Leslie S. Klinger

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Big Ideas Simply Explained

Learn about the world’s greatest detective in The Sherlock Holmes Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sherlock Holmes in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sherlock Holmes Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Sherlock Holmes, with: - Includes all four novels and 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Sherlock Holmes Book is a captivating introduction to every case investigated by Holmes and Dr. Watson in the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, aimed at adult fans of the books, movies, or TV shows and want to know more. Exciting text and bold graphics explain elements of each plot and shows how Holmes reaches his conclusions through deductive reasoning. Your Sherlock Holmes Questions, Simply Explained From the first novel, A Study in Scarlet, to the masterpiece that is The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Conan Doyle’s final Holmes tale, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, this guide explores every facet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master detective, his world, and his enduring appeal. If you thought it was difficult to untangle his razor-sharp wit, The Sherlock Holmes Book presents key information about Sherlock in an easy to follow layout. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Sherlock Holmes Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

The Sherlock Holmes Book

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Emily St. John Mandel

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

The Glass Hotel

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Gary Spivack

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Look at the Stars

Chronicles the rise of the English band Coldplay, from their insecure beginnings to their position as two-time Grammy winners with sold-out concerts and two multiplatinum albums to their credit.

Coldplay

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Walter Isaacson

"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The [bestselling biographer] brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Drawing on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from standing at the intersection of the humanities and technology. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's most memorable smile on the Mona Lisa. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. His ability to combine art and science, made iconic by his drawing of what may be himself inside a circle and a square, remains the enduring recipe for innovation. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it; to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different."--Jacket.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Miles J. Unger

A Life in Six Masterpieces

The life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces.

Among the immortals--Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso--Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting that he had no master but his own demanding muse and promoting the novel idea that it was the artist, rather than the lord who paid for it, who was creative force behind the work.

Miles Unger narrates the astonishing life of this driven and difficult man through six of his greatest masterpieces. Each work expanded the expressive range of the medium, from the Pietà Michelangelo carved as a brash young man, to the apocalyptic Last Judgment, the work of an old man tested by personal trials. Throughout the course of his career he explored the full range of human possibility. In the gargantuan David he depicts Man in the glory of his youth, while in the tombs he carved for the Medici he offers a sustained meditation on death and the afterlife. In the Sistine Chapel ceiling he tells the epic story of Creation, from the perfection of God's initial procreative act to the corruption introduced by His imperfect children. In the final decades of his life, his hands too unsteady to wield the brush and chisel, he exercised his mind by raising the soaring vaults and dome of St. Peter's in a final tribute to his God.

A work of deep artistic understanding, Miles Unger's Michelangelo brings to life the irascible, egotistical, and undeniably brilliant man whose artistry continues to amaze and inspire us after 500 years.

Michelangelo

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Daniel Silva

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva is back with an electrifying new thriller. Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

The Collector

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David Sedaris

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.



Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.

 

But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.

 

As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter.

 

In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.

Happy-Go-Lucky

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John P. Carroll

Chuck Williams

Williams-Sonoma

Features 50 easy-to-make pie recipes with full-page, full-color photographs.

Pies and Tarts

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Allan Rosenberg

America's most respected cookware retailer, the world's largest book publisher, and renowned cooking authorities combine their talents to guide modern cooks.

Grilling

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Susanna Palazuelos

Featuring recipes for fare such as Smoked Salmon Mousse, Rack of Lamb, Fillet of Beef with Paprika and Coriander--or mouthwatering desserts such as Caipirinha Cream Pie, Apple Charlotte with Brandy Creme and Apricot, or Blue Plum Tart, Festive Entertaining is the only book a cook will need to pull off a wonderful evening.

Mexican Favorites

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Provides over forty recipes for preparing fish, poultry, beef, pork, lamb, fruits, vegetables, and side dishes outdoors. Features photographs of each dish and includes a glossary of major ingredients.

Outdoor Cooking

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Stir-Fry

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Joyce Goldstein

Laurie Wertz

Gathers international-style recipes for braised, poached, steamed, sauteed, fried, broiled, grilled, baked, and roasted fish, and includes recipes for salads

Fish

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Muffins and Quick Breads

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A "must have" collection for the kitchen of the '90s. America's most respected cookware retailer, the world's largest book publisher, and renowned cooking authorities combine their talents to inspire and guide modern cooks. Stunning color photo of each dish.

Cakes, Cupcakes and Cheesecakes

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Kristine Kidd

Cookies and Biscotti

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Lorenza De' Medici

Pizza

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Jacqueline Mallorca

Breads

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Hilliard T. Goldfarb

Beautifully illustrated guide purchased at the Museum. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Companion Guide and History

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is home to one of the pre-eminent collections of art in the United States, with more than 2,500 treasures ranging from Chinese bronzes to Titian's Europa.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Robert Jones, Jr.

Finalist for the National Book Award Instant New York Times Bestseller "May this book cast its spell on all of us, restore to us some memory of our most warrior and softest selves." —The New York Times Book Review “A new kind of epic...A grand achievement...While The Prophets' dreamy realism recalls the work of Toni Morrison...its penetrating focus on social dynamics stands out more singularly.” —Entertainment Weekly A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel's love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation's harmony. With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets fearlessly reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love.

The Prophets

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Pete Townshend

Rare signed first edition in very fine condition. Highly collectible. 

A Memoir

The legendary lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the Who, one of the most influential rock-and-roll bands of all time, pens his own story.

Who I Am—Signed

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Gregory Berns

A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain

A neuroscientist recounts his efforts to overcome administrative and behavioral hurdles to train his dogs to sit still during an MRI scan, an effort that produced evidence about canine empathy and the human-dog bond.

How Dogs Love Us

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David Grimm

Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs

A pet-lover and award-winning journalist traces the history of cats and dogs and the changing social attitudes that transformed these furry creatures from pests and hunting tools in the middle ages to their current status as beloved family members. 30,000 first printing.

Citizen Canine

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John Homans

The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend

Describes the author's loving relationship with a rescued dog and his observations about how today's pet dogs are treated with considerably more care than in past generations, exploring the dog's complex and prominent place in the world while assessing related issues about animal rights and ethics. 40,000 first printing.

What's a Dog For?

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The Sherlock Holmes Book

Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel

Gary Spivack

Coldplay

Walter Isaacson

Leonardo Da Vinci

Miles J. Unger

Michelangelo

Daniel Silva

The Collector

David Sedaris

Happy-Go-Lucky

John P. Carroll; Chuck Williams

Pies and Tarts

John P. Carroll; Chuck Williams; Allan Rosenberg

Grilling

Susanna Palazuelos; Chuck Williams

Mexican Favorites

John P. Carroll

Outdoor Cooking

Chuck Williams

Stir-Fry

Joyce Goldstein; Laurie Wertz; Chuck Williams

Fish

John P. Carroll; Allan Rosenberg; Chuck Williams

Muffins and Quick Breads

Chuck Williams

Cakes, Cupcakes and Cheesecakes

Kristine Kidd; Chuck Williams

Cookies and Biscotti

Lorenza De' Medici; Allan Rosenberg; Chuck Williams

Pizza

Allan Rosenberg; Jacqueline Mallorca

Breads

Hilliard T. Goldfarb

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Robert Jones, Jr.

The Prophets

Pete Townshend

Who I Am—Signed

Gregory Berns

How Dogs Love Us

David Grimm

Citizen Canine

John Homans

What's a Dog For?

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