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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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Q. I wonder which package has the corgi in it ... ?
A. Depends how long the corgi has been wrapped. Could be the smelly one, or the noisy one, or the one inching slowly across the highly polished floor!

And in totally unrelated news to all things Corgi-ish....

We've got our Science Fiction ordering pages up again!

Started with the best of intentions some time ago, they fell by the wayside due to getting waaaay too busy doing pesky silly things like mmm, moving the shop!

So, if you want to find out what's coming our way in Science Fictiony and Fantasy goodness, and you don't want to miss out on a copy of the book you want, sign up now.

Then all you have to do is wait with baited breath for us to contact you and tell you that a copy of your next favourite book is waiting safely behind the counter for you. (Ok so maybe breath occasionally.)

• Eliminate all possible chances that we may run out before you get your copy!
• Stimey the staff who want to read your book before you!
• Sidestep the other sad punters who didn't plan ahead!

Exciting titles coming soon that you could sign up for include:

• First Lord's Fury (Codex Alera [6]) By Butcher, Jim
• Mission Of Honor By Weber, David
• In the Stormy Red Sky By Drake, David
• Dust of Dreams (Malazen 9) By Erikson, Steven
• Grantville Gazette 4 By Flint, Eric
• Being of the Field By Harding, Traci
• Black Magic Sanction By Harrison, Kim
• 1635: The Dreeson Incident By Flint, Eric and Demarce, Virginia
• Torch of Freedom By Weber, David and Flint, Eric C.

And in extremely related news...

The first new title from Stephenie Meyer in nearly two years, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner will be in store tomorrow from 4.05 pm!

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a novella told from the point of view of Bree, a character originally featured in Eclipse.
The novella (at 192 pages and with proceeds to earthquake relief in Haiti & Chile) will be released at 4.05pm on Saturday, June 5, 2010 in a limited edition hardcover so be in quick.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
By Stephenie Meyer
Hardback
$27.00
Arty Bees Tag# 64000

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

Fiction, Fiction, Fiction!

• The Contortionist’s Handbook by Craig Clevenger
• The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
• Ascent by Jed Mercurio
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (illustrated and in French)

And Graphic Novels ...

• Stupid Comics by Jim Mahfood
• V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
• American Splendour – Ordinary Life is Pretty Complex Stuff – The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar by Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis
• Yes is More – An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution by Bjarke Ingels Group
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• The War at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel by Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber

New Zealand and the Pacific

• The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War edited by Gavin McLean & Ian McGibbon with Kynan Gentry
• The Complete New Zealand Distinguished Conduct Medal – An Account of the New Zealand Recipients of the DCM collated by Alan Polaschek
• Thrift to Fantasy – Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s to 1950s by Rosemary McLeod
• Dick Frizzell – The Painter – Live Clean and let your Works be Seen (New)
• 360° Views of New Zealand by Judith Holtebrinck
• The New Zealand Beeches – Ecology, Utilisation and Management by John Wardle
• The Nature of Things – Poems from the New Zealand Landscape edited by James Brown, photos by Craig Potton
• The Waiting Pig by A Patrick Conlan
• Leading the Way – How New Zealand Women Won the Vote by Megan Hutching
• Developing a Sanctuary – The Karori Experience by Diane Campbell-Hunt
• Air Con – The Seriously Inconvenient Truth about Global Warning by Ian Wishart
• Making Peoples – A History of the New Zealanders – From Polynesian Settlement to the 19 th Century by James Belich
• Ready to Fly – The Story of New Zealand Rock Music by David Eggleton

Classics and Poetry, Essays and Literati

• The World Within – Writers Talk – The Tin Hose Interviews
• The Ode Less Travelled – Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
• Good-bye to all that – An Autobiography by Robert Graves
• Wormholes – John Fowles – Essays and Occasional Writings edited by Jan Relf
• Seven Taoist Masters – A Folk Novel of China translated by Eva Wong
• Love in a Cold Climate and other Novels by Nancy Mitford
• English Fairy Tales / Englische Märchen – English–German bilingual
• The Poetical Cat – An Anthology edited by Felicity Bast

History, Politics and Biography

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
• The Hitler Emigrés – The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism by Daniel Snowman
• The Flâneur – A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
• The Domesday Quest – In Search of the Roots of England by Michael Wood
• Wedlock – How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband met his Match by Wendy Moore
• The Gifts of the Jews – How a tribe of Desert Nomads changed the way Everyone Thinks & Feels by Thomas Cahill
• Lawrence of Arabia by B H Liddell Hart
• A Prince of our Disorder – The Life of T E Lawrence by John E Mack
• The Emperor of Scent – A Story of Perfume, Obsession and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr
• The Opium Wars – The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another by W Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello
• Red Princess – A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff
• The Widow Clicquot – The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman who Ruled it by Tilar J Mazzeo
• Bombay – The Cities Within by Sharada Dwiveda and Rahul Mehrotra

Military

• The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
• The Arab-Israeli Wars – War and Peace in the Middle East from the War of Independence through Lebanon by Chaim Herzog
• Six Days of War – June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B Oren
• The Killing Ground – The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern War 1900-1918 by Tim Travers
• For the Common Defence – A Military History of the USA by Allan R Millett and Peter Maslowski
• The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War by Hew Strachan
• The Great World War 1914-1945 Vol 1: Lightning Strikes Twice by John Bourne, Peter Liddle & Ian Whitehead
• The Glorious Cause – The American Revolution 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff
• A Stout Pair of Boots – A Guide to Exploring Australia’s Battlefields by Peter Stanley
• The Cold War – A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
• Undercover Tales of World War II by Wiliam B Breuer
• Battle Tactics of the Western Front – The British Army’s Art of Attack 1916-1918 by Paddy Griffith
• Essential Militaria by Nicholas Hobbes
• Deceptions of World War II by William B Breuer
• An Army at Dawn – The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
• And The Day of Battle – The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-1944 also by Rick Atkinson
• The Great War for Civilization – The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
• Warrior Race – A History of the British at War by Lawrence James
• Kitchener’s War – British Strategy from 1914 to 1916 by George H Cassar
• On Killing – The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
• Colditz – The Definitive History by Henry Chancellor
• An Intimate History of Killing – Face-to-Face Killing in 20 th Century Warfare by Joanna Bourke
• The Somme – Heroes and Horror in the First World War by Martin Gilbert
• The Unknown Soldier – The Story of the Missing of the Great War by Neil Hanson
• Europe’s Last Summer – Who Started the Great War in 1914? By David Fromkin
• Storm of Steel – One of the most Striking Accounts of the First World War by Ernst Jünger
• British Orders and Decorations by Peter Duckers
• British Campaign Medals 1914-2005 by Peter Duckers
• 109 East Palace – Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
• Corsets to Camouflage – Women and War by Kate Adie
• Mud, Blood and Poppycock - Britain and the First World War by Gordon Corrigan
• Machine Gun – The Story of the Men and the Weapon that Changed the Face of War by Anthony Smith
• Forgotten Victory – The First World War – Myths and Realities by Gary Sheffield
• Animals in War – Valiant Horses, Courageous Dogs and other Unsung Animal Heroes by Jilly Cooper
• 14-18 Understanding the Great War by Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker\
• The Utility of Force – The Art of War in the Modern World by General Rupert Smith
• Douglas Haig - Architect of Victory by Walter Reid

Travel, Transport and Places

• Magic and Mystery in Tibet – A Woman’s Extraordinary Journey to Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel
• Crusader – By Horse to Jerusalem by Tim Severin
• River Town – Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
• Journey to Portugal – A Pursuit of Portugal’s History and Culture by José Saramago
• The Illustrated History of Canal and River Navigation by Edward Paget-Tomlinson
• The Man who invented History – Travels with Herodotus by Justin Marozzi
• Classic British Steam Locomotives by Peter Herring
• Southern Lighthouses – Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico by Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones

Arts and Crafts, Antiques and Photography

• The Complete Practical Potter – A Comprehensive Guide to Ceramics by Josie Warshaw
• Frida by Frida – Selection of Letters and Texts
• A Dictionary of Abstract Painting by Michel Seuphor
• The Second Earth – The Pentateuch Re-told by Patrick Woodroffe
• A-Z of Art and Artists – An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary by David Piper
• Knitted Toys – 25 Fresh and Fabulous Designs by Zoë Mellor
• Mirage by Boris Vallejo
• The Atlas of Rugs and Carpets – A Comprehensive Guide for the Buyer and Collector edited by David Black
• A Closer Look at the Art Techniques of Patrick Woodroffe
• Susan Sontag on Photography
• Annie Leibovitz – At Work
• Salvador Dali by Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret and Taschen
• Images of the Human Body by the Pepin Press
• The Big Book of Illustration Ideas – 100s of the Best Contemporary Examples grouped by Subject edited by Roger Walton

Architecture and Design

• Skylines of the World – Yesterday and Today by M Hill Goodspeed
• Interiors Now! edited by Angelika Taschen
• Hundertwasser Architecture – For a More Human Architecture in Harmony with Nature by Taschen (New)
• Architecture – A Visual History by James Neal
• Restoration Recipes – A Sourcebook of Techniques & Projects for Restoring Antiques & Second-hand Furniture by Julia de Berre and James Bain Smith
• The Eiffel Tower by Gustave Eiffel and Taschen
• Antoni Gaudì – Complete Works by Aurora Cuito and Cristina Montes
• Bombay Gothic by Christopher W London
• Architecture of the Islamic World – Its History and Social Meaning edited by George Michell
• Living with Decorative Textiles – Tribal Art from Africa, Asia and the Americas by Nicholas Barnard

Fashion, Film and Music ♫ ♫ ♫

• Brad Pitt by the Editors of Us
• The Rest is Noise – Listening the 20 th Century by Alex Ross
• The Sound and the Fury – A Rock’s Backpages Reader – 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism edited by Barney Hoskyns
• Vintage T Shirts by Patrick Guetta, Marc Guetta and Alison A Nieder (New)
• The Wonderful World of Ladies’ Fashion 1850-1920 edited by Joseph J Schroeder Jr
• Male Super Models – The Men of Boss Models
• According to the Rolling Stones edited by Dora Loewenstein and Philip Dodd

Cooking and Gardening

• Jamie at Home – Cook your Way to the Good Life by Jamie Oliver
• Julie and Julia – 365 Days, 524 Recipes, one tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
• Cooking Without Made Easy – Free from Added Gluten, Sugar, Yeast and Dairy by Barbara Cousins
• Easy Vegan Cooking – Over 350 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion by Leah Leneman

Science and Natural History

• Nuclear Weapons – What you Need to Know also by Jeremy Bernstein
• The No-Nonsense Guide to Water by Maggie Black
• Astronomy through the Ages – The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universe by Robert Wilson
• A Single Swallow – Following an Epic Journey from South Africa to South Wales by Horatio Clare
• Penguins – The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Intriguing Birds by Brutus Östling and Susanne Åkesson
• Into the Amazon – Chico Mendes and the Struggle for the Rain Forest by Augusta Dwyer
• Plutonium – A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element by Jeremy Bernstein
• Home – Tales of a Heritage Farm by Anny Scoones
• Albatross – Their World, Their Ways by Tui de Roy, Mark Jones and Julian Fitter
• The Invention of Clouds – How an Amateur Meteorologist forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn

Religion, Philosophy and New Age

• Joyful Path of Good Fortune – The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
• Total I Ching – Myths for Change by Stephen Karcher
• Christ – A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu and translated by Thomas Cleary

Sport and Transport

• The Ultimate History of Fast Cars – Vehicles built for the Fast Lane by Jonathon Wood
• Working Out, Working Within – The Tao of Inner Fitness through Sports and Exercise by Jerry Lynch and Chungliang al Huang
• Classical T’ai Chi Sword by Petra and Toyo Kobayashi

Family and Self Help

• Girlbomb- A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum
• The Perfect Baby Name – A Proven Plan for Choosing a Name you’ll Love by Jeanine Cox
• What to Expect Before you’re Expecting – The Complete Preconception Plan by Heidi Murkoff & Sharon Mazel
• Oh Baby – Birth, Babies and Motherhood Uncensored – A New Zealand Guide by Kathy Fray
• Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach
• Calm for Life by Paul Wilson
• The 4-Hour Work-Week – Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
• Orchids on your Budget – Live Smartly on What you Have by Marjorie Halls

Fun and Frivolities

• The Complete Peanuts – The Definitive Collection 1955-1956 by Charles M Schulz
• How to have Kick-Ass Ideas – Get Serious, Get Adventurous, Get Creative by Chris Barez-Brown
• Sugarbabe – The Book that will be on Everyone’s Lips by Holly Hill
• Pretty in Pink – Why it’s Good to be a Girl! By Bob Elsdale and Vasilisa
• How to be a Villain – Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans and More by Neil Zawacki

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? Really ? A lack of a familial relationship with a sheep is a good enough reason to smell like your dog?

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