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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 Arty Bees over the past seven days or so.

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

• The Border Trilogy (3 in 1) by Cormac McCarthy
• Six Suspects – All Deaths are not Equal by Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A
• The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini
• Eldorado- A Story of the Scarlet Pimpernel By Baroness Orczy
• The Fairytales of Herman Hesse – Translated and with an Introduction by Jack Zipes
• The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

• How Starbucks Saved my Life – The Riches to Rags Story of a Man who had it all … by Michael Gill
• Love Letters – Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941-1968 edited by Judith Adamson
• Benjamin Franklyn – An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo – The First Scientist by Michael White
• Hell’s Angel – The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club by Ralph `Sonny’ Barger’
• Me Cheeta- The Autobiography - Written by the monkey himself!.. somehow?
• At the Centre of the Storm – My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
• Making Waves – The Autobiography By David Hasselhoff
• A Monkey Among Crocodiles – The Disastrous Life of Mrs. Georgina Weldon … a Victorian Eccentric by Brian Thompson
• The Same Man – George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War – by David Lebedoff
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. from 1659-1669 with Memoir, Chandos Classic edition edited by Lord Braybrooke
• Betjeman By A.N Wilson

History and Travel this week...

• Vlad the Impaler – In Search of the Real Dracula by M. J. Trow
• Touching my Father’s Soul – A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
• The Fourth of July and the Founding of America by Peter de Bolla
• In Search of Shakespeare and Conquistadors, both by Michael Wood, accompanying the brilliant BBC series
• Scottish Exodus – Travels among a Worldwide Clan by James Hunter
• Black Diamonds – The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty – The Fitzwilliams of Wentworth House by Catherine Bailey
• Scandal – A Scurrilous History of Gossip by Roger Wilkes
• The Spice Route – A History by John Keay
• We were Taught to Plant Corn Not to Kill – Secrets behind the Silence of the Mayan People by Tax’a Leon and Douglas London

This weeks collection of War and Militaria books:

• Making Friends with Hitler – Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War by Ian Kershaw
• The Great War – Giant Australian WW1 classic by Les Carlyon
• Wirtschaftswunder – Germany after the War 1952-1967 Taschen book with photos by Josef Heinrich Darchinger
• Absolute War – Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy
• The Living Unknown Soldier – A True Story of Grief and the Great War by Jean-Yves Le Naour
• Enemy Combatant – A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantanamo and Back by Moazzam Begg
• Berlin – The Downfall 1945, Stalingrad , and Crete – The Battle and the Resistance, all by Antony Beevor
• My Father’s Keeper – The Children of Nazi Leaders – An Intimate History of Damage and Denial by Stephan Lebert
• The Story of World War Two by Donald L. Miller
• Soldiers Without Borders – Beyond the SAS By Ian McPhedran
• Dunkirk – The Men they left Behind by Sean Longden
• Dambusters – A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
• The Real Heroes of Telemark – The True Story of the Secret Mission to stop Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Ray Mears

Art books include some yummy titles this week like The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist by Francis Ames-Lewis, Flights of Imagination – Recent works of Sculpture by Cecilia Z. Miguez, Valerio Mariani’s giant tome Michelangelo The Painter published by Abrams and Peggy Guggenheim- Mistress of Modernism By Mary Dearborn.

But the really exciting news for art fiends this week is that the last of the Illuminated Manuscripts have finally been dealt with - Check out the listing down below.

Science and Nature books.

• Vanilla – The Cultural History of the World’s Favorite Flavour and Fragrance by Patricia Rain
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures By Vincent Lam
• Mucking In – The Gardens & The Gardeners by Jim Mora & Tony Murrell
• Common Shock - Witnessing Violence Every Day – How we are Harmed, How we can Heal
• by Kaethe Weingarten

Food and Cooking

• Delia’s How to Cook – Books One and Two by Delia Smith
• Rick Stein’s Food Heroes – Another Helping
• The Devil’s Cup – Coffee, the Driving Force in History by Stewart Lee Allen
• Waiter Rant – Behind the Scenes of Eating Out by A. Waiter

Philosophy, Religion and other Ponderings

• Flirting with Disaster – Why Accidents are Rarely Accidental by Marc Gerstein with Michael Ellsberg
• Conversations about the End of Time by Umberto Eco and Stephen Jay Gould
• Gathered Gems. a Series of Popular Sermons Together With the Life of This Famous Preacher by T. De Witt Talmage (pub. c1889)
• Daniel Quorm, and His Religious Notions - by Mark Guy Pearse (pub. 1876)
• The Meaning of Tingo and other Extraordinary words from Around the World by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• The Year of Living Biblically – One Man’s humble Quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible by A. J. Jacobs
• Universal Father – A Life of Pope John Paul II by Garry O’Connor
• Silent Legacy – The unseen ways great thinkers have shaped our culture by Paul Henderson & John Fox

Transport books this week include goodies like the Encyclopedia of Chevrolet Trucks by Don Bunn and The American Railroad by Joe Welsh, but the real goodies are the multitude of Shipping Books (and occasional Aviation Book) that are going to start dribbling out over the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned - the first few boxes will head out into the windows and shelves next week and we'll have online listings to match.

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Is that a giant syringe or are you happy to see me?

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Illuminated Manuscripts out this week and next....

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