.00 14.98 opinion has been that the In 1925, James Henry Breasted Crusades were the first round of the University of Chicago of European colonialism, consent a team of archaeologists ducted for land, loot, and conto the Holy Land to excavate verts by Christians who victhe ancient site of Megiddo— timized the cultivated Muslims. known as Armageddon in the New Testament— Reviewing the seven major which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon. crusades from 1095 to 1291, religion sociologist Their excavations made headlines, yet little has been Rodney Stark argues instead that the Crusades were written about what happened behind the scenes. the first military response to unwarranted Muslim Sifting through three decades of correspondence by aggression, an East-West conflict in which religious the team, Eric Cline’s illustrated history offers perdifferences played no more than a secondary role. spective on the debates over what was uncovered at “There is much to be learned here.... Stark pulls it all Megiddo, and the discoveries that transformed our together and challenges us to reconsider our view.” understanding of the ancient world. (424 /2020) —Publishers Weekly (288/2010)

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D30535 HOW TO BE A BAD EMPEROR An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders

D30731 KOREA: WHERE THE AMERICAN CENTURY BEGAN The Korean War and the Roots of the Current Crisis

Suetonius. Josiah Osgood, ed. Princeton. 16.95 7.98 Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perMichael Pembroke. haps the greatest negative leadOneworld. 27.95 6.98 ership book of all time. Here In 1950, the invasion of Josiah Osgood provides crisp new translations of North Korea failed, and Suetonius’s briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of for the next three years the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, the United States bombed and Nero. Entertaining and shocking, the stories the North’s cities and vilof these ancient anti-role models show how power lages relentlessly; Pyongyang has been determined to inflames leaders’ worst tendencies, causing almost develop a credible nuclear deterrent ever since. The incalculable damage. (312/2020) Korean War was the first of America’s unsuccessful military interventions after World War II, Michael Pembroke reminds us here, and its first modern conflict with China. Commenting on the war and its D30763 legacy for all the participants, this “timely, readable THE HUMAN STORY and deeply researched” history (Washington Post) is a Our History, from the scathing look at seven decades of chaos in Korea. Stone Age to Today (368/2018) James C. Davis. Harper Perennial (pap) D30794 18.99 6.98 LAND The history of mankind is How the Hunger for spellbinding and vast, and Ownership Shaped James Davis has managed to the Modern World capture its essence in this clear Simon Winchester. and fast-paced overview. He Harper. 29.99 7.98 tells how peoples of the world Whether meadow or mounsettled down and founded cities, conquered neightainside, desert or peat bog, bors, established religions, and achieved remarkable suburb or city, land is centechnological breakthroughs. Adding depth to some tral to our existence. Here familiar events, Davis takes us to the final moments the author of The Professor of Alexander the Great, the Soviet Union’s ecstatic and the Madman examines launch of Sputnik, and the world-changing creation what we human beings have of McDonald’s. (480/2005) done with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. Surveying history and D30764 the world, Simon Winchester examines in THE HUNT FOR HISTORY traveling depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how Nathan Raab, with Luke Barr. why we fight over it, and finally, how we someScribner (pap) 19.00 5.98 and times manage to share it. Ultimately, Winchester conA box found in a Maine fronts the essential question: who actually owns the attic, full of letters written world’s land—and why does it matter? (464/2021) by Alexander Hamilton; George Washington’s notes for his address to Congress; D30756 papers filled out and signed MR. HUMBLE & by Amelia Earhart when she DR. BUTCHER became the first woman to A Monkey’s Head, the fly the Atlantic—these are a Pope’s Neuroscientist, few of the items that Nathan Raab has located and and the Quest to authenticated for The Raab Collection. A leading Transplant the Soul dealer of historical artifacts, Raab relates fascinating Brandy Schillace. tales as he investigates leads from hopeful inheritors, Simon & Schuster (pap) scours auctions for overlooked treasures, and tracks 18.99 5.98 down lost or fragmented bits of history, be it a piece During the Cold War, surgeons of the first electric cable laid by Edison or missing on both sides of the Iron audio tapes from Air Force One, recorded as the Curtain competed to become the first to transplant plane brought JFK’s body back to Washington. organs like the kidney and heart. American neuro“As skilled in satisfying readers as clients, Raab knows surgeon Robert White had an even more ambitious how to tell a story…. Unfailingly entertaining.” idea: Why not transplant the brain? A founder of the —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) (272/2020) Vatican’s Commission on Bioethics, White developed neurosurgical techniques still used in hospitals today. But as Brandy Schillace reveals in this “delightfully History waits for no one. macabre” tale (NYTimes), White was also waging a against the limits of science, performing bizarre Order Now! 800-395-2665 battle experiments on monkeys as part of a quest for the secrets of immortality. (328/2022)

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D30732 OTTOMAN DRESS AND DESIGN IN THE WEST A Visual History of Cultural Exchange

D30559 VENICE AND ITS JEWS 500 Years Since the Founding of the Ghetto

D30734 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF THE SIXTIES The Magic, Myth, and Music of the Decade That Changed the World

D30771 THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

Charlotte Jirousek. Indiana (pap) 32.00 14.98 From the dawn of Islam through the end of the 20th century, the relationship between the West and the Near East has quietly been reflected in the visual culture of clothing. Offering context for this poorly understood form of expression, Charlotte Jirousek argues that dress reflects not simply the self but also a community’s relation to a wider world through trade, colonization, religion, and technology. The 180 illustrations include rare vintage photos, images of extravagant clothing, and art by Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach, Jean Antoine Watteau, and John Singleton Copley. (272/2019)

Tobias Churton. Inner Traditions (pap) 40.00 7.98 No decade in modern history has generated more controversy and divisiveness than the tumultuous 1960s. Embarking on a determined search for the spiritual meaning behind the massive social upheavals of the era, Tobias Churton examines the Beatles and Jack Nicholson, Jean-Luc Godard and Mark Rothko, tracing influences from medieval troubadours, Gnosticism, Hindu philosophy, Renaissance hermetic magic, and the occult doctrines of Aleister Crowley. Informal and perceptive yet extremely broad in scope, this history captures the chaos and creativity of a decade that continues to influence us. (672/2018)

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)

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Donatella Calabi. Lenore Rosenberg, trans. Officina Libraria (pap) 16.95 5.98 In Renaissance Venice, politicians created the first Jewish ghetto, a place of containment that became an important cosmopolitan and commercial center of the Republic. The architectural structure of its housing, which became extraordinarily high to accommodate the increasing number of inhabitants, is interlaced with Venetian history, economy, and culture. In telling this story of Jewish perseverance and success, Dontatella Calabi also explores how the word “ghetto” became a synonym for unjust segregation. (208 /2017)

Christopher Hill. Penguin (pap) 20.00 6.98 England’s mid-17th century revolution resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic—the ideology of the propertied class—but there threatened another, quite different, revolution. In this 1972 history, Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Levellers, unpacking the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. Encapsulating a turbulent time, Hill discusses class relations, the outbursts of sexual freedom and deliberate blasphemy, and the great imaginative creations of John Milton and John Bunyan. (448/2021)

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United States D30778 ALL-AMERICAN DOGS A History of Presidential Pets from Every Era

Andrew Hager. Dey Street. 23.99 5.98 Dating all the way back to George Washington, dogs have been constant companions to nearly all of America’s presidents; of the past 46 chief executives, 31 have had at least one dog at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In this illustrated survey, the Presidential Pet Museum’s Andrew Hager considers how Americans’ relationships with dogs have evolved over the past 230 years, while considering such canines as Fala, FDR’s well-traveled Scottie; Tut, Hoover’s campaign photo-op; and Abe Lincoln’s Fido, who was also assassinated in 1865. (288/2022)

Daedalusbooks.com D30784 ACROSS THAT BRIDGE A Vision for Change and the Future of America

John Lewis. Hachette (pap) 16.00 4.98 The Civil Rights Movement gave rise to the protest culture we know today, and the experiences of leaders like the late congressman John Lewis, a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr., have never been more relevant. Enduring arrests and numerous physical attacks, Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the discipline and philosophy of nonviolence. In this winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography, Lewis offers timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change toward a freer, more peaceful society. (224/2017)

D30785 AMERICAN DIALOGUE The Founders and Us

Joseph J. Ellis. Knopf. 27.95 5.98 The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and here the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers poses the oftenasked question, “What would the Founding Fathers think?” Pondering how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today’s political conflicts, Joseph Ellis considers Jefferson in the context of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington grappling with American imperialism, and Madison on the doctrine of original intent. “Ellis knows that history is not simply about the past…. [This] is an exploration of our values that is both timely and timeless.”—Walter Isaacson (304/2018)

D30786 ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRACLE OF NEW ORLEANS The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny

Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger. Sentinel (pap) 17.00 5.98 The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side, with British troops defeating U.S. forces in nearly every engagement, and even setting the White House ablaze. If the British conquered New Orleans, they would control the mouth of the Mississippi River, cutting off all hopes of western expansion for the young nation. Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson, a Tennessee maverick with few friends in Washington. Much as they did in George Washington’s Secret Six, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger demonstrate that history’s results were never inevitable, and here they powerfully dramatize how Jackson assembled a coalition of frontier militiamen, Cajuns, Indians, freed slaves, and pirates, going deep into the bayou to defeat the most powerful military force in the world. (288/2017)

D30718 BLOOD BROTHERS The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill

Deanne Stillman. Simon & Schuster. 27.00 6.98 In 1883, “Buffalo” Bill Cody conceived of his Wild West show, a traveling extravaganza that later counted Sitting Bull among its top performers. As Deanne Stillman reveals, this brief professional collaboration was the root of a friendship that bound their two cultures together. Wrongly blamed and vilified for killing Custer, Sitting Bull later died during a botched arrest, an incident that Cody had been too late to prevent. Here too is the story of Annie Oakley, the sharpshooter who befriended both men and fostered their unusual comradeship. (304/2017)

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Nofi has clearly done a great deal of good, solid research to put together this compendium of information. His writing is clear, concise, and crisp. This attractive and fascinating book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of Civil War aficionados everywhere.” —San Francisco Book Review

D30719 THE BLUE & GRAY ALMANAC The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes & Slang

Albert Nofi. Casemate. 32.95 7.98 Did you know, 30 percent of the Confederacy’s generals had been lawyers before the Civil War? Seven veterans of the conflict went on to become president, as did one draft dodger. And toward the end, some Richmond citizens would throw “Starvation Parties”—soirees with no refreshments except water. We think it’s safe to say that Civil War buffs like trivia and lore, and Albert Nofi gives us a treasure chest of amusing stories, intriguing statistics, and anecdotes, speculations, and rumors, covering every aspect of the struggle. (304/2017)

D30787 COME FLY THE WORLD The Jet-Age Story of Pan Am

Julia Cooke. Mariner (pap) 16.99 4.98 Required to have a college degree, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 truly found an adventure as well as a job. While introducing stories of a memorable cast of characters—including one of the few Black stewardesses of the era, plus a small-town science major who turned her back on the lab—Julia Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War as they assisted with the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon. (288/2022)

D30788 DEAR LOS ANGELES The City in Diaries and Letters 1542 to 2018

David Kipen, ed. Modern Library. 26.00 6.98 The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate symbol of the American Dream. Reaching all the way back to the Spanish missions of the 16th century, the selections here are arranged as a daily reader, offering a year’s worth of insights and observations by Marilyn Monroe, Raymond Chandler, Octavia E. Butler, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, Joan Rivers, Winston Churchill, John Lennon, Ray Bradbury, Sylvia Plath, George Patton, Vladimir Nabokov, and many more. (576/2018)

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 who winds up working these jobs and the risks they entail—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)

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 modern warfare. 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 serving 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)

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D30730 IN SUN’S LIKENESS & POWER: VOL. 1 & 2 Cheyenne Accounts of Shield & Tipi Heraldry

James Mooney. Peter J. Powell, transcription & ed. Nebraska (2 vols, slipcased) 250.00 49.98 In traditional Cheyenne belief, shields are living, spirit-filled beings, radiating protection and blessing from the Supreme Being, so they are emblazoned with heraldic symbols of deep meaning to their bearers. From 1902 to 06, some 50 Cheyenne elders spoke with ethnologist James Mooney, sharing their interpretations of the heralds seen on shields and also tipis. Since 1955, Peter Powell, author of the National Book Award winner People of the Sacred Mountain, has been helping to preserve Mooney’s research on the religion, culture, and history of the Cheyenne. Along with Powell’s annotations, this lavish two volume set features nearly 150 color illustrations and 50 black and white photographs. (1320/2013)

D30790 FLY GIRLS How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

Keith O’Brien. Mariner. 28.00 5.98 Between the world wars, no sport was more popular or more dangerous than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice. Here Keith O’Brien introduces Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, a rebel from a blue blood family; and Louise Thaden, a young mother from Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes—and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all. (384/2019)

D30765 THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President, and Why It Failed

Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch. Flatiron. 29.99 6.98 Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but there was also a plot to kill him four years earlier, while he was on his way to his first inauguration. Here the authors who chronicled a threat to George Washington’s life in The First Conspiracy tell the riveting story of the white supremacist secret society who intended to ambush the President-elect in Baltimore. The heroes in this real-life political thriller include famed detective Allan Pinkerton, who infiltrated the group with undercover agents, and Kate Warne, one of the first female private detectives in America. (448/2020)

D30793 GUN BARONS The Weapons that Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

John Bainbridge Jr. St. Martin’s. 29.99 7.98 Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into American culture. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary, yet few people are aware of the roles these men played in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s through the Gilded Age. These firearm visionaries promoted guns not only for the soldier, but for the Everyman, becoming wealthy in the process. Bringing perspective to one of the nation’s most divisive issues, John Bainbridge traces how guns helped forge the American character. (352/2022)

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Vivid and well-researched…. An illuminating and distressing look at America’s history of racial violence.” —Publishers Weekly D30780 A LYNCHING AT PORT JERVIS Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

Philip Dray. FSG. 29.00 6.98 On June 2, 1892, in the village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis—accused of sexually assaulting a white woman—was lynched by a massive crowd. Americans were shocked by this incident, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist At the Hands of Persons Unknown suggests here, because it demonstrated that racial violence was not solely a Southern phenomenon. In reflecting on the causes of this pivotal moment in race relations, Philip Dray follows its ramifications down to the present day. (272/2022)

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 shortlived, as segregation and discrimination confined them to second-class citizenship for decades. In this profusely illustrated companion to the exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, 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)

D30766 THE MATTER OF BLACK LIVES Writings from The New Yorker

Jelani Cobb & David Remnick, eds. Ecco. 35.00 7.98 For nearly a century, The New Yorker has been a forum for readers to consider Black life in America from a variety of perspectives. Collecting some of the magazine’s finest reporting, profiles, memoir, and criticism, this substantial anthology includes Rebecca West’s classic account of a 1947 lynching trial, James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”, and Alex Ross on the importance of Marian Anderson. Here too are selections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Toni Morrison, Calvin Trillin, Zadie Smith, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others. (848/2021)

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)

D30758 PROFILES IN COURAGE 50th Anniversary Edition

John F. Kennedy. Harper Perennial (pap) 15.99 6.98 Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy’s inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots pays tribute to such figures as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, and Robert A. Taft. This special edition of the Pulitzer Prize winner includes a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Ernest Hemingway’s letter to JFK, remarks by Congressman John Lewis, and a brief biography of Kennedy. “It is refreshing and enlightening to have a first-rate politician write a thoughtful and persuasive book about political integrity.”—NYTBR (304/2006)

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D30550 THE INDISPENSABLES The Diverse SoldierMariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware

Patrick K. O’Donnell. Grove/Atlantic (pap) 20.00 6.98 In the annals of the American Revolution, no group played a more consequential role than the Marblehead Regiment. As Patrick O’Donnell recounts, these troops were consistently in the right place at the right time, fighting at Lexington and Bunker Hill, as well as facilitating the tense escape after the Battle of Brooklyn, and conveying 2400 of Washington’s men across the icy Delaware River on Christmas night 1776. Profiling such figures as Elbridge Gerry and Azor Orne, this tribute also delves into how this diverse coalition of patriots contributed to the America’s political, naval, and medical history. (432/2022)

D30551 WASHINGTON’S IMMORTALS The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

Patrick K. O’Donnell. Grove (pap) 18.00 6.98 A little over a month after the Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain, General Washington’s army faced off against over 20,000 British and Hessian soldiers at the Battle of Brooklyn. This was almost the end of the war, but thanks to a series of desperate bayonet charges by a heroic Maryland regiment—the “Immortal 400”—Washington was able to retreat and regroup. Bringing to life the forgotten story of these remarkable men, Patrick K. O’Donnell follows their fortunes through Trenton, Stony Point, Camden, and Yorktown, where their valor and resilience changed the course of history. (480/2017)

United States D30767 THE SHORES OF BOHEMIA A Cape Cod Story 1910–1960

John Taylor Williams. FSG. 35.00 7.98 Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation’s workforce and culture in the early decades of the 20th century, a diverse group of intellectuals settled in the vicinity of Cape Cod. Forming a bastion of Leftist thought and artistic experimentation, Eugene O’Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, and Edward Hopper founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools. A native with connections to some of the figures discussed here, John Taylor Williams offers a panoramic view of this unique time and place. (368/2022)

D30782 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES From the Arrival of Native American Tribes Through the Obama Presidency

Robert V. Remini. Harper Perennial (pap) 18.99 6.98 Rich and diverse, America’s history can nonetheless be understood in the context of several ideals that have clashed and evolved throughout the past few centuries. Best known for his National Book Award–winning Andrew Jackson trilogy, Robert Remini offers an accessible and lively guided tour of U.S. history, providing thoughtful if opinionated views on the migration of Native Americans, the founding of the Republic, the struggle over slavery, the emergence of the United States as a world power, and the battle against international terrorism. (416/2009)

D30735 RIVER MASTER John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon

Cecil Kuhne. Countryman. 24.95 5.98 Four years after the Civil War, veteran and amputee Major John Wesley Powell led a geological survey down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. The inexperienced and ill-equipped men threatened mutiny, but Powell persevered, resulting in a masterwork of adventure writing still held in high regard by the boatmen who follow his course today. From fresh primary sources and his own experience navigating Powell’s legendary route, Cecil Kuhne brings this remarkable chapter of frontier history to life. (288/2017)

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D30750 WORTHY OF THE NATION Washington, DC, from L’Enfant to the National Capital Planning Commission

Frederick Gutheim & Antoinette J. Lee. Laura Bush, fwd. Johns Hopkins. 75.00 24.98 Laid out by French engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant more than two centuries ago, Washington, D.C., has been developing ever since, both initiating and reflecting cultural shifts throughout America. Updated from the 1977 edition, this comprehensive treatment of Washington’s design and urban development explores its iconic monuments, but also its diverse neighborhoods. In the text, Friedrich Gutheim and Antoinette Lee trace architectural innovations in the region and examine the reasons behind the rapid growth of the city’s suburbs. More than 200 illustrations are included, providing a detailed look at how the capital has changed through the years. (440/2006)

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D30783 A SHOT IN THE MOONLIGHT How a Freed Slave and Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

Ben Montgomery. Little, Brown. 28.00 6.98 In 1897 Kentucky, former slave George Dinning was wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm; pursued by a mob, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy family. So began one of the strangest legal episodes of its era—one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction. Here Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story whose characters include Bennett Young, the Confederate war hero who became Dinning’s lawyer. (304/2021)

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)

D30769 THE WAR BEFORE THE WAR Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

Andrew Delbanco. Penguin. 30.00 7.98 The struggle over slavery divided not only the American nation but also the hearts and minds of individual citizens faced with the timeless problem of when to submit to unjust laws and when to resist. Here Andrew Delbanco examines slavery through the lens of politics, law, and the narratives of enslaved black people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, and in this New York Times Notable Book, he illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves, and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still. (464/2018)

D30741 VOICES OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Personal Reminiscences of Union Veterans

Vincent L. Burns. Casemate. 37.95 6.98 During and after the Civil War, many Union soldiers documented their experiences, and understanding what these veterans chose to record and why helps us to better understand this central moment in American life. With an emphasis on the period between Gettysburg and the end of the war, Vincent Burns shares samples of their letters and reminiscences, while adding historical context to these eloquent and opinionated accounts. (384/2021)

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D23151 AIR WAR MARKET GARDEN: THE SHRINKING PERIMETER

Martin W. 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)

D30749 CHAMPIONS OF FLIGHT Clayton Knight and William Heaslip: Artists Who Chronicled Aviation from the Great War to Victory in WWII

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Sheryl Fiegel. Casemate. 49.95 14.98 Born before the advent of powered flight, Clayton Joseph Knight (1891–1969) and William John Heaslip (1898–1970) became the two preeminent American aviation artists of their time, as they chronicled the golden age of aviation—from Charles Lindbergh’s epochal transatlantic flight through the most devastating war in world history. Featuring 400 illustrations, this dual biography shows how Knight and Heaslip fueled the imagination of the public, inspiring the generation who took to the skies in the wake of Pearl Harbor. (304/2019)

D30673 CHRONOLOGY: 1941–1945 U.S. Army in World War II: Special Studies

Mary H. Williams. Whitman. 29.95 9.98 From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the armistice with Japan on September 2nd, 1945, this book provides an encyclopedic, day-by-day chronology of most of World War II’s pivotal events. Despite the emphasis on American war efforts, this 1958 overview is truly a global compendium of the soldiers, battles, and political maneuvers that characterized the largest conflict in history. (672/2012)

D22896 CHURCHILL’S HELLRAISERS The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

Damien Lewis. Citadel (pap) 16.95 4.98 In the winter of 1944, the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defenses of the Gothic Line. David “The Mad Piper” Kilpatrick and small group of men were parachuted in, hoping to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans’ impregnable headquarters. As the mission began, high command radioed through an order to stand down, having assessed the chances of success at little more than zero. But as the author of SAS Ghost Patrol and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare recounts, in defiance of orders, these soldiers were going in. (416/2021)

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D30789 FIRE AND FORTITUDE The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941–1943

John C. McManus. Dutton Caliber. 34.00 6.98 In most accounts of World War II, the Marines are celebrated as the victors of the Pacific, a reflection of a well-deserved reputation for valor. Yet the majority of fighting and dying in the war against Japan, John McManus points out, was done not by Marines but by unsung Army soldiers. In this first book of a two-volume history, McManus follows the Army from Pearl Harbor through the 1943 Battle of Makin, as it transformed from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut. Enriching the narrative are accounts of the larger than life generals, but also the voices of men otherwise lost to history: the Army grunts who endured unimaginable hardships to attain victory. (640/2019)

D30791 GENIUSES AT WAR Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age

David A. Price. Knopf. 28.00 6.98 Planning the Normandy invasion, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny, which was more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher. Drawing on newly declassified files, David Price recounts how Alan Turing joined with mathematician Max Newman and maverick working-class engineer Tommy Flowers to create Colossus, the world’s first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end. (256/2021)

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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D30795 I MARCHED WITH PATTON A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army’s Greatest Generals

Frank Sisson & Robert Wise. William Morrow (pap) 18.99 4.98 Growing up fatherless in Depression-era Oklahoma, Frank Sisson’s life changed in 1944 when he enlisted in the Army and was deployed to France. Over the next six months, as the war in Europe raged, Sisson would participate in many of World War II’s most consequential events, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Dachau. Three quarters of a century later, Frank shares his remarkable story of life under George Patton for the first time, offering a unique look at the legendary general’s leadership, the experience of combat on the front lines, and the final days of World War II and its direct aftermath. (304/2021)

daedalusbooks.com D30755 MADAME FOURCADE’S SECRET WAR The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

D30757 NAZI WIVES The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany

James Wyllie. St. Martin’s. 28.99 7.98 Lynne Olson. Behind Goebbels, Random House. 30.00 7.98 Himmler, Goering, and World War II produced its fair Hess were their wives, share of unlikely heroes and complex individuals with heroines, including 31-yeardistinctive personalities old French mother Mariewho were captivated by Madeleine Fourcade, born to privilege and known for Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by her beauty and glamour. Fourcade became the leader of Nazi ideology. These women loved and lost, raised a vast intelligence organization named Alliance, but the families and quarreled with their husbands and each Gestapo dubbed it Noah’s Ark because its agents used other, all the while jostling for position with the the names of animals as their aliases. No other French Fuhrer himself. As James Wyllie points out here, spy network lasted as long or supplied as much crucial though, they were not unaware; the evidence of intelligence, and the Germans pursued them relentlessly, genocide was all around them: the stolen art on their executing hundreds of its three thousand agents. Under walls, the slave labor in their homes, and the prothe code name “Hedgehog,” Fourcade stayed on the duce grown in concentration camps on their tables. move, and as the author of Last Hope Island recounts (288/2020) here, her escapes are the stuff of legend. (464/2019)

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 momentby-moment drama that the American pilots experienced as they hunted one man in the vast expanses of Asia and the Pacific. (448/2021)

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D30770 THE WAR An Intimate History 1941 – 1945

Geoffrey Ward & Ken Burns. Knopf (pap) 30.00 9.98 Vast in scope and causing untold destruction, World War II can be difficult to grasp at the human level. Focusing on four towns—Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama— this profusely illustrated companion to Ken Burns’s Emmy Award–winning 2007 PBS series follows 40 people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, all the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps, while the profiles include soldiers but also defense workers, schoolchildren, Japanese American internees, and families who struggled to stay together. (480/2010)

D30760 SONS AND SOLDIERS The Untold Stories of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the US Army to Fight Hitler

D30773 THREE DAYS AT THE BRINK FDR’s Most Daring Gamble to Win World War II

D30768 THE STORM ON OUR SHORES One Island Two Soldiers and the Forgotten Battle of WWII

D30772 THE YORK PATROL The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I’s Most Famous Soldier

Bruce Henderson. William Morrow (pap) 16.99 5.98 As a second world war loomed, some Jewish parents sent their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. After the United States entered the war, these boys— now young men—returned to fight for their adopted homeland. Named for the Maryland fort where they trained, the Ritchie Boys were used to interrogate prisoners and gather tactical intelligence, a field in which they had no equals. Drawing on interviews, Bruce Henderson vividly re-creates the stories of these men, tracing their journeys from childhood through their feats during the war and their attempts to find their missing loved ones. (448/2018)

Mark Obsmascik. Atria (pap) 17.00 5.98 May 1943. The Battle of Attu was raging on the Aleutian island, as an impenetrable fog and Arctic winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Educated in America, Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi was called to enlist in the army of his native Japan, and this young doctor reluctantly agreed. As Mark Obmascik details here, Tatsuguchi kept a diary of events in this forgotten theater of the war, never knowing that it would be found by an American soldier named Dick Laird. Reeling from his own combat experiences, Laird—and later, other soldiers—found solace in the diary, which showed the common humanity on both sides of the battle. Four decades later, Obmascik recounts, Laird sought closure by attempting to return the diary to Tatsuguchi’s daughter. (272/2020)

Brett Baier, with Catherine Whitney. Mariner (pap) 16.99 5.98 In November 1943, the Nazis and their Axis allies controlled nearly the entire European continent, yet that same month, the “Big Three”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin—secretly met for the first time to chart a strategy for defeating Adolf Hitler. Over three days in Tehran, Iran, this trio agreed upon the D-Day invasion and discussed what might come after the war. As Bret Baier asserts here, it was FDR’s finest hour, yet the three men barely escaped a Nazi assassination plot, code-named Operation Long Jump. (448/2020)

James Carl Nelson. William Morrow. 28.99 6.98 The single greatest American hero of the Great War was Alvin York, a poor young farmer from Tennessee who single-handedly killed two dozen Germans and captured another 132—in a single day. It was a great story, inspiring the Hollywood film starring Gary Cooper, but as James Carl Nelson relates, it was not the whole story. Returning to that fateful day in October, 1918, Nelson reintroduces York and offers profiles of 16 of his fellow-soldiers at the Argonne, including a patrician Connecticut farmer, a runaway who joined the Army under a false name, and a Polish immigrant who enlisted in hopes of expediting his citizenship (288/2021)

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HY9952 THE DANISH ART OF WHITTLING Simple Projects for the Home

Frank Egholm. Batsford. 14.95 Whittling is an immensely satisfying and creative occupation, yet many people don’t realize how easy it is to get started. Danish craftsman Frank Egholm shares his passion for simple woodcarving in this illustrated guide full of beautiful Scandinavian projects. You’ll find wooden toys (including a bird whistle, play sword, and animal figures), practical items like door hooks and butter knives, and decorative buttons, necklaces, a chess set, and surprisingly delicate carved flowers. (144/2018)

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UQ9572 FUN WITH PAPER PLANES KIT

Andy Chipling. SpiceBox. 24.99 Inside this kit you’ll find an entire fleet of colorful paper planes, including two World’s Record designs. The founder of Britain’s Paper Aircraft Association, Andy Chipling wrote the rules for Guinness world record attempts, and here provides his tips for folding and flying outstanding paper airplanes, along with instructions for 16 different designs. The kit includes 60 preprinted papers complete with aircraft markings and folding lines, 20 colorful plastic clips, a power launcher with 20 elastic bands, and two sheets of stick-on decals for adding engines, insignia, and other aircraft details. (80pp/2015)

UW7092 ART SCHOOL DRAWING KIT A Complete Kit for Art Enthusiasts SpiceBox. 39.99

Learning to draw is not as hard as it looks—you can create your own frameable art with the lessons and materials here, even if you’re a beginner. The kit features the book Drawing Styles and Techniques, with lessons on form and shape, perspective, shading, still life, landscapes, and nude figures, as well as six stepby-step projects that will result in finished works. It provides you with 7 different drawing pencils for soft and sharp lines, a charcoal pencil, a black felt tip pen, an art eraser, a metal pencil sharpener, 4 small tubes of watercolor, 2 paint brushes, and a 9½ × 11 inch sketch pad with 25 sheets of art paper. (72pp/2020)

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Learn how to transform ordinary paper into unique gift packages, decorations, and tags with this complete kit. It features a book with lessons for creating beautiful calligraphic and decorative writing, along with ten step by step projects you can complete. Create paper flowers and ribbons, butterflies and feathers, adorable milk carton boxes, and fancy custom cards and tags with the materials provided, including 20 selfadhesive pearl embellishments, glitter tape, gold paint, black ink, glue, jute twine, craft papers, and punch-out elements. You’ll also find a craft knife, scoring tool, metal ruler, and an oblique calligraphy dip pen for truly elegant writing. (72pp/2020)

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For decades, the family-run Simpson & Vail tea company of Connecticut has been creating exquisite custom blends. Here they commemorate our National Parks with a gift box of ten different loose teas. Yellowstone, for example, is a black tea with bergamot, florals and fruits. Acadia features green tea with currants and cornflower petals. Joshua Tree is an herbal tisane with organic green rooibos, hibiscus, and agave. Each tea is in a resealable packet and makes 6 to 10 cups. Simpson & Vail donates 10% of their sale to help preserve our National Parks.

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Like fine wines and gourmet coffees, there is a world of flavors to be found in tea. Palais des Thés, Paris introduces you to the art of tea tasting with this sampler of 10 varieties from single estates. Discover the buttery vanilla of Milky Oolong from Chiang Ri in Thailand, the hazelnut notes of Jejudo Imperial grown on Korea’s Jeju Island, or the honeyed flavor of black tea from Kirinyaga, Kenya. Each is presented in a 12-gram vial of loose leaf tea (enough to make a full pot). Includes a booklet with tasting notes and information on each estate.

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Is your kitchen scale taking up too much space in your kitchen? This clever little scale folds up in a cheerful red hardback cover, so you can tuck it on the shelf with the rest of your cookbooks. It weighs in grams and ounces (up to 5 kilos or 11 pounds) and lets you re-zero the scale with a container on it for net weights. The easy-clean book measures 6 × 7½ inches closed and provides a conversion chart for quick recipe adjustments. CR2032 lithium battery included. Does it matter where salt comes from? Aren't all peppercorns alike? Prepare to discover new worlds of taste. Sea Salts tin comes with ¼-oz. samples of 16 different kinds including Fleur de Sel from Brittany and Mexico's Flora Blanca. Great gift for adventurous cooks and curious eaters. Embossed tins are 5" square.

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Let the world know what you prefer to be toting with this roomy shoulder bag, emblazoned with a shelf full of books. At a generous 16” × 14”× 4”, we have yet to find a volume that won’t fit. The sturdy canvas will hold up to years of library runs.

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UW6492 FOREST WALKING Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America

HBE362 A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 500 WALKS

Sarah Baxter. Thunder Bay. 27.99 From the Continental Peter Wohlleben & Divide to the coasts Jane Billinghurst. of Cornwall, and from Greystone the heights of Machu (pap) 18.95 Picchu to Australia’s When you walk in mysterious Uluru, the the woods, do you world is best explored use all five senses to explore your surroundings? For on foot. Spanning most of us, the answer is no—but when we do, a human history, this walk in the woods can go from pleasant to immersive beautifully illustrated book relates the tales behind and restorative. Here the author of The Hidden Life of the top 500 walks that have shaped our civilization. Trees and Jane Billinghurst offer a tutorial in reading It’s easy to imagine traveling back in time as you read signs from the trees, learning about the ecosystem, about convicts and conquistadores, silk traders and and gaining practical insights for fully enjoying North Buddhists who have hiked along routes for purposes America’s awe-inspiring woodlands. as varied as the terrain they covered. The individual “A wonderfully clear and practical guide for all ages. accounts combine knowledgeable commentary on This book will fast-track you into the joys of spending the history and geology of the site, along with some time amongst the trees and their rich communities.” practical travel tips. (400/2016) —Tristan Gooley (240/2022)

UW6482 CLANS AND TARTANS OF SCOTLAND

Roddy Martine. Birlinn (pap) 10.95 The Scots are a remarkable people with a justifiably proud history and culture which they have successfully passed on through generations, even when they have left Scotland for other parts of the world. This compact book sets out to identify the larger Scottish clan and family names, their tartans, septs (dependent family names), heraldic crests, mottos, ancestral lands and allegiances. Color photographs appear throughout, highlighting the textures and patterns of these deeply symbolic tartans. (224/2022)

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UM0322 MARK TWAIN FOR DOG LOVERS True and Imaginary Adventures with Man’s Best Friend

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D31021 THE SECRET WORLD OF WEATHER How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop

Tristan Gooley. Neil Gower, illus. The Experiment (pap) 17.95 If ever there were a writer who truly understood the great outdoors, it is Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator, who here turns his gaze upward to explain how every cloud, breeze, sunbeam, and change in temperature reveals something about the weather—if you know what to look for. From a lifetime of observations, Gooley not only shows us how to read weather patterns, he also unlocks secrets about our environment. (400/2021)

UW9162 HOW TO READ THE WILDERNESS An Illustrated R. Kent Rasmussen, ed. Lyons. 17.95 Guide to the This collection honors man’s best friend with 46 short Natural Wonders of North America works by Mark Twain, including “Why Dogs Aren’t

Nature Study Guild. Chronicle. 35.00 In decades past, the pocketable Finder field guides from the Nature UM0312 Study Guild inspired MARK TWAIN FOR CAT LOVERS us to lace up our hikTrue and Imaginary ing boots and discover Adventures with Feline Friends the beauty all around us in forests, tidepools, streams, Mark Dawidziak, ed. the desert, and the night sky. This chunky handbook Lyons. 17.95 gathers some of the finest illustrations and charts from Felines take center stage in these 40 delightful tales those guides, packed with detailed information and and anecdotes, including “The Cat Who Conquered full of the visual charm of midcentury graphic styles. an Elephant” and “Discipline ‘Don’t Apply’ to a Cat.” Learn to recognize the lobed leaf of an oracle oak, Twain scholar Mark Dawidziak explores the writer’s the webbed tracks of a river otter, and the fine creamlifelong devotion to cats through stories, excerpts, colored tentacles of a frilled anemone, as you come to quotes, photos, and illustrations. (208/2016) understand the effects of climate zones, habitats, rainfall, and seasonal changes. (500/2022) Welcome at Funerals” and “A Dog with Genius in Him.” R. Kent Rasmussen traces the presence of dogs in Twain’s life, both the ones he knew personally and those he encountered on his travels. (216/2016)

UW9152 SLOW BIRDING The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard

Joan E. Strassmann. TarcherPerigee. 27.00 For many birders, the goal seems to be how many species you can spot and check off your list—and the more exotic or rare, the better. For animal behaviorist Joan Strassmann however, the real reward is birding right where you are, and she encourages readers to slow down and really look at the spectacular birds all around us. She tells colorful stories of the robins, sparrows, mockingbirds, cardinals, and others we often see but might never have though much about. Strassmann also offers insights on what to look for in individual species and the reasons behind specific behaviors, as well as bird-focused activities that will open your eyes to them. (352/2022)

UW8482 THE TREE BOOK The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

Michael Scott, et al. Smithsonian/ DK. 50.00 Combining a natural history of trees with a wider look at their significance in our culture and their importance to our civilization, this immersive and gorgeously illustrated Smithsonian guide profiles 90 favorite and extraordinary species. Here are gnarled oaks and towering redwoods, sacred banyans and otherworldly baobabs, ancient aspens and imposing kapoks, seen not only in dramatic photos but also striking artworks and vintage illustrations. We see not just their life cycles and inner workings but also how they provide vital support for the other inhabitants of our planet, from fungi to humans. (352/2022)

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D30685 THE 1000 MOST ASKED GARDENING QUESTIONS

Daphne Ledward. Pyramid. 12.99 4.98 How do I prune a rose hedge? Should I remove grass clippings from my lawn? And how can I prevent earwigs from spoiling the dahlias? In the multifaceted world of gardening, the same questions arise time and time again. Organized season-by-season, Daphne Ledward answers the 1,000 questions that can frustrate all gardeners alike, dealing briefly with such issues as knowing how to identify your soil type, the finer points of pruning and propagation, seeds versus seedlings, dealing with chronic pests and diseases, and finding plants for difficult places. (176/2022)

D30687 HAPPY BONSAI Choose It, Shape It, Love It

Michael Tran. DK. 14.99 5.98 Do you know your shari from your nebari? Can you tell literati styling from informal upright? Want to know how to create that gnarled and twisted look? Guiding you along the path to gardening enlightenment, Michael Tran presents care and display profiles for 40 trees—including Japanese pine, Chinese elm, and English oak—plus fully illustrated step-by-steps for more than 20 bonsai techniques and styles. In straightforward tutorials, Tran explains how to prune, shape, and tend to the tree’s needs to create a beautiful living sculpture. (144/2020)

D30777 THE FIRST-TIME GARDENER Growing Plants and Flowers

D30688 INDOOR BONSAI

Paul Lesniewicz. Cassell (pap) 14.99 5.98 Although the conventional bonsai tree requires a site in the open air, Paul Lesniewicz looks Sean & Allison at those species that can sucMcManus. cessfully be kept indoors all year Cool Springs (pap) round, perfect for those who live 26.99 5.98 in colder climates or who have Caring for outdoor limited space. With color photos plantings can be throughout, this guide walks you through choosing intimidating, espea plant or growing it from seed, offering beginners a cially if the process wealth of instruction and advice on planting, pests is completely new to and diseases, shaping, and pruning. (208/2021) you. Before running to the hardware store to stock up on bags of mulch and tools you don’t really need, D30808 arm yourself with the know-how to plant and tend GARDEN SHEARS SET outdoor areas correctly and safely. Even if you don’t 3 Garden Scissors, know annuals from perennials, this illustrated comPerfect for Bonsai panion will start at square one with advice on selectKikkerland. 19.95 ing, planting, maintaining, and enjoying every plant in We like to imagine that your garden. (176/2021) Gertrude Jekyll might have used shears like these in her gorgeous gardens. Made of D30678 carbon steel in a timeless rusGARDENING tic fashion, these handsome SHORTCUTS garden scissors are strong enough and sharp enough Jenny Hendy. for everything from rose bushes to bonsai trees, with DK (pap) 17.95 6.98 4 inch, 7 inch, and 7½ inch sizes to give you just the right snip. Millions of people love their gardens but wish they weren’t quite so demanding. Imagine growing simple fruit and vegetables quickly, equipping yourself with a list of the best plants to buy for your garden in every situation, and losing fewer plants to pests and diseases. It is indeed possible, and in this illustrated guide, Jenny Hendy shares dozens of ideas that are creative, practical, and cost-effective, so that your garden can become a place of contentment and tranquility. (192/2012)

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D30686 RHS GARDENING SCHOOL Everything You Need to Know

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Simon Akeroyd & Ross Bayton. Mitchell Beazley. 24.99 6.98 It doesn’t matter if you’re an old hand at gardening or just starting out, there are always things to discover and opportunities to improve, whether it’s mastering a new technique or brushing up on your botany. Drawing on the expertise of the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society), this abundantly illustrated guide begins with the basics of setting up a garden and selecting appropriate plants. Later sections delve into propagating, watering, pruning, mulching, composting, and pest control, with additional info on caring for potatoes, apples, roses, evergreens, and more. (256/2022)

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D20906 THE ART OF DRAWING STATUES

D20489 HOOP N LOOP How to Embroider Your Pet Dog’s Portrait

Giovanni Civardi. Search (pap) 17.95 3.98 Carol Tai. In this straightforward Hardie Grant. guide, Giovanni Civardi 22.99 6.98 teaches the art of drawYou already know ing statues, sharing that you are your his expert advice on dog’s biggest fan, so re-creating beautiful why not proclaim it? sculptures in pencil with With this book, you can create personalized t-shirts, lifelike detail, observing cushions, and tote bags featuring a portrait of your human anatomy, form, and structure. (64/2017) pet. Here are templates and projects showing you how to re-create 20 breeds in thread form. (176/2020)

D21053 BRICK HISTORY Amazing Historical Scenes to Build from LEGO

D21239 PAINTING ON POTTERY 22 Modern Colourful Designs

Warren Elsmore. Tania Zaoui. B.E.S. (pap) 18.99 5.98 Search (pap) 14.95 4.98 The author of Brick City Making beautiful pottery gives us 70 LEGO projis easier than you might ects to build and to enjoy, think! The 22 colorful captured in 400 color projects here include photos and two foldout decorative plates, bowls, posters. Try your hand at cups and pots, vases, a the D-Day landings, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have (96/2019) a Dream” speech, and the wedding of Prince William lamp, earrings, and a necklace. and Kate Middleton. (256/2016)

D12255 DOLLAR ORIGAMI 10 Origami Projects, Including the Amazing Koi Fish

D22103 QUILTING Patchwork and Applique DK. 40.00 19.98

Get started in quilting, patchwork, and appliqué with this Won Park. illustrated guide, Thunder Bay (spiral) which includes 100 19.95 5.98 quilt block patCan you really turn a terns and practice dollar into a camera? exercises. Among With this book of the 25 projects are ten origami models quilts, cushions, you could have that camera, plus a butterfly, penguin, and eagle, each fold- bags, linens, soft furnishings, and sewing accessories. (320/2014) ed from a U.S. dollar. Here too are a crab, a scorpion, and a koi fish that offers a challenge for seasoned origami fans. (80/2011) D21590

D30561 DRAW LIKE AN ARTIST 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects: Step-By-Step Realistic Line Drawing

TO THE OCEAN DEEP The Longest Coloring Book in the World

Sarah Yoon, illus. Laurence King (pap) Melissa Washburn. 14.95 5.98 Quarry (pap) 19.99 5.98 Unfolding to a From beginning sketch 15-foot height, this lines to a finished drawcoloring book takes ing, this guide will help artists past undersea you to accurately depict caves and submarines, an eagle, a peacock, a tougiant sea snakes and can, a monarch butterfly, a luna moth, a bumblebee, a whales, and even a dragonfly, and many more. (112/2020) scuba-equipped T-rex. You can use pencils, markers, or paint to color this crazy adventure, and look for Sarah Yoon’s adorable little aliens making Daedalusbooks.com mischief along the way. (14/2016)

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D21205 THE AQUATIC BIRDS COLORING BOOK

Ellyn Elson & Lawrence M. Elson. Collins Reference (pap) 22.99 5.98 Make your own bird guide as you color these accurate images of an osprey, a great blue heron, a pelican, a stork, an albatross, a flamingo, a swan, and many others. Each illustration includes a photo and description. (140/2020)

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D30025 HIPPO BIRDIE TWO EWE BIRTHDAY PUZZLE: 300 PIECE JIGSAW

Sandra Boynton, illus. Workman. 19.95 6.98 One of our favorite birthday greetings ever is now a 300 piece jigsaw, as Sandra Boynton’s cartoon animals illustrate the message “Hippo birdie two ewe.” The finished puzzle is 19 × 26 inches.

D16221 OLIVETTI PATTERN SERIES PENCIL SET

Made by Memo. Princeton Architectural Press. 14.95 5.98 A tribute to the iconic Olivetti Lettera typewriter, this D23362 DAVID HICKS BACKGAMMON SET set of 12 soft graphite pencils is wrapped with red David Hicks. and black patterns produced on an Olivetti. Galison. 29.99 9.98 Is it a backgammon board, or a work of modern art? D26107 The set includes 30 black and white wood checkers, BOB ROSS QUOTE CARDS 4 dice, and a doubling die.

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D26117 ANDY WARHOL BANANA JOURNAL WITH POSTCARDS

The Andy Warhol Foundation. Galison (journal) 16.99 5.98 For Warhol fans, this midsize journal features his iconic (40/2019) imagery, with gridded and lined pages, a storage pocket, and three postcards.

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D30796 THE NEW YORKER ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARTOONS A Semi-Serious A-to-Z Archive

Robert Mankoff, ed. David Remnick, foreword. Black Dog & Leventhal (2 vols, slipcased) 100.00 24.98 For twenty years the cartoon editor of The New Yorker (until he retired to a farm Upstate a few years back), Bob Mankoff presents this oversized slipcased twovolume album of the magazine’s finest cartoons. Over 12 inches high—and 4 inches thick—this is a whopper, organizing nearly 3,000 cartoons into 250 categories of recurring themes and visual tropes. You’ll find accountants, Adam & Eve, adultery, advertising, aging, air travel, and eight other topics just in the As, not to mention banana peels, meeting St. Peter, being stranded on a desert island, snowmen, lion tamers, the Grim Reaper, and of course, dogs. Mankoff ’s commentary adds to the fun, while New Yorker editor David Remnick provides a foreword, and this edition includes a frameable cartoon print from the magazine’s archives. (1536/2018)

D30751 STUPID ANCIENT HISTORY

Leland Gregory. Andrews McMeel (pap) 9.99 3.98 In ancient Rome, long before D30684 the advent of the Christian CATS ARE Bible, men swore to “tell the PEOPLE, TOO truth, the whole truth, and nothA Collection ing but the truth” by placing of Cat Cartoons their right hand on their testo Curl up With ticles. Egyptians pinched brides on their wedding day, Dave Coverly. and plastic surgery was first practiced in India more Square Fish (pap) 16.99 4.98 than 2800 years ago. Don’t let the solemn statues and grand monuments fool you—people living in ancient “It is with mixed emotions that I accept my ninth times were at least as strange as people are now, suglifetime achievement award,” a fortunate cat tells the crowd. In these sly cartoons by the creator of the comic gests Leland Gregory, who offers a humorous miscellany of quotations, anecdotes, and forgotten pages Speed Bump, Noah consoles two cats who are terrified from the weird world of ancient history. (256/2012) to be surrounded by so much water, a worm is spared when the early bird is eaten by an even earlier feline, a kitty who can’t spell gets a mouthful of mousse, and a mama cat tells her kitten “This is our 36th nap today—I can’t read you a bedtime story every time.” (224/2020) D30738

D30710 CATS ARE THE WORST

Bexy McFly. Megan Lynn Kott, Illus. Chronicle. 14.95 5.98 For every complaint humans have about their feline friends (knocked over glasses!), cats have one about their humans (unprovoked vacuuming!) In her spot-on watercolors, Megan Lynn Kott perfectly captures the essence of cats as they walk on the table, sit on the laptop, claw the couch, block the TV screen, and let their tales drag through your dinner. To be fair, humans are shown here to be poor caretakers who insist on sleeping at night, incorporate other pets into the home, and generally fail to provide food in a timely manner. (80/2019)

THAT’S NOT FUNNY, THAT’S SICK The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream

Ellin Stein. W.W. Norton. 27.95 4.98 Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with fellow satirists Michael O’Donoghue and P.J. O’Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy. Tracing its influence, Ellin Stein notes how it led to Saturday Night Live and the film Animal House, while serving as a training ground for Bill Murray, John Belushi, and Chevy Chase. (464/2013)

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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)

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)

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D30774 TIGER & PHIL Golf’s Most Fascinating Rivalry

Bob Harig. St. Martin’s. 29.99 7.98 For more than two decades, there have been two golfers who have captivated, inspired, frustrated, and entertained us more than any others: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. While Woods has long been the sport’s biggest star, the more low-profile Mickleson is a fascinating figure in his own right. Both players have gone through injury and health problems, legal problems, falling in and out of favor with the press, and over the course of their time together in the game, Bob Harig reveals, they have gradually become not just rivals but friends. (368/2022)

D30775 TRUE The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson

Kostya Kennedy. St. Martin’s. 29.99 7.98 For many of us, Jackie Robinson remains baseball’s singular figure, but he also opened the door for Black Americans to participate in other sports, and was a national figure who spoke and wrote eloquently about inequality. Offering new perspective on a complex man, Kostya Kennedy focuses on four transformative years in Robinson’s life: 1946, his first year playing in the essentially all-white minor leagues; 1949, when he won the MVP Award as a Brooklyn Dodger; 1956, his disappointing final season in baseball; and 1972, the year of his untimely death. (288/2022)

D30700 WORLD OF SPORTS A Book for Sports Fans All Over the Globe

Ben Groundwater. Hardie Grant. 12.99 4.98 You can’t hope to understand a nation without understanding how it feels about its sports. This worldwide compendium explores baseball, soccer, golf, tennis, basketball, ice hockey, NASCAR, cricket, and American football, but also sumo, camel racing, lucha libre wrestling, Basque stone-lifting, and wheelchair rugby, among many others. Each entry contains fun facts about the history and the appeal of the sport, and illustrations appear throughout. Also included are a guide to the world’s best stadiums and a calendar of sporting events. (112/2021)

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D22994 DANIEL DEFOE’S RAILWAY JOURNEY A Surreal Odyssey Through Modern Britain

Travel D30672 THE LITTLE PLEASURES OF PARIS

Leslie Jonath. Lizzy Stewart, illus. Chronicle. 19.95 7.98 Stuart Campbell. Organized by season, here Sandstone (pap) Import 5.98 are a year’s worth of quintesSetting out to travel on every sentially Parisian sights and mile of railway in Great experiences, including secret Britain, two eccentric pengardens bursting with roses, sioners were sure to have exotic plumage at the bird the odyssey of a lifetime. Surreal and poignant by market, candied violets at turns, Stuart Campbell’s extremely witty account Paris’s oldest sweet shop, of the trip takes stock of the people they meet and dazzling colors in the stained the unwanted adventures that befall them. Looking glass at Sainte-Chapelle, and the Mona Lisa drawing crowds back three centuries, Campbell also shares the at the Louvre. Blending paint and pencil, Lizzy Stewart’s story of Daniel Defoe—a classic writer, but also a soldier, businessman, and spy—who completed his whimsical illustrations add further delight to this tour of own bizarre railroad journey. (320/2018) the city’s most charming places, amusements, and pastimes. (112/2016)

D23181 AN EMBARRASSMENT OF MANGOES A Caribbean Interlude

Ann Vanderhoof. Random House (pap) 15.00 4.98 In the mid-1990s, middle-aged professional Ann Vanderhoof and her husband, Steve quit their jobs, moved onto a 42-foot sailboat, and set sail for the Caribbean on a two-year voyage of culinary and cultural discovery that took them to 16 countries. It proved to be a lifechanging adventure, and here Vanderhoof describes the sun-drenched landscapes and enchanting characters that they encountered along the way. Giving a sense of what it’s like to hike lush rain forests and adapt to life on “island time,” Vanderhoof also shares the joy of pulling supper out of the sea (and she includes a few recipes). (320/2005)

D30727 THE GECKOS OF BELLAPAIS Memories of Cyprus

Joachim Sartorius. Haus. 22.95 4.98 Coveted by a succession of foreign powers, Cyprus has been occupied by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, British, and the Turks, all of whom have left their mark on this Mediterranean island. Poet and diplomat Joachim Sartorius lived there before and after the 1974 partition, and here he evokes Cyprus’s natural beauty, its distinct culture, and such locales as the ruins of Salamis; the Abbey of Bellapais; the fortified harbor of Kyrenia; and Famagusta, the setting for Shakespeare’s Othello. (178/2015)

D23415 LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

Harley Rustad. HarperCollins. 29.99 7.98 In his early thirties, Justin Alexander Shetler quit his job and traveled around the world, while also documenting his travels on Instagram. In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition. Accompanied by a sadhu (Indian holy man), he set off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake—a journey from which he would never return. Telling Shetler’s story, Harley Rustad also questions what it can tell us about the ways we all seek fulfillment. “Rustad draws readers into a tale of adventure and tragedy that, despite its dark outcome, is illuminated with a remarkable sense of humanity.” —Publishers Weekly (286/2022)

D30753 THE RULE OF THE LAND Walking Ireland’s Border

Garett Carr. Faber & Faber (pap) 22.95 6.98 Following Brexit, the United Kingdom’s border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is the frontier with the European Union. Historically, this invisible line has hosted smugglers and kings, runaways and terrorists, ever changing the way we look at nationhood, land, and power. To uncover this landscape, Garrett Carr travelled Ireland’s border on foot and by canoe. From encounters with border dwellers to uncovering hidden pathways and ancient monuments, Carr presents the borderland as a unique realm of its own, and asks what it holds for the future. (320/2017)

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This book would be enjoyed by those seeking knowledge of Everest beyond the climbing narratives, as well as those who appreciate the details of navigation and exploration.” —Booklist D30692 THE HUNT FOR MOUNT EVEREST

Craig Storti. Nicholas Brealey. 24.95 6.98 After the height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, no westerner got within 40 miles of it for the next 71 years. Even still, the world’s tallest peak played a significant role in the First Afghan War, the Survey of India, and the Anglo-Russian rivalry known as the Great Game. Telling a tale rife with spies and political intrigues, Craig Storti uncovers the fascinating and still largely overlooked saga of how two English climbers, George Mallory and Guy Bullock, became the first westerners to set foot on Mt. Everest, claiming the last remaining major prize in the history of exploration. (224/2021)

D30703 WHY TRAVEL MATTERS A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel

Craig Storti. Nicholas Brealey. 24.99 6.98 When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Exploring the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for three decades with quotations and reflections by St. Augustine, Mark Twain, Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Bowles, Aldous Huxley, Freya Stark, Pico Iyer, and many others. (202/2018)

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 down a crevasse 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)

D23475 UNDERGROUND WORLDS A Guide to Spectacular Subterranean Places

David Farley. Little, Brown. 27.99 7.98 From bone-filled catacombs to hand-carved cave complexes large enough to house 20,000 people, this book is packed with more than 50 unusual destinations that take some digging to find. In the text, David Farley revels in the unexpected, whether it is a cave city in China which houses one of the world’s largest collections of Buddhist art or an old salt mine converted into a theme park in Romania. Shown in color photographs, the points of interest here include Churchill’s War Rooms, the Lascaux Caves, the Chunnel, the Vatican necropolis, and a threestory underground train station in Taiwan that is home to the largest glasswork on Earth. (240/2018)

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)

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This book contains many good ideas for practicing contentment. Do this simple thing every day; wake up, be grateful, be kind and help others. If you do this, your life will be filled with joy.” —The Dalai Lama D30752 THE BUDDHA’S GUIDE TO GRATITUDE The Life-Changing Power of Every Day Mindfulness

Becca Anderson. Mango (pap) 16.95 5.98 “You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy,” Buddha counseled us, more than two millennia ago. As it turns out, Buddha had a lot to say on the subject of gratitude, citing it as one of the four keys to the Gate of Heaven. Why is this? Even in the midst of stress and chaos, Becca Anderson suggests here, we can find plenty to be glad about. Helping you to start your journey towards Zen and gratefulness, Anderson offers some thought-provoking questions, inspiring quotations, and hands-on exercises. (224/2019)

D30554 THE EPIC OF THE BUDDHA His Life and Teachings

Chittadhar Hrdaya. Shambhala (pap) 24.95 6.98 While imprisoned for subversion in the 1940s, Nepal’s Chittadhar Hdaya wrote Sugata Saurabha, an epic poem on the life and teachings of the Buddha. Telling the story of how Siddhartha became the Buddha, Hrdaya populates the tale with very human characters who experience a wide range of emotions, from erotic love to anger, jealousy, heroism, compassion, and goodwill. Translator Todd Lewis also includes supplementary texts that add perspectives on Hrdaya and how he reflects the culture of the Kathmandu Valley’s Newar people. (448/2019)

D30691 HOW TO BE AN EPICUREAN The Ancient Art of Living Well

Catherine Wilson. Basic. 30.00 7.98 For centuries, Epicureanism has had a reputation problem, bringing to mind drunken gluttons or the well-worn adage that we should eat, drink, and be merry. Catherine Wilson shows that Epicureanism isn’t an excuse for having a good time, it is a means to live a good life. Just like the ancient Greeks, we grapple with issues of love, money, family, politics; Wilson encourages us with the Epicurean worldview, a philosophy that promotes reason, respect for the natural world, and reverence for our fellow humans. (304/2019)

D30781 A PILGRIMAGE TO ETERNITY From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

Timothy Egan. Viking. 28.00 6.98 Moved by his mother’s death and his Irish Catholic family’s complicated history with the church, the author of the National Book Award winner The Worst Hard Time decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. Timothy Egan sets out on a thousandmile pilgrimage along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, crossing the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland, and Italy. A highly personal travelogue, Egan’s narrative is also a portrait of the pope who is struggling to hold together the church in a time of crisis. (384/2019)

D30696 POTTERING A Cure for Modern Life

Anna McGovern. Laurence King. 16.99 5.98 “When you potter, you take pleasure in small things,” observes Anna McGovern, celebrating here the joy and practicality of living in the meandering moment, not asking too much of yourself, and yet still getting things done in the gentlest of ways. As this illustrated guide helps you to discover a gentler form of productivity and a more meaningful approach to leisure, it also offers tips to help you lay aside your electronic devices and fully engage with your actual life. (128/2020)

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D23598 THE PSALMS

Crossway (slipcased) 19.99 7.98 Written as songs some three millennia ago, the Psalms are sometimes called “the prayer book of the Bible,” and are revered by Jews and Christians alike for their ecstatic outpourings of hope and reverence. Presented in the English Standard Version, the 150 psalms are printed in individual chapters with red titling for easy reference, and this distinguishedlooking cloth edition comes with a tan ribbon marker and a slipcase. (364/2016)

D30708 SALVE REGINA The Story of Mary

Jacques Duquesne. Flammarion. 40.00 12.98 The Virgin Mary is one of the most revered women in the history of the world, and yet amazingly, there is relatively little known about the details of her life. In this beautifully produced book, biblical and literary references to the Virgin Mother have been woven into a biography and a captivating portrait of the time in which she lived. Paying homage to Mary, the full-page color images here are by such artists as Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Fra Angelico, Van Eyck, Dürer, and Rossetti. (160/2006)

D30690 STILTE The Dutch Art of Quietude

Mirjam van der Vegt. Worthy. 21.00 5.98 We long for moments we can slow down and be still, because our days are often filled with too much noise, anxiety, and confusion. What do you do when your life isn’t what you expected it to be? Offering scriptural encouragement to focus on stillness and silence, Mirjam van der Vegt provides a road map to a grace-filled lifestyle that brings you closer to the heart of yourself, other people, and God. (224/2021)

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D30694 STRANGE RITES New Religions for a Godless World

Tara Isabella Burton. Public Affairs. 28.00 5.98 Fifty-five years have passed since the cover of Time Magazine proclaimed the death of God, and while participation in mainstream religion has indeed plummeted, Americans have never been more spiritually busy. Exploring this peculiarly postmodern Great Awakening, Tara Isabella Burton visits with the technoutopians of Silicon Valley, polyamorous communities, witches from Bushwick, wellness junkies, and social justice activists, proving Americans are not abandoning religion but remixing it. “Burton’s writing is challenging, educational, and electric, combining big-picture thinking with deep-dive immersion.”—Booklist (320/2020)

D30695 THE VANISHING Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets

Janine di Giovanni. Public Affairs. 30.00 7.98 Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity—along the North African Coast and across the Middle East and Arabia—are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. In just the past few decades, Christians have largely fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, and where the fathers of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. Chronicling a time of turbulence, Janine di Giovanni recounts poignant and harrowing stories of life in such locales as Syria, Egypt, and Gaza. (272/2021)

D30679 THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOK The Story of How the Bible Came to Be

Lawrence H. Schiffman & Jerry Pattengale, eds. Museum of the Bible. 24.99 6.98 Who wrote the Bible, and when? How was it decided which texts would be included? And what is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Offering straightforward explanations of how Scripture was written, preserved, and transmitted, Lawrence Schiffman and Jerry Pattengale detail the revolutionary content and lasting relevance of these words, and explore how Gutenberg’s printing press and the King James Bible helped spread Christianity around the world. Discussing the composition of the Bible chronologically, this illustrated history profiles such significant later figures as Jerome, Tischendorf, Luther, Erasmus, Maimonides, Wycliff, and Tyndale. (256/2017)

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D30714 THE PHOTO ARK One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals

Joel Sartore. Harrison Ford, foreword. Douglas H. Chadwick, intro. National Geographic. 35.00 12.98 With a goal of photographing every wild animal in zoos around the world, Joel Sartore has documented more than 6,000 already, and thanks to a partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. Showcasing more than a hundred lush color portraits, this cleverly arranged collection includes a Florida grasshopper sparrow, a greater one-horned rhinoceros, a sloth, a bluespotted charaxes butterfly, and a spectacled owl. With an introductory essay by Douglas Chadwick and an inspiring foreword from Harrison Ford, this book presents a thought-provoking argument for saving all the species of our planet. (400/2017)

D30715 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK WONDERS Celebrating Diversity in the Animal Kingdom

Joel Sartore. National Geographic. 40.00 12.98 Continuing his mission to photograph all the animal species in human care, Joel Sartore presents a new crop of photographs, this time selected to represent the amazing diversity of the world’s animals. He is a gifted portraitist, so expect to develop warm feelings for the Egyptian fruit bat, the Malaysian golden gliding tree frog, and the melancholy-looking Patas monkey. Many of Sartore’s images are cleverly paired, like the catfish and the mouse with the same stripes down their backs, the tarantula and the poison dart frog both cobalt blue, or the tiny lizard and the weighty ox both sporting pointed horns. (400/2021)

D30536 THE COW A Natural & Cultural History

Catrin Rutland. Princeton. 27.95 7.98 We populate the countryside with herds of cows, and their familiar presence ensures that global demands for milk and beef are met. Cows are used to work the fields and they are used to make leather, while they are venerated by some religions and shunned by others. But how much do we really know about them? Offering a wealth of information about cows’ anatomy and behaviors, breed varieties, and place in human culture past and present, this illustrated guide—which includes a directory of 40 breeds—is a tribute to one of the world’s most essential animals. (224/2021)

D30631 MEDITATIONS WITH COWS What I’ve Learned from Daisy, the Dairy Cow Who Changed My Life

Shreve Stockton. TarcherPerigee (pap) 17.00 5.98 Although there are nearly 100 million cattle in the United States, they are often ignored or dismissed. Urging us all to take a more reverential attitude toward these affectionate and intelligent creatures, Shreve Stockton shares captivating stories and her own color photos of ranch life in Wyoming. Despite having no background in farming, Stockton adopted Daisy, and in this intimate yet informative memoir, she recounts how her growing confidence and awareness led to the unexpected realization that this 1200-pound mammal had become family to her. (272/2022)

D23621 BETWEEN LIGHT AND STORM How We Live with Other Species

Esther Woolfson. Granta. 6.98 Beginning with prehistoric human-animal interaction, Esther Woolfson traces how our ideas of the soul, consciousness, and conscience have evolved in relation to the animal kingdom—and the consequences our belief in human superiority has had for the animals. Weaving philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and knowing them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane relationship with the creatures who share our world. (368/2020)

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Michael Brooke has drawn on his knowledge of current science to give a timely summary of research so far and a brilliant global overview of seabird behaviour.” —BBC Wildlife Magazine D30725 FAR FROM LAND The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds

Michael Brooke. Bruce Pearson, illus. Princeton. 29.95 9.98 Evoking the spirit of the earth’s wildest places, seabirds spend large portions of their lives at sea, nesting on remote islands that humans rarely visit. In his pursuit of seabirds, Michael Brooke has traveled all over the world, and now he also uses the latest cutting-edge science to better understand the lives of albatrosses, frigatebirds, cormorants, and other ocean wanderers. Illustrated throughout by Bruce Pearson, this guide answers such questions as: Where do puffins go in the winter? How deep do penguins dive? From how far away can an albatross spot a fishing vessel as it awaits its next meal? (264/2018)

D23251 FLOATING COAST An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Bathsheba Demuth. W.W. Norton. 27.95 6.98 The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had been home to humans long before American and Russian colonization. In this intriguing history— named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews—Bathsheba Demuth presents the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada—a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition is bringing to a finite planet. (416/2019)

D21615 FOREST Walking Among Trees

Matt Collins. Roo Lewis, photos. Pavilion. Import 6.98 We are surrounded by trees, but how well do we know them? Journeying across the continents, Matt Collins explores the heritage of woodlands from around the world and meets those whose lives are inexplicably bound to them. Shown in Roo Lewis’s lovely color photographs, the trees surveyed here include pine, juniper, oak, hornbeam, cherry, beech, birch, chestnut, Douglas-fir, and poplar. Each chapter provides a short introduction to the genus, followed by a journalistic account of its relevance to modern day life (from gin making on Islay Island to a truffle farm in Spain), and concludes with an account of the tree in its native forest. (256/2019)

D23474 JUNGLE How Tropical Forests Shaped the World—and Us

Patrick Roberts. Basic. 32.00 7.98 To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels, picturesque but irrelevant to our lives. Arguing that forests have shaped nearly every aspect of life on earth, archaeologist Patrick Roberts points out that they made the planet habitable, enabled the rise of dinosaurs and mammals, and spread flowering plants. Roberts also posits that humans evolved in jungles—developing agriculture and infrastructure unlike anything found elsewhere—and these places can still teach us how to live more sustainably and equitably today. “[This book is a] bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world.”—Peter Wohlleben (368/2021)

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)

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D23559 WILDERNESS READERS COLLECTION

John Muir, Mark Twain & Henry David Thoreau. Seth Lucas, illus. Gibbs Smith (4 vols, slipcased) 19.98 This thoughtfully curated collection presents a series of great wilderness and nature writing in handsome hardback editions, with covers by Seth Lucas and new introductions. John Muir’s 1901 classic Our National Parks is joined by an updated edition of the 1980 collection Wilderness Essays, in which Muir ranges from Alaska to Yellowstone, from Oregon to the High Sierra. Here too is Mark Twain’s Roughing It (1872), remarking on a long stagecoach journey, a stint of gold and silver mining, and a voyage to Hawaii. The fourth volume is an updated collection of writings by Henry David Thoreau, Natural History Essays. (264, 410, 232, 262/2019)

D22763 RED SUMMER The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village

D23687 VOICES OF THE WILD Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes

Bernie Krause. Yale. 20.00 4.98 Bill Carter. In The Great Animal Orchestra, Scribner (pap) 17.99 5.98 Bernie Krause identified what As millions of salmon race Jane Goodall described as “the toward their annual spawning harmonies of nature … one by grounds in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, one by one, snuffed out by human actions.” Here he Bill Carter learns the ancient, explains how the secrets hidden in the shrinking sonic backbreaking trade of the set net fisherman, one environment of our natural world must be preserved, of the most exhilarating and dangerous jobs in the not only for our scientific understanding, but also for world. Housed in a dilapidated shack with no hot our cultural heritage, and for our physical and spiriwater and boarded-up windows that keep the bears tual welfare. Since 1968, Krause has been traveling at bay, Carter spends his days battling the elements the world, recording the sounds of more than 2,000 on the river, but as he recounts in this vivid memoir, his years in the isolation of Egegik were enlivened by marine and terrestrial habitats; here he offers a manifesto for the appreciation and protection of natural the warmhearted fishermen and their harrowing yet humorous stories. (234/2021) soundscapes, with powerful illustrations and stories. “Krause shares his delight in the sounds of the natural world and makes an impassioned case for the importance of such acoustics.”—Shelf Awareness (184/2015)

D23222 A POLAR AFFAIR Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins

Lloyd Spencer Davis. Pegasus. 29.95 6.98 On Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910 George Murray Levick was the physician, and he passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history. A century later, Lloyd Spencer Davis explains how Levick’s manuscript reveals not only an incredible survival story, but also the jumping-off point for major new insights into the underpinnings of evolutionary biology itself. “Insightful and bawdy.... A timely illumination of a mysterious and vital ecosystem.”—NYTBR (392/2019)

D30699 WORLD OF DOGS A Book for Dog Lovers All Over the Globe

Lara Shannon. Wenjia Tang, illus. Hardie Grant. 12.99 4.98 We couldn’t resist this delightful romp in the dog park from Australian animal welfare advocate Lara Shannon, well known Down Under for her television show Pooches at Play. Her entertaining tour of canine history shows how dogs are seen in cultures all over the world, while visiting with some of our favorite breeds and some you may never have heard of, like Africa’s Abyssinian Sand Terrier and the New Guinea Singing Dog. Even dedicated dog lovers may find a few surprises here, and Wenjia Tang provides charming illustrations throughout, with cartoon pups that are full of personality. (144/2021)

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D30539 BIRD LOVE The Family Life of Birds

Wenfei Tong. Princeton. 29.95 14.98 From courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks, birds have an amazing array of strategies to make sure that they pass on their genes. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this eye-opening look at the avian world shows that fairy-wrens have helpers at the nest who forgo their own reproduction to assist the breeding pair, and wattled jacana males do all the childcare, while cuckoos dump their eggs in the nests of others to raise. In her intriguing text, Wenfei Tong shares a host of little-known facts about birds we think we know. (192 /2020)

D22886 NESTS, EGGS, BIRDS An Illustrated Aviary

Kelsey Oseid. Ten Speed. 16.99 5.98 Did you know that the tailorbird sews leaves together to make its nest? Or that hummingbird eggs are the size of jellybeans? Birds are some of the world’s most beautiful and interesting creatures, and their nests and eggs are no exception, displaying a stunning diversity of shapes, sizes, functions, and materials. Also the creator of What We See in the Stars, Kelsey Oseid explores the fascinating ins and outs of where and how dozens of avian species—robins, crows, owls, macaws, penguins—make their homes and lay their eggs. Oseid’s folksy paintings appear on nearly every page, and the book includes a glossary and suggestions for bird watchers. (144/2020)

D30540 WHAT IS A BIRD? An Exploration of Anatomy, Physiology, Behavior, and Ecology

Tony D. Williams, ed. Princeton. 35.00 14.98 The variety of bird species is truly astounding, from the tiny bee hummingbird to the towering ostrich, making birds one of the most diverse and successful animal groups on the planet. Taking you inside their extraordinary world, this overview explores all aspects of these remarkable creatures, providing an awe-inspiring look at their physiology, evolution, and behaviors, including migration and navigation. Featuring hundreds of color illustrations, this guide also assesses the challenges they face, and notes how humans have used them for inspiration, companionship, and food. (368 /2020)

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US6412 WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BIRD From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing — What Birds Are Doing, and Why

David Allen Sibley. Knopf. 35.00 “Can birds smell?” “Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?” “Do robins ‘hear’ worms?” David Allen Sibley has spent a lifetime studying and drawing birds, and in this browsable, gorgeously illustrated book he explains why our backyard birds do the things they do. Among more than 300 illustrations are 87 large paintings with 96 species of familiar birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—but you will also find easily observable birds like the Atlantic puffin. In nontechnical language Sibley vividly explores the lives of birds, how they have adapted to changes in their world, and how they are not so very different from us. (240/2020)

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)

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D30556 A BRIEF WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE A Pocket-Sized Tour

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael Strauss & J. Richard Gott. Princeton (pap) 14.95 5.98 How did the universe begin? Is there a multiverse? And what are the prospects of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Propelling you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space, astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott offer a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. In conversational language, complex subjects are unpacked here, including Tyson’s thrilling explanation of how to understand that there are 10 sextillion stars in the observable universe. (248/2021)

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

Don Kulick. Algonquin (pap) 16.95 4.98 As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. Over the course of 30 years, as he returned again and again to study a language spoken by less than 100 natives, he found himself inexorably drawn into the lives and world of the Gapuners. In this thoughtful account, Kulick takes us inside the village as he came 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)

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

D30654 FORGETTING The Benefits of Not Remembering

Scott A. Small. Crown. 27.00 6.98 Memory loss is a sign of mental decline—or is it? Not necessarily, Alzheimer’s researcher Scott Small suggests here, revealing that forgetting can be a required function for our minds to work best. Forgetting benefits our cognitive and creative abilities, emotional well-being, and even our personal and societal health. From studies of bonobos in the wild to visits with painter Jasper Johns and decision-making expert Daniel Kahneman, Small looks across disciplines to put these new scientific findings into context. (240/2021)

D30537 GAMES FOR YOUR MIND The History and Future of Logic Puzzles

Jason Rosenhouse. Princeton. 29.95 9.98 First introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late 19th century, logic puzzles have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. While exploring the history and future of logic puzzles, Jason Rosenhouse also enables you to test your skill against a variety of puzzles yourself, including the “Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever,” metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the logic puzzles in detective stories. (352 /2020)

D23635 FALLING FELINES & FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

Gregory J. Gbur. Yale. 26.00 5.98 How do cats land on their feet? In this playful and eyeChristopher G. De Pree & opening history, physicist Sarah Scoles. (and cat parent) Gregory HarperCollins. 24.99 6.98 Gbur explores how Modern humans have lost the attempts to understand the deep connection to the cosmos that was once central cat-righting reflex have provided crucial insights to our daily lives, helping us to determine our percepinto puzzles in mathematics, geophysics, neuroscition of time and place. Offering a concise yet in-depth ence, and human space exploration. The result is look at the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars, this an engaging tumble through physics, physiology, guide teaches us to observe and understand the elements photography, and robotics to uncover, through comprising the celestial sphere—deepening our lives and scientific debate, the secret of the acrobatic perforhelping us become more informed, engaged, and mindmance known as cat-turning, the cat flip, and the ful every day. (211/2022) cat twist. (352/2019) s dalu Dae ks Boo

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D30706 HOW TO BE HUMAN The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence

New Scientist. Graham Lawton & Jeremy Webb, text. Jennifer Daniel, illus. Nicholas Brealey (pap) 14.95 5.98 Did you know that half your DNA isn’t human? That somebody, somewhere has the same face as you? Or that most of your memories are fiction? We belong to a unique, complex, often misunderstood species, so here the writers and editors of New Scientist help us to understand what it means to be human, both as an individual and a society. Learn how various parts of your body don’t actually belong to you, and why you yawn, blush, and cry. Discover why 90 percent of laughter has nothing to do with humor, how you can read another person’s mind, and what will happen to your own mind after you die. (224/2020)

D23238 HALF LIVES The Unlikely History of Radium

Lucy Jane Santos. Pegasus. 28.95 5.98 Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Telling the curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item, Lucy Jane Santos reveals that it was used as a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, and a glow-in-the-dark dance costume. In the 20th century, radium became a supposed cure-all, and Santos explains how medical practitioners and business people devised ingenious ways of persuading customers to welcome radioactive wares into their homes. (336/2021)

D23487 HOW THINGS WORK The Inner Life of Everyday Machines

Theodore Gray. Nick Mann, photos. Black Dog & Leventhal. 29.99 9.98 An incorrigible tinkerer with boundless curiosity, the author of The Elements brings the perfect combination of know-how, humor, and daring-do to every project or demonstration, be it scientific or mechanical. Looking back on an era when objects were physical rather than virtual, Theodore Gray explores the mechanical underpinnings of dozens of types of machines and mechanisms, offering succinct explanations and color photos of locks, radios, the cotton gin, the wristwatch, a sewing machine, the industrial loom, and those landline phones that were attached to the wall by an annoying cord. (256/2019)

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D30656 HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE FROM SCRATCH In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang

Harry Cliff. Doubleday. 30.00 7.98 What is matter really made of ? How did it escape annihilation in the heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe? A researcher on the Large Hadron Collider, Harry Cliff takes us to his extraordinary workplace beneath the FrenchSwiss border, then visits CERN’s “Antimatter Factory.” Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding—and misunderstandings—of the world, offering a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on. (400/2021)

D23216 HOW TO DIE IN SPACE A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena

Paul M. Sutter. Pegasus (pap) 17.95 5.98 You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? You want to know if there are aliens out there, or how to travel through a wormhole? Well stop, Paul Sutter cautions, because all that will probably kill you. From mundane comets in our solar backyard to exotic remnants of the Big Bang, from dying stars to young galaxies, the universe may be beautiful, but it’s treacherous. In this entertaining guide to astrophysics, Sutter details how particles, forces, and fields interplay to create the drama in the heavens above us. (336/2021)

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D30693 LIFE AS WE MADE IT How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined — and Redefined — Nature

Beth Shapiro. Basic. 30.00 7.98 When the 2020 Nobel Prize went to the inventors of the gene editing tool CRISPR, it underlined a newfound ability to alter nature. But as biologist Beth Shapiro explains, humans have been reshaping the natural world since before the last ice age, from breeding dogs to engineering bacteria that pumps out insulin. Indeed, she argues, resetting the course of species evolution, including our own, is an essential aspect of being human. The question then, says Shapiro, is not “should we meddle with nature,” but rather, “how can we meddle better?” “A detailed exploration of some of the most influential technologies of our time … [and] a tantalizing glimpse of what might be in store in the future.” —New Scientist (352/2021)

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)

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)

D30541 TALES OF IMPOSSIBILITY The 2,000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity

David S. Richeson. Princeton. 29.95 12.98 First posed by the ancient Greeks, there are compass and straightedge problems—squaring the circle, trisecting an angle, doubling the cube—that have served as muses for mathematicians for more than two millennia. In this engaging and refreshingly opinionated survey, David Richeson investigates how Euclid, Archimedes, Descartes, Newton, Gauss, and Leonardo da Vinci labored to understand these challenges and how some of their major mathematical discoveries emerged from their explorations. Here too are answers to such questions as: why did the Indiana state legislature pass a bill setting an incorrect value for pi? (456 /2019)

D30711 MEDICAL SYMPTOMS: A VISUAL GUIDE The Easy Way to Identify Medical Problems

Dina Kaufman, et al., contribs. DK (pap) 19.95 7.98 Whether you have a symptom you’ve been ignoring for a while, a new one you’ve just noticed, or a sudden pain after a fall, this visual diagnostic guide helps you check out any health problem and suggests what might be wrong and what you should do. Quickly identify suspected conditions or injuries through detailed diagrams and illustrations. Once you’ve narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to expanded descriptions of the condition—potentially life-threatening situations or ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged. (256/2018)

D23213 ODYSSEY Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage that Changed the World

Tom Chaffin. Pegasus. 28.95 6.98 Mere happenstance placed Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle, but for the 22 year old scientist, it changed the course of his entire life. Drawing on many sources to tell a colorful tale, the author of Revolutionary Brothers reveals young Darwin in all his complexities: the brashness that came from his privileged background, the Faustian bargain he made with Argentina’s dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, his abhorrence of slavery, his surprising aptitude as a marksman, and an ambition to carve himself a place amongst his era’s celebrated travelers and intellectual giants. (336/2022)

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D30707 THE PATIENT’S CHECKLIST 10 Simple Hospital Checklists to Keep You Safe, Sane, and Organized

Elizabeth Bailey. Hachette (pap) 15.99 5.98 Whether you’re addressing the chaos of a pandemic or preparing for scheduled surgery, having checklists prepared to guide you through a hospital visit can often mean the difference between comfort and pain, personal and distant care—and even life or death. You need to know how to take charge of your own healthcare, suggests Elizabeth Bailey, who shows you how to do just that with a series of checklists to better manage, monitor, and participate in your own care, including: Before You Go, What to Bring, Master Medication List, and Discharge Plan. (192/2020)

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D23234 SUPERCHARGE YOUR BRAIN How to Maintain a Healthy Brain Throughout Your Life

James Goodwin. Pegasus. 28.95 6.98 The brain is our most vital and complex organ, coordinating our actions, thoughts, and interactions with the world around us. Yet most of us know precious little about how our brains actually work, or what we can do to optimize their performance. Cognitive decline is the biggest long-term health worry for many of us, and so here James Goodwin explains how simple strategies for exercise, diet, social life, and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and helping you to stay sharp across your life. (384/2022)

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D23462 THINKING BETTER The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life

Marcus Du Sautoy. Basic. 30.00 7.98 No matter what you’ve been told, success isn’t about hard work—it’s about shortcuts, which allow us to solve one problem quickly so that we can tackle an even bigger one. Celebrating how math helps us to do more with less, Marcus du Sautoy explores how diagramming has revolutionized therapy, why calculus is the greatest shortcut ever invented, whether you must really practice for ten thousand hours to become a concert violinist, and why shortcuts give us an advantage over even the most powerful AI. Throughout, we meet artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs who use mathematical shortcuts to change the world. (336/2021)

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Oliver Condy. Cassell. 20.00 7.98 Whether you have been struck down with a case of the common cold, are suffering from burnout, or reeling from a humiliation, there is a D30724 piece of classical music DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS to restore you. Feeling weepy? Try Elgar’s Cello The Fourth Musketeer Concerto. Exhausted? There’s Beethoven’s boisterous Ralph Hancock & Letitia Fairbanks. Symphony no. 7. If you’re dealing with cabin fever, Lyons. 29.95 7.98 crank up the volume on Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Few people have influenced Hollywood history more In this alphabetical compendium of maladies, Oliver than Douglas Fairbanks, a vibrant actor who thrived Condy offers more than 100 rather eclectic recomin the silent film era. In 1919, he co-founded United mendations, as well as the stories behind the pieces Artists with his soon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, and composers selected. (192/2021) Charles Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, beginning a second career as a visionary producer. Written by his niece, D30739 Letitia Fairbanks, this updated version of the original TV NOIR 1953 biography has been expanded by the family with Dark Drama archival materials and never-before-seen photographs. on the (296/2019) Small Screen Allen Glover. D30702 Abrams. 40.00 6.98 LOVE IS ALL AROUND Film noir—movAnd Other Lessons ies shot with dark We’ve Learned scenes and deep from The Mary shadows—is a Tyler Moore Show powerful dramatic Paula Bernstein. style when paired Running Press. 20.00 5.98 with detective ficWhen the character of Mary tion from writers Richards walked into the like Chandler and WJM News Room in the fall Hammett, but it turns out gumshoes, gangsters, and of 1970, one of the most beloved shows in television femme fatales also play well on the small screen. With history was born. The Mary Tyler Moore Show won 29 dozens of rare photos, Allen Glover’s history begins Emmys over its 7-year run, and independently-minded with the pioneering NBC adaptation of Cornell Mary has proved to be an enduring inspiration to Woolrich’s The Black Angel, then surveys TV classics women. Offering trivia and history, Paula Bernstein like Dragnet, M Squad, and 77 Sunset Strip. Glover also also shares the lessons we’ve gleaned by watching, shows the genre in transition through the 1960s and including: Make the Most of a Small Space, Get 70s, with shows like The Fugitive, Kolchak, and Harry O. Along with Everyone at Work, and You Can Have the (256/2019) Town—Take It! (192/2020)

D30549 SONDHEIM: LYRICS

Stephen Sondheim. Peter Gethers & Russell Perreault, eds. Everyman’s. 14.95 5.98 Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim made his Broadway debut with West Side Story in 1957 at the age of 27, and he has redefined musical theater with his groundbreaking work, combining words and music in ways that are challenging, moving, witty, and exhilarating. This anthology includes a selection of lyrics from across Sondheim’s career, drawn from shows including West Side Story, Gypsy, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and more. (224/2020)

D30552 YEAR OF THE MONKEY

Patti Smith. Knopf. 24.95 7.98 Joining memoirs like M Train and the National Book Award winner Just Kids, Patti Smith takes us through a year of wandering, loss, and portents for the future: 2016, Year of the Monkey. Following New Year’s concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco, she tramps across her inner and outer landscapes, aimless but heeding signs, taking unexpected turns. Smith bids farewell to friend and poet Sandy Pearlman, joins Sam Shepard as he assembles his final book, and witnesses the foreboding shift in American politics. Her prose is elegiac, elegant, even humorous, illuminated by her Polaroid photos throughout. (192/2019)

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D20667 AGE OF EMPIRES Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Zhixin Sun. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 65.00 14.98 Between 221 BC and 200 AD, China’s Qin and Han empires united under a common emperor, creating a stable foundation for Chinese art, culture, and national identity that has lasted over two millennia. Examining this era in detail, these 150 works include ceramics, armor, sculpture, and jewelry, plus soldiers from the renowned terracotta army of Qin Shihuang, China’s first emperor. In the text, Metropolitan Museum curator Zhixin Sun addresses the sweeping societal changes, and traces how they manifested themselves in the arts. (268/2017)

D30701 ART UNFOLDED A History Of Art In Four Colours

Ben Street. Ilex (pap) 12.99 4.98 Blue, red, green, gold: These four colors tell the history of art in a way that few other details can. From the pigments that hold them—wildly expensive Ultramarine, or dangerously toxic Emerald Green—to the varied and changing meanings applied to them, these colors grant us access to fascinating stories, both of individual works of art and the world in which they were created. Unpacking this language, this overview contains fold-outs of works by such artists as Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Watteau, Rousseau, Monet, Van Gogh, Klimt, Kahlo, Rothko, and Klein. (128/2018)

D30709 AUTHOR The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan

Beowulf Sheehan. Black Dog & Leventhal. 40.00 9.98 One of the foremost literary portrait photographers of recent decades, Beowulf Sheehan has a gift for images that are honest yet dignified, natural but memorable. With a foreword by Salman Rushdie, this collection contains dozens of photographs of such figures as Cormac McCarthy, Roxane Gay, Tom Wolfe, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Louis Erdrich, Jesmyn Ward, Neil Gaiman, Joan Didion, J.K. Rowling, Paul Auster, and Walter Isaacson, among many others. “Beowulf Sheehan is a poet, working with light.” —George Saunders (256/2018)

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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)

Louise Fili 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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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)

D23314 PAUL CÉZANNE

Janet Bingham. Arcturus. 14.99 5.98 In the words of Matisse and Picasso, Paul Cézanne was “the father of us all,” and his approach to color and perspective paved the way for many of modern art’s breakthroughs. Charting Cézanne’s journey as an artist, this book explores the places where he lived and worked, his personal life and friendships, and the artistic influences that helped to shape his remarkable vision of the world, while the color reproductions include Mont SainteVictoire, The Large Bathers, Man Smoking a Pipe, and Chateau Noir. (96/2019)

D30704 NOTRE DAME DE PARIS A Celebration of the Cathedral

D23315 PIERREAUGUSTE RENOIR

Thomas Stevens. Arcturus. Kathy Borrus. 14.99 5.98 Black Dog & Leventhal. Among the 25.00 6.98 foremost A marvel of Gothic Impressionist architecture, Notre Dame artists, PierreCathedral was completed in Auguste Renoir 1345, and for almost seven was known for centuries it has served as his scenes of a house of worship and refuge. In this tribute, Kathy middle-class Borrus outlines the basic characteristics of cathedrals, leisure. But Renoir’s primary interest lay indoors, and chronicles the history of this landmark building, in depictions of sensuous female nudes and intiwhich has hosted royal weddings, coronations, and mate domestic scenes, painted in a warm, bright funerals, while surviving wars, revolutions, and the dev- palette. While reproducing such works as Dance at astating 2019 fire. The dozens of color photographs the Moulin de la Galette, Bather Arranging Her Hair, here show the Notre Dame’s grand façade and ethereal and Luncheon of the Boating Party, this account of interiors, as well as some of the important artifacts Renoir’s career follows him as he incorporated clashoused there. (128/2019) sical elements into his style. (96/2019)

D30677 LOST ANATOMIES The Evolution of the Human Form

John Gurche. Abrams. 40.00 14.98 Bringing the traditional techniques of figure drawing and anatomical art to the portrayal of our hominin ancestors, paleoartist John Gurche has created a visual record of the evolving human form that feels alive in a way no scientific illustration could match. With essays putting the images into perspective, this collection of Gurche’s drawings encompasses Australopithecus; archaic Homo sapiens, including Homo erectus; and derived Homo sapiens, including Neanderthals and other recent ancestors. Profound and sometimes haunting, these drawings forge an aesthetic connection to the hominins that preceded us, capturing their humanity. (208/2019)

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D30712 PINK BOOK An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships

Kaye Blegvad. Chronicle. 19.95 7.98 What do we think of when we think pink? In this richly illustrated homage to the color, Kaye Blegvad explores its significance across history and cultures, from gender connotations to product marketing, symbols and iconography, and more. Through engaging mini essays, interactive exercises, object studies, and interviews, Blegvad shares a vibrant miscellany of pink facts and pink occurrences, from Elvis’s cars to cotton candy to the origins of phrases like “tickled pink,” “pink slip,” and “rose-tinted glasses.” (200/2019)

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 MoholyNagy, foreword. 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 innovative minds. This thought-provoking book presents close-up pictures of the very 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)

D30716 A TEACUP COLLECTION Paintings of Porcelain Treasures

Kathleen Morris. Molly Hatch, illus. Chronicle. 16.95 6.98 One of the finest teacup collections in the world, the 300-piece archive of the Clark Art Institute dates back to the 18th century and represents designs from Europe and China. With exclusive access to this largely unviewed collection, Molly Hatch pored over the details of each cup to create this visual treat. Including dozens of Hatch’s charming paintings of the cups alongside their specifications and information on their origins, this book also contains Kathleen Morris’s reflections on the allure of collecting porcelain. (120/2015)

D30548 VAN GOGH AND THE ARTISTS HE LOVED

Steven Naifeh. Random House. 40.00 14.98 Today Vincent van Gogh seems the most original painter of his era, but his revolutionary style was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists. Including more than 200 illustrations, this eyeopening book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Jackson Pollock presents samples of Van Gogh’s works in comparison to paintings by Rembrandt, Millet, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Monet, helping us to see anew such works as Portrait of Joseph Roulin, Almond Blossom, Poppy Field, and The Potato Eaters. (448/2021)

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D30622 PADDINGTON

Michael Bond. R.W. Alley, illus. HarperCollins. 17.99 5.98 Over 60 years ago, a small bear left Peru with nothing but a suitcase, several jars of marmalade, and a label around his neck that read, “Please look after this bear. Thank you.” When he arrived at London’s busy Paddington Station, he was discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who welcomed this lost bear into their family—and their lives would never be the same. Adapted as a story book for readers 4 to 8, Michael Bond’s recap of Paddington’s earliest adventures—including the memorable scene with his first bath—features R.W. Alley’s expressive ink illustrations. (32/2014)

D22159 LITTLE MISS AUSTEN: PRIDE & PREJUDICE

D22984 THIS PLANE

Paul Collicutt. FSG (board book) Jennifer Adams. 7.99 3.98 Alison Oliver, illus. Based on 20 real-life Gibbs Smith (board airplanes, this board book) 12.99 3.98 book for prereaders Stroll through 1 describes their essenEnglish village, tial qualities (“This plane is made of wood and canmeet 2 rich gentlevas. / This plane is made of metal.”) and compares men, and see 4 their differences (“This plane has propellers. / This marriage proposals plane has jet engines.”). (30/2016) to 5 Bennet sisters in this clever counting book for our youngest Jane Austen fans, with Alison Oliver’s charmingly wideeyed illustrations. (22/2019)

A renowned interpreter of children’s classics, honored with a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal among numerous other awards, Charles Santore here pays tribute to the charming Lake District villages and countryside that Beatrix Potter immortalized in her miniature storybooks.

D22081 THE CLASSIC TALE OF MR. JEREMY FISHER Beatrix Potter. Charles Santore, illus. Applesauce (board book)

D22080 THE CLASSIC TALE OF TWO BAD MICE

D22082 THE CLASSIC TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES

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D30643 A CURIOUS MENAGERIE Of Herds, Flocks, Leaps, Gaggles, Scurries, and More!

Carin Berger. Greenwillow. 17.99 4.98 From a flamboyance of flamingos to a mischief of mice, Carin Berger introduces readers up to 7 to 60 unusual and engaging collective nouns, from an ambush of tigers to a loveliness of ladybugs. As a ringmaster and a monkey tour the animal kingdom, they discover that there is such a thing as a parade of penguins, a scurry of squirrels, and a tower of giraffes. Making brilliant use of old newspapers, catalogs, buttons, and paint, Berger creates charming images of these chummy creatures. (40/2019)

D20634 BUILD! A KNIGHT’S CASTLE Paper Toy Archaeology

Annalie Seaman. Storey (pap) 5.98 Exploring the medieval world of castles and armored knights, this book and model set for readers 7 to 10 also describes how archaeologists piece together the past to discover what life was really like for those who lived then. Archaeologist Annalie Seaman explains how to interpret clues from medieval documents, paintings, maps, and ground surveys, and then apply that knowledge to excavate the site of a besieged castle and reconstruct both the castle and the battle scene. Preprinted and die-cut paper pieces can be assembled into a realistic castle model, complete with miniature knights—see how the pieces of wall fit together, what’s located inside the courtyard, and how a siege weapon like a trebuchet works. (80/2015)

D20874 FIRST 100 WORDS ACTIVITY GAME

Briarpatch/University Games. 7.98 Based on Roger Priddy’s popular First 100 Words books, this activity game from Briarpatch lets players 2 and up explore vocabulary visually and verbally, with no reading required. Place the colorful photo cards around the room. Roll one of the soft dice, either numbers or colors, then find that number of cards or the cards with the same color. Kids identify the pictures and words on the cards as they collect them, while being introduced to simple counting and social skills. Grownups can get in on the act by asking children to find objects and giving hints. The set includes 50 two-sided picture cards and two soft dice.

D20912 MEDIEVAL CREATURES STICKER BOOK Create Your Own Artworks!

Sabine Tauber. Prestel (pap) 4.98 Enter a delightful world of real and fantastical animals, dragons and other medieval creatures, as well as knights, kings, and queens! Drawn from medieval art, the more than 200 stickers of extraordinary medieval heroes and creatures included in this book are sure to appeal to children and encourage imaginative creative play. In addition to stickers, the book also includes pages for painting and drawing, where artists can give their imagination free rein. (16/2016)

D30653 CORAL

Molly Idle. Little, Brown. 17.99 4.98 On a sunlit reef teeming with sea life, mermaids Coral, Filly, and Manta each lovingly tend the plants and animals around them. When Coral comes upon an empty hollow at the heart of the reef and tries to keep it as her very own, Filly and Manta are banished. All that grows in the wake of her anger is regret, and in this tale for readers 4 to 7, Coral must find a way to make amends—but she can’t do it alone. The artist behind the Caldecott Honor book Flora and the Flamingo creates an undersea world of luminous pastel tints. (40/2020)

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D30620 THE BOXCAR CHILDREN FAVORITES COLLECTION 30 Volumes, plus a DVD, Activity Books, and More

Gertrude Chandler Warner, et al. Albert Whitman & Co (pap, slipcased) 34.98 Four runaway orphans find shelter at last in an old railway car—but their adventures are just beginning, in these classic illustrated chapter books for kids 7 to 10. Created by schoolteacher Gertrude Warner to appeal even to reluctant readers or those whose first language isn’t English, the Boxcar Children series follows Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden and their dog Watch as they find a home and family, and then begin pursuing and solving local mysteries. This slipcased library is an ideal place to start, with Warner’s original 19 stories and 11 favorites by later authors, plus the animated film The Boxcar Children on DVD, an activity book, stickers, a journal, a poster, and a flexible pocket magnifying lens. (2019)

D30627 I WANT TO BE SOMEBODY NEW!

Robert Lopshire. Random House. 3.98 When Spot grows tired of doing tricks in the circus, he decides to turn into another animal. But what kind? An elephant? An elephant is too big. A giraffe? A giraffe is too tall. How about a mouse? Can Spot’s friends help him see that the very best thing to be is himself ? A sequel to the 1960 classic, Put Me in the Zoo, Robert Lopshire’s rhymed text and bright cartoon illustrations of the zany Spot are likely to entertain a new generation of readers and listeners up to 7. (48/1986)

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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)

D22934 MAKE A WISH, HENRY BEAR

Liam Francis Walsh. Roaring Brook. 17.99 4.98 Roger Henry Bear has very Hargreaves. unusual parents. They Grosset & encourage him to stay up Dunlap. 3.98 all night, eat chocolate cake at every meal, and get into “On the trouble with his teacher. It other side of sounds like fun—but what the world, will Henry Bear do when where the sun shines hotter than here, and where he grows tired of indulging in childish things? New Yorker the trees are a hundred feet tall, there is a country cartoonist Liam Francis Walsh gives us a droll tale about called Happyland.” When Mr. Happy meets Mr. making wishes with unanticipated consequences. Though Miserable—who looks just like him—he will work hard to share the joy with his decidedly unhappy new it’s intended for readers and listeners up to 7, don’t be acquaintance. First published in 1971, this installment surprised if older kids gravitate to Walsh’s gorgeously drawn bear world, based on the narrow winding streets in British artist Roger Hargreaves’s Mr. Men series and tile roofs of Ticino, Switzerland, where he now lives. has lost none of its charm for readers 4 to 8 (and more than a few of us adults). (40/2019) (32/2021)

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D30744 THE WIZARD OF OZ COLLECTION

L. Frank Baum & Ruth Plumly Thompson. Andrew Davis, illus. Sweet Cherry (pap, 15 vols, slipcased) 119.85 49.98 We know the 1939 film by heart, and quite a few of us have read L. Frank Baum’s first installment, The Wizard of Oz. Baum also wrote 13 further adventures for readers 9 and up—including The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Magic of Oz—all of which are included here with new cover designs by British illustrator Andrew Davis, plus Ruth Plumly Thompson’s 1920 novel, The Royal Book of Oz, with which she continued the series. The set is enclosed in a sturdy box, and on the back is a winsome depiction of the Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City looming in the distance. (2019)

D30634 LITTLE KID, BIG CITY!: LONDON Pick Your Own Path Through London!

Beth Beckman. Holly Maher, illus. Quirk. 19.99 4.98 If you were heading to London, would D30743 you hop on the NO READING ALLOWED Tube to visit The Worst Read-Aloud Book Ever Buckingham Palace, find a tasty lunch on Brick Lane, Raj Haldar & Chris Carpenter. Bryce Gladfelter, illus. Sourcebooks Inc. 17.99 4.98 or pass the time with Big Ben? Armchair travelers ages 4 to 8 can create an itinerary, choose which Is it “The mummy prepared farro for dinner,” or “The mummy prepared pharaoh for dinner?” In this follow-up places to visit at the end of every page, and follow to P Is for Pterodactyl, readers 5 to 8 can learn about hom- along with an adventurous girl and her moms as they explore London. Holly Maher’s illustrations abound onyms and homophones as they relish the wordplay of in familiar details, and the book concludes with addi“fowl feat/foul feet,” “four mermaids/former maids,” tional info on such sites as the Thames, Westminster and “The New Delhi clerk runs a pretty sari store” vs. Abbey, the Globe Theatre, Tate Modern, Kings “The new deli clerk runs a pretty sorry store.” Clearly in Cross Station, and Stonehenge. (88/2021) lock step with the authors, Bryce Gladfelter contributes zany ink illustrations of animals, dinosaurs, and strange creatures inhabiting a punny world. (48/2020) D22957

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)

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)

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James Charlton & Sally Cook. Ross MacDonald, illus. Chronicle. 14.95 5.98 Baseball has yielded a plethora of bizarre expressions from “dead red” to “banjo hitter” to “worm burner.” We all know terms like “ace,” “Bronx cheer,” and “taking one for the team.” While this alphabetical guide contains these classics, it will also help with the more arcane lingo. Soon, you’ll be amazing fans with such phrases as “dying quail,” “round tripper,” and “buzz the tower.” Veteran illustrator Ross MacDonald contributes the cartoon drawings, taking obvious glee in his literal interpretations of “bonehead play,” “grand salami,” and “rubber arm.” (126/2014)

D30624 THE GOLDEN COMPASS ILLUSTRATED EDITION His Dark Materials, Book I

Philip Pullman. Chris Wormell, illus. Knopf. 37.99 7.98 Winning Britain’s Carnegie Medal in 1995, Philip Pullman’s first His Dark Materials novel is a modern classic. It is presented here in a dramatic illustrated edition for readers 10 and up and also adults who grew up with the series and want to explore it again. Follow the adventures of Lyra Belacqua and her friends in a world where every human has a personal daemon (an animal manifestation of their soul) and powerful forces are fighting over the control of Dust. (304/2021)

Sally Cook & Ross MacDonald. Flatiron. 15.99 5.98 A “pancake” is an acceptable maneuver in football and a “naked bootleg” can be executed effectively, but no receiver should be guilty of “alligator arms.” Football has a lingo all its own, and here the team behind How to Speak Baseball decodes it for you. There are bios of some of the game’s greats as well as definitions of “coffin corner,” “flea-flicker,” and “icing the kicker,” with Ross MacDonald interpreting many of these colorful terms literally in his ink drawings. (128/2016)

D30676 HOW TO SPEAK SOCCER From Assist to Woodwork: An Illustrated Guide to Pitch-Perfect Jargon

Sally Cook & Ross MacDonald. Flatiron. 16.99 5.98 How do you execute a “Cruyff kick?” What makes a “false nine” so confusing? And why would you not want to be called a “bottler?” Whether you’re a newcomer to soccer or a longtime fan, this informative guide explains more than 150 terms you should know. Throughout, Ross MacDonald’s hilarious cartoons illustrate jargon like “rocket” and “rainbow kick,” while sidebars reveal how certain aspects of the sport came to be, from penalty cards to the soccer ball itself. (128/2017)