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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.

What's New at Arty Bees Courtenay Place

History! The History sections have been fed again - be careful, they may look cute and friendly but they can be dangerous when provoked. Some yummy tidbits include We Die Alone - A World War 2 Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth, FitzRoy - The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast by John and Mary Gribbin andThe Devil's Disciples - The Lives and Times of Hitler's Inner Circle by Anthony Read.

Martial Arts
Tai Chi - The Way to a Healthy Life by Grandmaster (chuckle chuckle) Gary Khor
The Way of the Spiritual Warrior - Soft Style Martial Arts for Body, Mind & Spirit by Paul Brecher
Live Longer, Love Longer - The Power of Chi by Geoff Pike
The Martial Arts - Swordsmanship, Kendo, Aikido, Judo, Karate by Michael Random
The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts - A Step by Step Practical guide by Fay Boodman with photography by Mike James

On a related topic we've had some Buddhism in this week to even out all that unpleasant violence including Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart by His Holiness the Dalai Llama, Introduction to Buddhism by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Path to Enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism by Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden and Meditations on the Path to Enlightenment by Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden.

Chitty Chitty Misc Boom

• The Complete Idiots Guide to Amazing Sex by Sari Locker
• Synchro Destiny - Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles by Deepak Chopra
• The Ancient Wisdom of the Celts by Murry Hope
• Ecstatic Body Postures - An Alternate Reality Workbook by Belinda Gore
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
• Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart - Thirty True Things You Need To Know by Gordon Livingston
• Fighting Globesity - A Practical Guide to Personal Health and Global Sustainability by Phillip and Jackie Mills
• Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know - The Autobiography by Ranulph Fiennes (I met him once, he is totally swoonworthy. I'm sure if you look up charisma in the dictionary there's just a picture of him - Jess).

Fiction candy - just in time for Halloween - hey maybe we should be giving books to kids who knock at the door instead of rubbish food that will rot their teeth!
Anyway the Book Candy this week includes lots of Richard Brautigan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paulo Cohelo and Cormac McCarthy.
Or if you've read all the authors who are hot right now why not wrap your chompers around some older fiction? We have many paperbacks of Georgette Heyer, Morris West, Greg Bear, Anne McCaffery, Stephen King and the always tasty Terry Pratchett.

We also have nearly every title by Elmore Leonard, but if you prefer your crime a little more real we have a murder* of books on that too.

• Who Killed Marilyn? And Did the Kennedys Know? by Tony Sciacca,
• Lust Killer by Ann Rule (writing as Andy Stack)
• A Cast of Killers by Sidney Kirkpatrick
• I Have Lived in the Monster - On the Trial of the World's deadliest Serial Killers by Robert K Ressler (The FBI agent behind the REAL Silence of the Lambs & the X-files cases) & Tom Shachtman
• The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crimes- The Best Collection of Unsolved Murder and Mystery Cases Ever Published edited by Roger Wilkes
• Mafia Women by Claire Longrigg
• Unsolved Murders and Mysteries - A Chilling  Collection of True Life Stories edited by John Canning

*if it's a pod of whales and a murder of crows then surely this applys to these books also...

Shiny new New Zealand this week:

• Mr & Mrs U** - The Story of a High Country Marriage in Early Canterbury by Audrey Adams
• Johnny Jones - A Colonial Saga by Diana Harris
• Torpedo! Kiwis at Sea in WW2 by Matthew Wright (Editor)   
• Biografi by Lloyd Jones
• Falling for Science - Asking the Big Questions by Bernard Beckett
• Murray Ball's The Ballad of Footrot Flats
• Colin McCahon - A Question of Faith by Bloem & Brown
• Natural Wonders of New Zealand by Trevern & Anna Dawes
• Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy - Ideas, Institutions and Policy Communities by Shaun Goldfinch
• Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) compiled by W M Hamilton
• The Spirit of Mountaineering Volume 1 - The Classic Story and Pictorial Record of Jack Adamson, First New Zealand Mountain Guide, Photographer and Pioneer by Mary Hobbs
• Rakiura - A History Of Stewart Island New Zealand by Basil Howard
• A Lifetime at School by Nelson Maclean
• A Boaties' Guide to Fiordland by Mana Cruising Club
• E H McCormick's Eric Lee-Johnson
• Trees for the New Zealand Countryside - A Planter's Guide by John & Bunny Mortimer
• Home - A Colonial's Adventure by Alan Mulgan
• Grace Neill - The Story of a Noble Woman by J O C Neill
• Coromandel by Ian Robinson
• In Search of New Zealand's Scientific Heritage by Royal Society of New Zealand / Hoare & Bell (Editors)
• A Profession in Transition - Issues in Nursing in New Zealand Over Two Decades 1961-1981 by E Beatrice Salmon (Edited by Carroll Pat & Fieldhouse Alice & Shaw Sally)
• Olga Sansom's The Stewart Islanders
• Kinds of Peace - Maori People After The Wars, 1870-85 by Keith Sinclair
• Policing the River District - The First 100 Years of the Wanganui Police 1886 - 1986 by Charles E Spicer (Ltd edition signed)
• Life on the Edge - New Zealand's Natural Hazards and Disasters by Te Ara
  
  

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

Terry Pratchett Discworld novels in abundence in second hand hardback including some extremely rare 1st editions of the earlier titles.
This hardly ever happens, so if you have gaps in your collection- now's the time to get them!

And while we are on the subject the Illustrated Wee Free Men is now instore - no drooling allowed!

Shiny new release New Zealand poetry including A Good Handful - Great New Zealand Poems about Sex edited by Stu Bagby, Marked Men by David Lyndon Brown, Little Rock by Rosetta Allan, Laughing Mirror by Douglas Wright

New Zealand fiction just as pretty and new is also in - Check out:

• The Gorse Blooms Pale by Dan Davin
• Armagonnageddon by Emma Koch
• The Totam Hole by Paul Shannon
• Coming up Roses by Sarah Long
• Trendy but Casual by Paula Morris
• Game without End by Howard Joseph
• Tomorrow all will be Beautiful by Brigid Lowry
• A Secret Mind by Kaye Kelly
• Acts of Love by Susan Pearce
• The Shadow World by P C Laird
• Get on the Waka - Best Recent Maori Fiction Edited by Witi Ihimaera
• Miriam's Talisman by Elenor Gill
• Playing Friends by Marilyn Duckworth
• Drybread by Owen Marshall
• On an Island, with Consequences Dire by Kelly Ana Morley
• Cutting Caleb Keys by Glenn Bowden

Other New Zealand titles this week include:

• Aggie Grey - A Samoan Saga by Fay Alailima
• Queer in Aotearoa New Zealand by edited by Alice & Star
• Asclepius - Poet Triumphant - The Life and Writings of RAK Mason (1905-1971)
• Making Waves - Captain Jock McGregor - Shipmaster, Wanganui Pioneer by Felicity Campbell
• Welcome to the Campus of Struggle - Dispatches from the International Academic Front 1999 - 2004 by David Cohen
• Dew & Fitzgerald's Challenging Science - Issues for New Zealand Society in the 21st Century
• You'll Be A Man if You Play Rugby - Sport & Construction of Gender by Graeme W Ferguson
• Conon Fraser's With Captain Cook in New Zealand (Adventures in Geography Series)
• 1878 - 1978 Nelson Central School by Maurice Gee
• The Seven Lives of Lady Barker by Betty Gilderdale
• Jeanine Graham's Frederick Weld
• Howden-Chapman, Philipa & Carroll, Penelope (eds) - Housing & Health - Research, Policy & Innovation
• Howland & Birch's Lotto, Long-drops & Lolly Scrambles - The Extraordinary Anthropology of Middle New Zealand
• Life & Work of Samuel Marsden by J B Marsden, edited by J Drummond
• The Fortex Story by Sarah Martin
• Marlborough - A Provincial History by McIntosh, Redman & Allen et al
• Gavin McLean's 100 Historic Places in New Zealand
• Gone for Good by Shona McRae
• F W G Miller's Gold in the River
• Early Days in Franklin - A Centennial Volume by Nona Morris
• The Evolution of a City - The Story of the Growth of the City and Suburbs of Christchurch, The Capital of Canterbury in the Years From 1850 to 1903 by J P Morrison
• Himalayan Holiday - An Account of the New Zealand Himalayan Expedition 1953 by Athol Roberts & Co
• Lawrence Rogers' Te Wiremu - A Biography of Henry Williams
• Spoonley, Dupuis & De Bruin - Work & Working in Twenty-First Century New Zealand
• Essence by Krystine Tomaszyk
• Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand by Gwenda Turner
• L J Wild's The Life & Times of Sir James Wilson of Bulls
• John Russell Wilford's - Southern Cross and Evening Star - Reflections and Recollections
• In His Own Words - A Tribute to Cardinal Thomas Williams
• John Hobbs 1800 - 1883 - Wesleyan Missionary to the Ngapuhi Tribe of Northern New Zealand by T Williment
• Harrison M Wright's New Zealand, 1769-1840 - Early Years of Western Contact
  

Loads of Kids picture books have come in including three boxes of stuff for wee babys and early reading levels right up till .. well.. older. To name a few:

• The Christopher Robin Verse Book by A A Milne
• Beetles and Bugs Nature Fact File by Dr Jen Green
• My First Jumbo Book of NUMBERS - Learning Fun for Little Ones! - With Sturdy Lift Up Flaps by Diaz and Gerth
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• UG and Man by Raymond Briggs
• Nature Kids- 123 of Australian Wildlife by Steve Parrish
• Pohutukawa by Sandra Morris
• The Tin Can Man - A Phonics Based Story for Pre-K to grade 1 by Marcia Leonard
• Focus on: Shapes, Space and Measure Age 8-9 Published by Egmont World
• Dr Seuss's Book of Bedtime Stories
• My First Golden Book of ABC's
• The Fables of Aesop Illustrated by Maggie Downer
• A Worm's Eye View of Recycling Rubbish by Lenka Fields
• Bears on Wheels and On the Moon by Stan & Jan Berenstain

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
You'd think timetravelling humans would have better dress sense than safari suits, I mean come on guys that's like sooooo 1960

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