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Shadow Country  •  Peter Matthiessen LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER Matthiessen revisits and reworks his tale of Florida sugarcane farmer and infamous murderer Edgar J. Watson in this reprise of his classic trilogy Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone. (FLA72, $40.00)
Prague in Danger, The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45  •  Peter Demetz HISTORY •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 274 PAGES With a subtitle "Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Fillm and Poetry, Politics and War, this fine, magnficiently readable portrait of Prague during the war illuminates daily life and culture. Demetz tells the story of his beloved city with the range and wisdom of a renowned historian and the personal touch of a native. He came of age in Prague under Nazi rule, adrotely combining history, biography and memoir. (CZH84, $25.00)
The Reserve  •  Russell Banks LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER Not all is well at Tamarack Reserve in Bank's absorbing tale of class, politics, family and lunacy -- set in the Adirondacks in the 1930s. Loosely based on the life of noted illustrator, womanizer and independent-thinker Rockwell Kent, the Spanish Civil War and Hindenberg also intrude on the cozy familiarity of the startlingly beautiful summer retreat. (NYS69, $24.95)
The Reavers  •  George MacDonald Fraser LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 288 PAGES A comic tale of adventure set in seventeenth century Scotland. (GBR755, $24.00)
The Miracle at Speedy Motors  •  Alexander McCall Smith LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 224 PAGES Ever exuberant, extraordinarily productive Alexander McCall Smith once again channels the life and world view of a certain Precious Ramotswe in this latest installment in his endlessly pleasurable No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Our sensible, redbush tea-drinking heroine helps a woman find her relatives, enjoys the company of her sweet-hearted husband (proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors) and gets mixed up in the lives of her neighbors. Not much action for a murder mystery but McCall Smith wittily conjures the society, folklore and daily life of bygone Gaberone. (BOT31, $22.95)
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle  •  Robyn Scott BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 464 PAGES A memoir of wildly unconventional childhood in Botswana and South Africa. Scott's parents, two eccentric, idealistic New Zealanders, chose eco-friendly mosquito nets over more effective chemical treatments, downplay the threat of snakebites, and make jokes about tuberculosis. Despite memorable brushes with the devestation of AIDS and post-apartheid rascism, Scott observes the continent and her free-spirited upbringing with enthusiasm and affection. (SAF203, $24.95)
American Earth  •  William McKibben REFERENCE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 900 PAGES A provocative anthology of top-selected American environmental writings from the past two centuries considers their influence on the ways in which people view the natural world and includes pieces by such figures as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John James Audubon. (NAT139, $40.00)
The Audubon Reader  •  John James Audubon ANTHOLOGY •  2006 •  HARD COVER A definitive anthology of nature writings by the great artist and ornithologist features Audubon's lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness and its plant and animal life, accompanied by excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works that include his keen profiles of wild birds, accounts of his river journeys with the Osage, and more. (BRD59, $27.50)
Cape Cod  •  Henry David Thoreau LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 272 PAGES Scot Miller's stunning color photographs accompany this gift edition of Thoreau's enduring classic. (USE436, $35.00)
The Sea Around Us  •  Rachel Carson NATURAL HISTORY •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 288 PAGES An illustrated commemorative edition of Carson's influential, hugely popular paean to the sea and the interconnectedness of nature, featuring 130 color photographs. Carl Safina provides the forward. (OCE05, $49.95)
Everyman's Library 100 Titles Set  •  Various LITERATURE •  2006 •  HARD COVER An enduring hardcover library of 100 classic and contemporary works from literature to history to philosophy in handsome Everyman's editions. With original introductions, up-to-date bibliographies and chronologies of the authors' lives and works. Beautifully made, these editions are printed on acid-free, natural-cream-colored text paper with Smyth-sewn binding, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers and European-style half-round spines. (GEN401, $2230.95)
Love Delhi  •  Love Travel Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  BOXED  • 152 PAGES Packaged in an audacious (and very fashionable) satchel of locally woven raw silk in fuschia, this beautifully made, affectionate guide captures the soul of the city, pointing with authority to neighborhoods, shops, markets, restaurants and attractions. The guides are a labor of love by the Bangalore-based Fiona Caulfield and associates, printed on eco-friendly & non-bleached handmade paper, with hand-printed Tibetan raw silk cover (known as ‘burrey' or ‘tsen'; handwoven in South Assam, India). With chapters on escapes to Jaipur, Varanassi, Agra, Ranthambhore, Amritsar and Rishikesh. (IDA403, $40.00)
Exploring Kyoto, On Foot Through the Ancient Capital  •  Judith Clancy GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 233 PAGES Judith Clancy's indispensable compact guide to exploring the neighborhoods, gardens and sanctuaries of Kyoto on foot features 30 walking tours of both famous and little-known treasures, detailed maps and a section of color photographs. (JPN26, $16.95)
Lost Worlds, Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest  •  Bruce Beehler BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 256 PAGES Drawing on his experiences in Papua New Guinea, India, Madagascar, Indonesia, the Philippines, Panama, and the Ivory Coast, Beehler describes the surprises-- both pleasant and unpleasant -- of fieldwork. He explains the role that rainforests play in the lives of indigenous peoples and the crucial importance of understanding local cultures, customs, and politics. The author concludes with simple but tough solutions for maintaining rainforest health, expressing fervent hope that his great-grandchildren and others may one day also hear the rainforest whisper its secrets. (NAT145, $28.00)
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo  •  Kate Jackson NATURAL HISTORY •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 321 PAGES Jackson writes with matter-of-fact good humor of her adventures in search of reptiles and amphibians (naturally, many are venomous) in the forested swampland of the northern Congo in this action-packed memoir of the life of a young field biologist. (CAF40, $27.95)
Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology  •  Margaret Lowman BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2000 •  PAPER  • 219 PAGES The sprightly memoir of a biologist who, with her feet planted firmly on the ground, took to the trees in 1979. A pioneer in the ecology of forest tree canopies, Meg Lowman climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living. She's also a popular lecturer on trips to the Amazon and Director of Research and Conservation at Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota. She's remarkably frank in this engaging memoir about balancing her multiple roles as as scientist, woman, wife and mom. (AMZ57, $13.95)
Life in the Valley of Death, The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed  •  Alan Rabinowitz NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 296 PAGES Conservationist and adventurer Rabinowitz sets out to establish the world's largest tiger preserve in Burma's remote and rugged Hukaung Valley, running afoul of warlords, corrupt officials and his own mortality along the way. (BMA54, $25.95)
Water, Ice and Stone, Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes  •  Bill Green NATURAL HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 283 PAGES This lyrical memoir of life and work in Antarctica is an excellent introduction to the 1,000-square-mile McMurdo Dry Valleys and modern research. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal in Nature Writing. (ANT42, $15.95)
Amazon Expeditions, My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator  •  Paul Colinvaux SCIENCE •  2008 •  HARD COVER In this vivid memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. He recounts an adventurous tale of exploration in the days before GPS and satellite mapping, and a tale no less exhilarating of his battle to disprove a hypothesis endorsed by most of the scientific community. Colinvaux's grand endeavor, begun in the 1960s, was to find fossil evidence of the ice-age climate and vegetation of the entire American equator, from Pacific to Atlantic. The accomplishment of the task by the author and his colleagues involved finding unknown ancient lakes, lugging drilling equipment through uncharted Amazon jungle, operating hand drills from rubber boats in water 40 meters deep, and inventing a pollen analysis for a land with 80,000 species of plants. Colinvaux's years of arduous travel and research ultimately disproved a hotly defended hypothesis explaining bird distribution peculiarities in the Amazon forest. The story of how he arrived at a new understanding of the Amazon is at once an adventurous saga, an account of science as it is conducted in the field, and a cautionary tale about the temptation to treat a favored hypothesis with a reverence that subverts unbiased research. (AMZ113, $32.50)
Special Assignments  •  Boris Akunin LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES Peopled by a rich cast of eccentric characters, and with plots that are as surprising as they are inventive, "Special Assignments "will delight Akunin's many fans, while challenging the gentleman sleuth's brilliant powers of detection. (RUS371, $14.00)
Dispatch from a Cold Country  •  Robert Cullen MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER An award-winning journalist with 20 years of experience in Washington and Moscow, Robert Cullen unfolds a riveting story of murder, greed, and corruption at the highest levels of power in Russia in this suspenseful thriller, originally published in 1996. Gorky Park with an American protagonist and a nifty art-history element. This enormously authoritative espionage is third in the Colin Burke series. (RUS363, $14.95)
Cover Story  •  Robert Cullen MYSTERY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 378 PAGES This action-packed thriller, rescued from oblivion by Maggie Topkins at Felony & Mayhem, features derring-do, espionage, politics and a Moscow setting. Cullen knows from which he writes; he was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief for 15 years. (RUS362, $14.95)
Black Knight in Red Square  •  Stuart Kaminsky MYSTERY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 242 PAGES Second in the Inspector Rostnikov Mysteries by the Edgar Award winner, originally published in 1989 and rescued from oblivion by Felony & Mayhem. (RUS364, $14.95)
Face to Face With Polar Bears  •  Norbert Rosing NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 32 PAGES • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8) This account of adventures with the polar bears of Churchill for youngsters features photography by Norbert Rosing (World of the Polar Bear). (ARC198, $16.95)
Face to Face With Frogs  •  Mark Moffett LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 32 PAGES • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8) You're two inches away from a poison dart frog. You're lying on the rainforest floor as she hops toward you, utterly fearless. This deadly terribilis frog has nothing to fear; your fear is that any accidental contact with your skin could mean death! Let Mark W. Moffett, winner of the 2006 Lowell Thomas Medal for Exploration, show you around the diverse world of frogs. Get the expert view on our amphibian friends, from metamorphosis to diet, from habitat to distinctive features; and learn why we urgently need to foster a healthier planet for these sensitive creatures. (NAT140, $16.95)
Face to Face With Lions  •  Dereck Joubert LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 32 PAGES • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8) You look straight ahead. You try to breathe normally. You can smell the scent of the huge cat that is staring back. You are a cameraman. He is the King of Beasts. Your only thought is "I hope he has already eaten today." Let National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert bring you closer to the power and majesty of the regal African lion. With fewer than 25,000 wild lions now left on Earth, the award-winning filmmakers and naturalists make a passionate plea to readers to take an active role in securing a future for these magnificent creatures. (BST115, $16.95)

A Photographic Guide to Seashore Life in the North Atlantic  •  J. Duane Sept   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With 300 crisp, vibrant color photographs and brief, precise descriptions, this field guide makes it easier than ever to identify 225 common intertidal species found from Canada to Cape Cod. (GEN441, $19.95)