The Vile Village and Travels With a Donkey

What's New at Arty Bees Books.
This is the spot to check out every week, as we bring you the latest on the fabulous, weird, interesting, intriguing, and wonderful books, big or small, mostly square-ish - although not always - that have come into the Arty Bees shops over the past seven days or so.

The Annual Arty Bees’ HARDBACK FICTION SALE is currently on.

Bargains galore!! - see below.
Almost all Hardback Fiction at one third off normal prices, and half off purchases of 3 books or more (this sale spans across both of our branches).

This is from the following sections: General Fiction, Modern Literature, Detective, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Old Novels, Horror and Historical Fiction. Our hardbacks or trade paperbacks (soft-cover but hardcover size) are generally priced from $16 - $22, so if you do the math on that you can get novels for as little as $8. It’s a great opportunity to collect some nice editions of your favourite books or try out some new ones

What's New at Arty Bees Courtenay Place

Some Children's titles that are always in high demand that have come in this week include: Jacqueline Wilson (Hardbacks) in abundance - Girls in love, Secrets, Vicky Angel, The Cat Mummy, Girls in Tears, Double Decker (Double Act & Bad Girls), Lola Rose, The Dare Game, Girls out Late, Sleep-Overs.
Lemony Snicket and his Series of Unfortunate Events.. but wait, not just the first 3 Volumes (which are always hanging around) but some of the later ones! The Miserable Mill (#4), The Austere Academy (#5), The Ersatz Elevator (#6), The Vile Village (#7), The Carnivorous Carnival (#9) AND Learn about the man behind the titles Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorised Autobiography and we also have a handful of shiny Diana Wynne-Jones' hanging around, get in quick!

Mental Health and Personal Psychology / Self Help books

Darkness Visible - A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
The Flock - The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Joan Frances Casey with Lynn Wilson
The Disassociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook by Deborah Bray Haddock
An Unquiet Mind- A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison (with recommendations from more than one staff member!)
If You Had Controlling Parents - How to make Peace with your Past and Take Your Place in the World by Dan Neuharth
Letting go of Shame - Understanding how Shame Affects your Life by Ronald Potter-Efron and Patricia Potter-Efron
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover - Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette
The 12 Steps for Adult Children published by Friends in Recovery

Diabetic Cookbooks are definitely a popular topic these days with a huge influx of Type 2 diabetes in New Zealand - so for healthy and responsible cooking for yourself or your loved ones check some of these out. Cookbook for Diabetics by Gaynor Maddox, Favorite All Time Recipes Series: Diabetic Desserts - Cakes, Pies, Cookies and More!, Diabetic Cooking - Low Fat Recipes for Everyday Eating, and Diabetic Recipes with Bold Flavor

Fiction
Huge pile of Margaret Atwood, all the classics: Bluebeard's Egg, Oryx and Crake, Blind Assassin, Dancing Girls, Edible Woman, Bodily Harm, Life Before Man, Lady Oracle. Or if you were after somebody starting with At.. but she isn't your flavour how about Kate Atkinson?? Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories or Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson is a stunning edition of a classic book about idyllic country living.

Butterflies are at Courtenay Place this week including The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Colour . Over 2000 species reproduced life-size, The Dictionary of Butterflies and Moths in Colour and Beningfield’s Butterflies, featuring beautiful plates of Gordon Beningfield’s paintings.

Random Fun and Frivolity this week starts with The F Word edited by Jesse Sheidlower (it's a history of the 'f' word..)

Big Deal - One Year as a Professional Poker Player by Anthony Holden
Genetically Engineered Foods - Are They Safe? You Decide. by Laura Ticciati & Robin Ticciati, Ph.D
The Natural Cure to Baldness - Guaranteed to Halt Hair Loss by D Tubb.... and if that doesn't work ...
The Baldness Cure - The Unique Regrowth Programme that Really Works by Andy Bryant
Himalaya by Michael Pailn
Remember, remember the 8th of November. That’s how the rhyme goes, right? We have in The Hollow Men – A Study in the Politics of Deception by Nicky Hager.
Bushwhacked - Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
The Secret Architecture of our Nation's Capital - The Masons and the Building of Washington D.C
Secrets of Shaolin Temple Boxing by Robert W. Smith
Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee.
What are you doing in your summer holidays? Here’s an idea – Vineyard Visits: 150 of New Zealand’s best. Now you just have to toss a coin for the sober driver.
Going Nuclear – Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times by Geoffrey Nunberg. Voted Best Language Book of 2004 by just about everybody!
Ethnicity, Race and Crime – Perspectives Across Time and Place by Darnell F. Hawkins.
The Business of Crime – Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States by Humbert S. Nelli. Horse’s heads, sleeping with the fishes, concrete shoes and all that stuff.

We have in Boat building and Repairing with Fiberglass by Melvin D.C. Willis. And once you’ve done that, there’s After 50,000 Miles by Hal Roth. The author says: “I have written this book for people who want to cross oceans, who hope to make extended blue-water passages and to live aboard small sailing vessels for long periods”.

And lastly, all of our Taschen Basic Art and Poster Portfolio series have been stocked up again. Wonderful, exquisitely produced books at the very affordable price of $25 to $30.

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

Classic Kids stories have had a boost this week with a lovely collection of Graham Oakley's The Chuch Mice series and Rupert Annuals - we have a very nice run (almost complete) from 1956 to 1975 in varying states of loved-ness.

Random madness at Manners Street this week includes The Dayuma Story - all about an Ecuadorian Indian girl who "escaped from - and returned to - the world's most murderous tribe." (cue exciting pre 'PC' psuedo-anthropology story here)

Life 101 - An Illustrated Guide by Geoffrey Day-Lewis
Shedding Life - Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions by Miroslav Holub
Beneath The Underdog by Charles Mingus
In the Time of Madness - Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos by Richard Lloyd Parry
The Spanish Armadas by Winston Graham
The Rainbow Warrior Affair by Shears & Gidley
The Art of Sensual Female Dominance - A Guide for Women by Claudia Varrin
Apartheid - A History by Brian Lapping
London at War 1939 - 1945 by Philip Ziegler

We have had loads, gazillions even, of new Science books in over the last 2 weeks with a lot of fascinating and unusual science biographies and science history as well as the more common general science theory and popular science including Theories of Scientific Method - The Renaissance Through the Nineteenth Century by Blake, Ducasse & Madden and The Day that Lightning Chased the Housewife and Other Mysteries of Science edited by Julia Leigh & David Savold

New Zealand books this week include the beautiful to the earth moving with some of Warren Jacobs beautiful photographic books like Landscapes of New Zealand and Ans Westra's Washday at the Pa to R H Clark's New Zealand From the Road - Landforms of the North Island and Field Guide to New Zealand Geology by Jocelyn Thornton.

Big Country of the South Island - North of the Rangitata by Peter Newton
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King (both in hardback and paperback which is nearly unheard of for these to stick around so be in quick)
Our own bugman - Ruud Kleinpaste's Scratching for a Living
Duperrey's Visit to New Zealand 1824 edited by Andrew Sharp
Brian Sutton-Smith's The Games of New Zealand Children - Folklore Studies #12 University of California
Some classic Sheila Natusch's An Island Called Home - Rakiura, New Zealand, Roy Traill of Stewart Island - His Kith & Kin and The Roaring Forties - Glimpses of Foveaux Strait 1840-1850 - 46 Deg - 48 Deg South
And another classic on Stewart Island In the Grip of an Island - Early Stewart Island History by Olga Sansom
Aunt Daisy's Cookery Book of 1,150 Selected Recipes - No 5 Limited Edition by Maude Basham aka Aunt Daisy
Hassell's Short History of the Port of Timaru 1852-1955
Claudia Bell's Inventing New Zealand - Everyday Myths of Pakeha Identity
Granite and Marble - A Guide to Building Stones in New Zealand by Bruce W Hayward
Te Aho Tapu - The Sacred Thread Traditional Maori Weaving by Mick Pendergrast & Brian Brake
Women of the Burning Bush - The Report of a Survey of Women Ministers in the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand after 25 Years of Ordination by Vivienne Adair
By Love Serve - The Story of the Order of Deaconesses of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand by J D Salmon
City of Dunedin - A Century of Civic Enterprise by K C McDonald
Simply Living - A Gatherers' Guide to New Zealand's Fields, Forests and Shore by Gwen Skinner
Cricket Companions - The Story of the 1949 New Zealand Tour by Alan Mitchell
D J Cameron's Caribbean Crusade - New Zealand Cricketers in the West Indies
Harold Wellman - A Man Who Moved New Zealand by Simon Nathan

History, Music and Arts Biographies are storming out to the shelves like the Mongol hoards - check out Kingsley Amis, Henry the VIII th, Chopin, C S Lewis, Robert Schuman, Hannah Arendt, and some great titles on early Womens History and the Suffrage Movement including Louise Colet.

Standout Fiction in this week you can't afford to miss...

The Outing by Dylan Thomas
Fun and naughtiness with Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Brian Froud and Terry Jones
Collected Plays 1918 - 1923 by Bertolt Brecht
The Kite Runner by Hosseni
Beautiful old and cherished antiquarian editions of titles like Mrs Radcliffs The Romance of the Forest, and R L Stevenson's The Merry Men and Travels With a Donkey
Millions (ok we're exaggerating here a little) of GOR novels
Plus lots of Aldous Huxley including Time Must Have a Stop and Brave New World Revisited and Ian McEwan which never lasts long including Enduring Love.

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Does He / She? That is a very good question.
Not as good a question as "Does He / She play Canasta" though? Because we are always looking for new victims *ahem* i mean players for Canasta... as long as he's not a card counter, we only need one of those in the family!

It's Our Annual Arty Bees Storewide

HARDBACK FICTION SALE

For a limited time only!

Hardback Fiction from the following selected sections is reduced to an astounding 1/3 off the normal prices and an amazing 1/2 off purchases of 3 or more sale books.

Modern Literature
General Fiction
Detective Fiction
Horror Novels
Sci Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Historical Novels
& Old Novels

Sorry - New books, and Non Fiction are not included

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