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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 Arty Bees over the past seven days or so.

News at Arty Bees Books

Well, the end is in sight upstairs in terms of final sorting of sections.

Those of you who have made it as far as the Social Sciences this week will have noticed Jessica almost completely penned in by four foot high piles of Health, Family, Psychology and Business books - suffice to say that by the time she's finished she'll deserve a giant chocolate fish, and our lovely customers will actually be able to find things up there...

On the downstairs front - David has been busy sorting out all the New Zealand Literature duplicates from when we moved in and combined the two shops collections together (I foresee more giant chocolate fish awards coming up - we should really start buying them in bulk...) This soul destroying task has been just completed in time as we have huge gaps on the shelves now and desperately need to restock - so if you've been foiled in finding the New Zealand literature you want over the last few weeks we should be able to find those for you in the next few days.

What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees

In the History and Geography department...

• Tom Till's Utah - Magnificent Wilderness
• The Lower Mississippi Valley by Elenore Morgan with photos by Ed Kerr
• Those Who Came Before - Southwestern Archaeology in the National Park System by Robert H. Lister and Florence C. Lister
• Legendary Towns of the Old West by Bowen and Radeka
• A Distant Mirror - The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
• Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation - A Tribute to the Members of the WW2 Generation
• Unnatural Murder - Poison at the Court of James I by Anne Somerset
• Soldiers without Borders - Beyond the SAS - A Global Network of Brothers-in-Arms by Ian McPhedran
• The Bushmen of Southern Africa - Slaughter of the Innocent by Sandy Gall
• The National Archives of the United States by Herman J. Viola
• Behind Iranian Lines - Travels through Revolutionary Iran and the Persian Past by John Simpson
• Chinese Footbinding - The History of a Curious Erotic Custom by Howard S. Levy
• Medieval Travellers - The Rich and Restless by Margaret Wade Labarge
• Death in the Mountains - The True Story of a Tuscan Murder by Lisa Clifford
• Mozambique Mysteries by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
• Freedom From War by Donald Bennett (Bennett of the Pathfinders published 1945)

Random topics and strange bed-fellows this week include Pirates, Biography and Photography

• Nietzsche - A Philosophical Biography by Rüdiger Safranski
• Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
• If a Pirate I Must Be - The True Story of Bartholomew Robers, King of the Caribbean by Richard Sanders
• Fidel and Che - A Revolutionary Friendship by Simon Reid-Henry
• Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman - Photos and wisdom from fifty sages of the modern world
• Cats - 99 Lives - Cats in History, Legend and Literature by Howard Loxton

Civil War and the Old South

• Architecture of the Old South by Mills Lane (Wow , super yummy!)
• American Colonial - Puritan Simplicity to Georgian Grace by Wendell Garrett
• Historic Architecture in Mississippi by Mary Wallace Crocker
• James Longstreet The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy edited by DiNardo and Nofi
• Brothers in Arms - The lives and experience of the men who fought the American Civil War in their own words by William C. Davis
• The Blue and The Grey by Thomas B. Allen and photography by Sam Abell
• Civil War Soldiers - Their Expectations and their Experiences by Reid Mitchell
• Civil War on the Western Border 1854 - 1865 by Jay Monaghan
• Nathan Bedford Forrest - A Biography by Jack Hurst
• Cavalier and Yankee - The Old South and American National Character by William R. Taylor
• Gray Ghost - The Life of Colonel John Singleton Mosby by James A. Ramage
• Spies & Spymasters of the Civil War by Donald E. Markle
• The Army of Robert E. Lee by Philip Katcher
• General Lee - His Campaigns in Virginia 1861 - 1865 by Walter H. Taylor
• Covered with Glory - The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg by Rod Gragg
• Best Photos of the Civil War by Hirst Dillon Milhollen and James Ralph Johnson

Science, Stimulation and Self-Help

• Climate Change - What you can do about it - At Work, At Home, At School by Holper and Torok
• The Carnivorous Plants by Francis Ernest Lloyd
• Starting from Seed - How to Gather, Germinate, Nurture, Transplant and Harvest by Jack Kramer
• Fat Wars - The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry by Ellen Ruppel Shell
• Radical Evolution - The Promise and Peril of Enhancing our Minds, Our Bodies - and what it means to be Human by Joel Garreau
• Espresso - Culture and Cuisine by Karl Petzke and Sara Slavin
• An Essay on Brewing, Vintage and Distillation, together with selected Remedies for Hangover Melancholia or How to Make Booze by John F. Adams
• Between the Monster and the Saint - Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway
• Climate Code Red - The Case for Emergency Action by Spratt and Sutton
• Feng Shui for you and your Cat by Alison Daniels
• Back by popular demand - Choosing and Keeping Chickens by Chris Graham
• Sham - Self-Help and Actualization Movement - How the Gurus of the Self-Help Movement make us Helpless by Steve Salerno

Arts, Fashion and Music - And we're also in the middle of processing a beautiful collection of cutting edge Quilting books and classic Knitting and Crochetting books, so keep watching this space...

• David O. Selznick's Hollywood - Huge coffee table book by Ronald Haver
• Italian Painting - Artists and their Masterpieces throughout the ages
• Modern Mexican Art by Schmeckebier
• Hall's Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art  (1987 revised edition)
• The Pre- Raphaelites by Timothy Hilton
• Puss in Books - A Collection of Great Cat Quotations edited by Maria Polushkin Robbins
• Practical Calligraphy by Nash and Fleuss, plus oodles of other Calligraphy books arrived this week
• Encyclopedia of Needlework (D.M.C. Library) New Edition, revised and enlarged by Therese de Dillmont circa 1900 - a classic title which is now very hard to track down.
• A Concise History of Costume by James Laver in the Thames and Hudson World of Art Library
• The Complete Footwear Dictionary by William A Rossi
• Fully-Fashioned Hose Manufacture by S. B. Bradley
• The Illustrated Delta of Venus by Anais Nin with photos by Bob Carlos Clarke

And at the risk of being mercilessly ridiculed by the other Bees I'm gonna include a quick mention of a lovely collection of assorted titles of Pam Ayes poetry books here that came in this week, if only because they go so well with the next two music books....

• Victoria Wood - Lucky Bag - The Victoria Wood Song Book
• The Sound of Edna - Dame Edna's Family Songbook
• The Complete Songs of Kiss
• Hendrix - Radio One - Guitar Tab and Notation from the Jimi Hendrix Experience live-to-air album Radio One by Bella Godiva Music Inc
• Dino - Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches (about Dean Martin)
• Pet Shop Boys versus America by Chris Heath
• The Oxford Companion to Music edited by Alison Latham

Some of the New Zealand books in this week.

• Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement by H. T. Puchas, 1909 edition
• Information Relative to New Zealand Compiled for the Use of Colonists by J. Ward, a Capper facsimile
• The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson in 1st New Zealand edition
• Cancer & Milan Brych Cure or Con by Milan Brych
• Willie Apiata VC - The Reluctant Hero by Willie Apiata with Paul Little
• Hawke's Bay - Before and After - The great Earthquake of 1931 - An Historical Record - 50th Anniversary issue
• Legends of the Land - Living stories of Aotearoa as Told by Ten Tribal Elders Photos by Ralph Talmont
• Live to Paint and Paint to Live - Rita Angus by Vita Cochran and Jill Trevelyan
• Our Favourite Poems - New Zealanders Choose their Best-Loved Poems
• Staunch - Inside the Gangs by Bill Payne - This is an extremely scarce title to find now.
• Wellington Album by William Main
• A Concise Encyclopedia of Maori Myth and Legend by Margaret Orbell
• Sing to Me Dreamer by Shonagh Koea
• New Zealand - Looking for the Local - Architecture & the New Zealand Modern by Clark & Walker
• Back Down The Crump - Photographs by Barry Crump & Colin Hogg
• Christchurch Unseen - Unfashionable Photographs of Christchurch in the 80's or Travels of a Black Dog - Photographs by Robert McGavin
• Mana by Kristin Zambucka
• Historic Trentham 1914-1917 - The Story of a New Zealand Military Training Camp, and Some Account of the Daily Round of the Troops Within Its Bounds by Will Lawson,
• Wellington Album by William Main
• Journey Towards World Peace - A History of the New Zealand Peace Council - Half a Century in the Cause of Peace 1948-1998 by New Zealand Peace Council - John Urlich
• Horowhenua County & its People - A Centennial History by Anthony Dreaver
• The Botanic Garden Wellington - A New Zealand History 1840-1987 by Winsome Shepherd & Walter Cook
• The Early History of Wellington College - From 1867 to 1883 With a register of the pupils of the College by Frank M Leckie

Food, glorious food! It almost makes you want to break out in song!

• The River Cafe Cookbook by Gray and Rogers
• Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations - Around the World on an empty stomach
• DK Herb and Spice - The Cook's Essential Guide
• The Accidental Vegetarian - Delicious Food without Meat by Simon Rimmer
• Sophie Grigson's Ingredients Book - Foods, Flavours, Recipes
• Two Fat Ladies - Gastronomique Adventures with Motorbike and Sidecar, and
• Two Fat Ladies Ride again, both by Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Tying together the large pile of assorted Cat books and Knitting books that have come in this week.. I think this almost counts as Slash Fiction?

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