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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.
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What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees
Fabulous Fictional Frolics for this Friday...
- Between the Assassi Nations by Aravind Adigia, Man Booker Prize Winning author of The White Tiger
- Falling and Turning Back the Sun by Colin Thubron
- Zeno of Bruges by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Rosalind Miles' Tristan and Isolde trilogy
- And for the kiddies (big and small), we have lots of Sweet Valley University, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and a few of The Three Investigators
And in related topics new Poetry, Language and Linguistics and Literary Biographies in this week include:
- I Know why the Caged Bird Sings and Poems by Maya Angelou in matching PB volumes
- A Mind of Winter – Poems for a Snowy Season selected by Robert Atwan
- Pushkin – A Biography of Russia’s greatest poet by T. J. Bonyon
- Ernest Hemingway – The Short Stories
- The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- May Gibbs – Mother of the Gumnuts – Her Life and Work by Maureen Walsh
- A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions – The Origin and Development of the Pungent and Colourful Phrases we All Use, and… Horse Feathers and other Curious Words - both by Charles Earle Funk
New Zealand books this week include Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals, not to mention a few humans...
- An Inward Sun – The World of Janet Frame by Michael King
- A Nest of Singing Birds – 100 Years of the New Zealand School Journal by Gregory O’Brien
- Pacific Art – Niu Sila – The Pacific Dimension of Contemporary New Zealand Arts by Sean Mallon and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira
- Flight of the Huia – Ecology and Conservation of New Zealand’s Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals by Kerry-Jane Wilson
- The Great Carved House Mataatua of Whakatane by W. J. Phillipps and the late Dr. J.C. Wadmore
- Living a Good Life - To Be a Vegetarian in New Zealand by Pam Bidwell
- Maori Food and Cookery by David Fuller
- The New Zealand Period House – A Conservation Guide by Stuart Arden and Ian Bowman
- Always the Sound of the Sea – The Daily Lives of New Zealand’s Lighthouse Keepers by Helen Beaglehole
- When a Crocodile Eats the Sun – A Memoir by Peter Godwin
- Maori Art – The Photography of Brian Brake with introduction by Witi Ihimaera
- Katherine Mansfield – Manuscripts in the Alexander Turnbull Library
- National Library of New Zealand exhibition booklet - Eileen Mayo – Painter/Designer
Books on Self Help and Self Indulgence - just what we all need after the long winter months....
- The Tropical Spa – Asian Secrets of Health, Beauty and Relaxation by Sophie Benge
- How to Keep House – The Lost Art of Being a Man by Sam Martin
- The Organized Life – Secrets of an Expert Organizer by Stephanie Denton
- If We Ever Break Up, This is My Book by Jason Logan
Random topics of fun and frivolity this week include the Motoring and Sports section, which has had a few fun goodies in this week, like May on Motors by James May (the chap from Top Gear who isn't the Hamster or Jeremy Clarkson), The Bugatti Queen – In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend by Miranda Seymour, Top Gear – Top Drives – Road Trips of a Lifetime in the World’s Most Dramatic Locations and Manchester United – The Biography – From Newton Heath to Moscow, the complete story of the World’s Greatest Football Club by Jim White.
Art and Design, Décor and Photography books this week:
- Lingerie – A Lexicon of Style by Caroline Cox
- Phoenix Rising – The United Arab Emirates – Past, Present and Future by Werner Forman
- Beach Houses Down Under by Stephen Crafti
- The Look of the Century – Design Icons of the 20 th Century by Michael Tambibi and DK
- The Secret Language of Symbols – A Visual Key to Symbols and their Meanings by David Fontana
- Bhutan Kingdom of the Dragon by Robert Dompnier
- The Great Migration with photos by Carlo Mari and text by Harvey Croze
- Pink Africa – A Celebration of the Flamingo with photos by Carlo Mari and text by Nigel Collar
- Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells – Quentin Cottington’s Journal of Faery Research by Terry Jones and Brian Froud
- Cat Capers – Catitude for Cat Lovers with photos by Gandee Vasan
History and Biography, Exploration and Invention
- The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher
- Charles II – King of England, Scotland and Ireland by Ronald Hutton
- Amsterdam – A Brief Life of the City by Geert Mak
- The Secret History of the World – History as seen by Secret Societies by Jonathan Black
- Snow Blind – A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade by Robert Sabbag
- The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson
- Dewey – The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
- Mayflower – A Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Shackleton Voyages – A Pictorial Anthology of the Polar Explorer and Edwardian Hero
- Alchemy – The Art of Knowing and Chivalry– The Path of Love, both in the Medieval Wisdom series
- Business Stripped Bare – Adventures of A Global Entrepreneur by Richard Branson
- Noodling for Flatheads – Moonshine, Monster Catfish and other Southern Comforts by Burkhard Bilger
- Patents – Ingenious Inventions – How they Work and How They Came to Be by Ben Ikenson
- The Times Concise Atlas of the World (Ninth Edition 2005)
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Some Old and Cherished volumes on European History from around 1900 including two sets on the Spanish Inquisition, Runciman’s three volume history of the Crusades, and a volume of John Evelyn’s Diary and Correspondence.
Fabulous Food and unethical dining...
- How to Eat – The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food by Nigella Lawson
- Student’s Vegetarian Cookbook – Quick, Easy, Cheap and Tasty Vegetarian Recipes by Carole Raymond
- Totally Simple Food by Jill Dupleix
- Strange Foods – Bush meat, Bats and Butterflies – An Epicurean Adventure around the World by Jerry Hopkins
- Gordon Ramsay’s Sunday Lunch and other Recipes from the F Word
- Cook at Home with Peter Gordon
- Nigel Slater – The Kitchen Diaries
- The Carluccio’s Collection – Mushrooms and Truffles by Antonio and Priscilla Carluccio
Musical Mayhem this week:
- Audio Culture – Readings in Modern Music edited by Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner
- Gustav Mahler – The Early Years by Donald Mitchell
- Joys and Sorrows - Reflections by Pablo Casals
- Postcards from the Boys – A Collection of Postcards Sent to Ringo Starr From the Other Beatles
- The Sonata in the Classical Era – The 2 nd Volume of A History of the Sonata Idea by William S. Newman
- And an entire symphony of Classical Music titles have strummed and tooted their way in, including an impressive sonata of books about that moody deaf Romantic genius - Ludwig von Beethoven.
Titles include:
- Beethoven’s Quartets by Joseph de Marliave
- Beethoven – Impressions by his Contemporaries edited by O. G. Sonneck
- Beethoven – Letters, Journals and Conversations edited by Michael Hamburger
- Memories of Beethoven by Gerhard von Breuning (A young boy who knew Mr. B. Esq as an old man)
- Beethoven – The Composer as Hero by Philippe Autexier
- Beethoven’s Sketches – An Analysis of his Style Based on a Study of his Sketch Books by Paul Mies
- The Beethoven Companion edited by Denis Arnold and Nigel Fortune
- Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies by George Grove
- The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven by Antony Hopkins and…
- Thayer’s Life of Beethoven edited by Elliot Forbes in one giant volume
Military and Shipping books bombarding the shelves this week have Twentieth Century conflict cornered and about to surrender...
- D-Day – Dawn of Heroes and Battles of WW2 both by Nigel Cawthorne
- Vietnam A History – The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War by Stanley Karnow
- U-Boote 1935-1945 – The History of the Kriegsmarine U-Boats by Jean-Philippe Dallies-Labourdette
- Tank Versus Tank – The Illustrated Story of Armoured Battlefield Conflict in the 20 th Century by Kenneth Macksey
- The Desert my Dwelling Place – With the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa by Lt. Col. David Lloyd Owen
- For Valour – The Air VCs by Chaz Bowyer
- Manhattan to Baghdad – Dispatches from the Frontline in the War on Terror by Paul McGeough
Some of the new books in this week on Natural History and Sciences:
- Wilderness A-Z – An Essential Guide to the Great Outdoors by Rachel Carley
- Indian Country, God’s Country – Native Americans and the National Parks by Philip Burnham
- The Norton Book of Nature Writing by Robert Finch and John Elder, and
- A Field Guide to The Norton Book of Nature Writing by Lilace Mellin Guignard
- God Created the Integers – The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History edited by Stephen Hawking
- Wildflower – An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa by Mark Seal
- Water Wars – Is the World’s Water Running Out? By Marq de Villiers
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