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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.

News at Arty Bees Books

Lily, Arty Bees' newest staff member joined the hive last week.

Although her job description is "Webmistress' PA" her duties mostly include eating and sleeping. She puts in a little overtime at the computer too - hence the slight sticky drooly mess on the keyboard.

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

In the exciting and fun filled category of Fictional Goodies this week we are proud to announce that the General Fiction Duplicates were sorted out so the shelves are really full!

And (because they have worked super hard) the Bees managed to do the same with the Horror Section. . . "get your Stephen King here - Lovely Fresh Stephen King"

And as an added bonus we have a small but exciting sale of our Excess General Fiction Duplicates - "paperback only a dollar each - that's right! Only One Dollar each!" Get in quick for some great bargains.

Other fictional goodies (not on sale but still great bargains) include...

• The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories – edited by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
• Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson by Hunter S. Thompson
• Darkmans by by Nicola Barker
• Vertigo and The Emigrants – both by W. G. Sebald
• Omnibus of H.G. Wells containing The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The First Men in the Moon and The War of the Worlds
• Lots of Chick Lit
• And heaps of these assorted authors have also arrived - Albert Camus, Nora Roberts, Charline Harris, Chris Mamby, plus "Manly Fiction" like Harlan Coban, Clive Cussler and Steve Berry

And for the kids this week (big kids and little kids) we've had The Virago Book of Fairy Tales and The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales edited by Corinna Sargood, Emily Rodda books, and lovely copies of C S Lewis's Narnia series.

Some iconic New Zealand Art books have surfaced this week including Jonathan White’s New Zealand with text by John Hall-Jones, the magnificent Kiwis by Ray Harris Ching and Peter McIntyre’s Pacific.
Other New Zealand books that have come in that are worth a peek...

• Pahiatua – A Pictorial History 1881 – 1981 by Byron J. Bentley
• Ahmed Zaoui - Refugee Status Appeals Authority New Zealand Refugee Appeal No. 74540, 1 August 2003
• Te Puoho’s Last Raid by Atholl Anderson
• Kairuri - The Measurer of Land – The Life of the 19th Century Surveyor Pictured in his Art and Writings by Nola Easdale
• Noodle Pillows – A Journey Through Vietnamese Food and Culture by Peta Mathias
• Delux boxed edition of The Adventures of Mr. Marigold by Michael Tobias

Music, Comedy and Film books this week:

• My Life, My Way by Cliff Richards
• Cilla Black – What’s It All About? by Cilla Black
• And It’s Goodnight From Him – The Autobiography of The Two Ronnies by Ronnie Corbett
• High Hopes – My Autobiography by Ronnie Corbett
• That’s Another Story – Julie Walters, The Autobiography by Julie Walters
• Pieces of Intelligence – The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld compiled by Hart Seely
• When Giants Walked the Earth – a biography of Led Zeppelin by Mick Wall
• Saucerful of Secrets – The Pink Floyd Odyssey by Nicholas Schaffner
• My Life by Edith Piaf
• Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull
• The Big Book of Hell – A Cartoon Book by Matt Groening
• Charlie Chaplin by Maurice Bessy with 1090 illustrations
• Boris Godounov by Alexander Pushkin with illustrations by Boris Zvorykin
• Extraordinary Records – 500 rare and valuable coloured vinyls - by Taschen [new]

Plus a nice stack of popular Sheet Music including Sting, Oasis, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin and Robbie Williams, along with a smattering of Gilbert and Sullivan and Andrew Lloyd Weber.

History, Biography and Travel books this week:

• Witchfinders – A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill
• Murder or Mystery – Mystery, Piracy and Adventure in the Spice Islands by Pamela Stephenson
• Sultans in Splendour – The Last Years of the Ottoman World by Philip Mansel
• Landscape & Memory by Simon Schama
• The Story of Britain – A People’s History by Roy Strong
• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind – A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter
• The Ascent of Money – a Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
• The Roaring Nineties – Why we’re paying the Price for the Greediest Decade in History by Joseph Stiglitz
• Penguin Special – the Life and Times of Allen Lane by Jeremy Lewis
• Nelson – A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
• Ernesto Che Guevara – Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
• Dinner with Mugabe – The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who became a Tyrant by Heidi Holland
• Long Walk to Freedom – the Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
• Geisha of Gion – The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki (with Randle Brown)

Food and Fashion and fashionable food no less...

• Sweet as – Easy to make Desserts and Baked Treats by Alessandra Zecchini
• Pick Preserve Serve – Enjoying Local and Home-Grown Produce year-round by Chris Fortune
• A Dictionary of English Costume 900 – 1900 by C. Willett and Phillis Cunnington, and Charles Beard
• Knickers – An Intimate Appraisal by Rosemary Hawthorne
• Bras – A Private View by Rosemary Hawthrone
• The Meaning of Sunglasses – A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable by Hadley Freeman
• Hunger for Freedom – The Story of Food in the Life of Nelson Mandela by Anna Trapido
• Wheat-free Worry-free – The Art of Happy, Healthy, Gluten-free Living by Danna Korn

Science and Nature

• E = MC 2 - A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
• Critical Mass – How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
• The Stuff of Thought – Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• The Zoological Society of London 1826-1976 and Beyond edited by Professor Lord Zuckerman
• Crap at the Environment – A Year in the Life of One Man Trying to Save the Planet by Mark Watson
• Poor Story – An Insider Uncovers how Globalisation & Good Intentions have Failed the World’s Poor by Giles Bolton
• Keeping Silkworms – All you need to know by Monnie Fenner
• The Devils of Loudun – A Study in the Psychology of Power, Politics and Mystical Religion in the France of Cardinal Richelieu by Aldous Huxley
• The Character of Cats – The Origins, Intelligence, Behaviour and Strategems of Felis Silvestris Catus by Stephen Budiansky
• Bright Paradise – Victorian Scientific Travellers – Botanists, Scientists and Collectors by Peter Raby
• Anatomica – The Complete Home Medical Reference published by Bateman

Gardening, Sports and Religion books. Ok so this may be an eclectic bunch of topics to stick together but I think it makes sense...

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• 365 Tao – Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-Dao
• DK Pocket Encyclopedia - Organic Gardening by Geoff Hamilton
• Japanese Gardens – Right Angle and Natural Form - by Gunter Nitschke
• Essay Collection – Faith, Christianity and the Church by C. S. Lewis
• The Phar Lap Story by Michael Wilkinson
• Lance Armstrong - Images of a Champion by Lance Armstrong, photography by Graham Watson

Poetry, Language, Essays and Media titles.

• Better Than Sex by Hunter S. Thompson
• Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors by Bill Bryson
• The Unfolding of Language – An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher
• The Penguin Book of English Verse edited by Paul Keegan
• Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
• Words and Pictures – Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow
• Early Children’s Books – A Collector’s Guide by Eric Quayle

Military and Shipping books this week

• Supreme Courage – Heroic Stories from 150 Years of The Victoria Cross by General Sir Peter de la Billiere
• Pirates by John Matthews
• Between Silk and Cyanide – A Codemaker’s War 1941-1945 by Leo Marks
• The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi edited by Robert S. C. Gordon
• A Time to Die – The Kursk Disaster by Robert Moore
• A Writer at War – Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 edited and translated by Antony Beevor & Luba Vindogradova
• In Command of History – Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War by David Reynolds
• Pegasus Bridge – D-Day – The Daring British Airborne Raid by Stephen E. Ambrose
• The Mystery of Olga Chekhova – The True Story of a Family Torn Apart by Revolution & War by Antony Beevor

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Mmmmmm looks not unlike our last family reunion.

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