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Hidden Gardens of Paris  •  Susan Cahill GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES Featuring 40 parks, squares and woodlands, posh and plain, both in Paris and surrounds, Cahill's illustrated guide will lead you off the beaten track to areas of Paris you might not otherwise encounter. (FRA02, $19.99)
Logavina Street, Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood  •  Barbara Demick CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2012 •  PAPER  • 232 PAGES National Book Award finalist Demick delivers a well-honed work of reportage as she revisits the war in the Balkans from the perspective of the lives of the inhabitants of a single Sarejevo street. Like her book on North Korea - Nothing to Envy (KOR44) - this is an intimate portrait of conflict through the eyes of ordinary citizens. (BLK168, $16.00)
Chasing Venus, The Race to Measure the Heavens  •  Andrea Wulf SCIENCE •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 324 PAGES Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in remote corners of the world to measure on June 6, 1761 the first transit Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century -- only to have their efforts thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs: eight years later, the scientists were given a second chance to get it right. Chasing Venus brings to life this extraordinary endeavor: thepersonalities of eighteenth-century astronomy, the collaborations, discoveries, personal rivalries, volatile international politics, and the race to be first to measure the distances between the planets. (SCI307, $26.95)
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection  •  Alexander McCall Smith LITERATURE •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 257 PAGES Precious Ramotswe is back and, as usual, her plate is full! She's called in to tackle a mysterious disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school...Her infinitely trustworthy assistant, Grace Makutsi, is having trouble adjusting to wedded bliss, a problem to test even the formidable talents of Mma Ramotswe...And the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of The Principles of Private Investigation -- the No. 1 Ladies' prized manual -- has arrived, right there, in Botswana, on a case of his own. Bush tea anyone? (BOT44, $24.95)
Naples Declared  •  Benjamin Taylor CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 240 PAGES In his new book, Taylor takes a city of binaries, simultaneously ghastly and astonishingly beautiful, and, with his graceful and contagious prose, melds it into a fascinating whole. Immersed in the city's culture and people, this is a great book for anyone interested in understanding and appreciating the many complexities of modern day Naples. (ITA315, $26.95)
Love, Life, and Elephants  •  Daphne Sheldrick BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 352 PAGES In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship. (EAF392, $27.95)
Discovering Totem Poles, A Traveler's Guide  •  Aldona Jonaitis GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 112 PAGES Aldona Jonaitis explores the making and displaying of 90 monumental totem poles along the coast of Washington State, British Columbia and Alaska. (PNW309, $16.95)
Alaskan Travels, Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure  •  Edward Hoagland TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 208 PAGES Faced with a midlife crisis, Edward Hoagland decided to adventure out into one of the last wild territories remaining on Earth: Alaska. Intent on fully exploring the land, Hoagland travels from the Arctic Ocean to the Kenai Peninsula, the backstreets of Anchorage to the Yukon River, exhaustively documenting the flora, fauna and people of America's last frontier. In his forward, novelist Howard Frank Mosher describes this tale as "the best book ever written about America's last best place". (ALA364, $22.95)
The Great Cake Mystery, Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case  •  Alexander McCall Smith MYSTERY •  2012 •  PAPER  • 73 PAGES • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) McCall Smith follows on from the huge success of his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by offering this charming prequel in which the reader catches up with the agency's top detective, Precious Ramotswe, as a child. Naturally, the young Precious reveals a knack for crime-busting early on, her first case taking her on the trail of a sticky-fingered thief who's been stealing from her classmates' lunches. (AFR299, $6.99)
The Appian Way  •  Robert A. Kaster ARCHAEOLOGY •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 124 PAGES Professor of classics and the Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at Princeton University, Kaster brings scholarship to this account of his adventures along the ancient highway from from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. With suggested reading, coordinates of his favorite spots, a guide to Rome and suggestions for the traveler. (ITA310, $22.50)
City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas  •  Roger Crowley HISTORY •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 400 PAGES Tracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, City of Fortune is framed by two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminated in the sacking of Constantinople and the carve-up of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499-1503, which saw the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between were three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance -- years of plunder and plague, conquest and piracy -- during which a tiny city of lagoon dwellers grew into the richest place on earth. Well-traveled in the Mediterranean, Crowley is also the author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World. (MED185, $32.00)
Vanished Kingdoms, How Nations Rise and Fall  •  Norman Davies HISTORY •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 720 PAGES There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Davies, Professor Emeritus at London University, peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to present to us the histories of fourteen all-but-forgotten European kingdoms and nation states -- Aragon, Etruria, the Kingdom of the Two Burgundies, among others -- showing us how countries rise, mature and disappear. (EUR404, $40.00)
Paris to the Past, Traveling Through French History by Train  •  Ina Caro TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2012 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES Ina Caro (Road from the Past) invites readers to join her on 25 one-day trips by train from Paris, transporting us back through 700 years of French history. Whether taking us to Orleans to evoke the miraculous visions of Joan of Arc, to Versailles to experience the flamboyant achievements of Louis XIV, or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. Organizing her destinations chronologically from 12th-century Saint-Denis to the 19th-century Restoration at Chantilly, Caro appeals not only to casual travelers aboard the Metro or the TGV but also to anyone interested in Franch history. (FRN953, $17.95)
The Buddhas of Bamiyan  •  Llewelyn Morgan HISTORY •  2012 •  HARD COVER  • 265 PAGES For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan. (CAS211, $19.95)
To a Mountain in Tibet  •  Colin Thubron TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2012 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Now in his eighth decade, the intrepid, soulful Thubron journeys to Kailash, the revered embodiment of life, death, impermanence and the eternal -- "the source of the universe, created from cosmic waters and the mind of Brahma." A NY Times Notable Book of 2011. (TBT134, $15.99)

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