Franny Moyle

New Biography of painter Hans Holbein the Younger , portraitist at the Court of Henry VIII

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Vermont

The Life of Hans Holbein

From a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whose art shaped politics and immortalized the Tudors



Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realized portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, his advisors Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, his wives Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the age, Holbein was a multifaceted genius: a humanist, satirist, and political propagandist, and a deft man whose work was rich in layers of symbolism and allusion.



In The King's Painter, biographer Franny Moyle traces and analyzes the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror. It is a work of serious scholarship written for a wide audience.

The King's Painter

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Classic crime stories originally published in Ellery Queen magazine

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Christmas Crimes

Whodunits in the Murder She Wrote tradition 

More Murder, They Wrote

Mystery short stories with a Route 66 theme

Murder on Route 66

Funny Bones

Mystery anthology - short stories related to Christmas

Murder for Christmas Volume II

Mayhem, murder & the macabre stories relating to Christmas published 1981

The Twelve Crimes of Christmas

Volume 4 in the Anne of Green Gables series 

Anne of Windy Poplars

Volume 3 in the Anne of Green Gables series

Anne of the Island

Alice Munro

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE#65533; IN LITERATURE 2013

In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.

The Moons of Jupiter

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Short Story collection by Alice Munro, a master of the firm

The Progress of Love

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Short story collection. Rumpole of the Old Bailey

Here are seven stories--selected and with an introduction by the author--featuring Horace Rumpole, star of the popular PBS television series "Rumpole of the Bailey". The corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" is joined by a winning cast in tales that deftly send up the British legal system with their wry humor and sparkling wit.

The Best of Rumpole

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Stories told by Mother Teresa

Reaching Out in Love

Will Thomas

Great crime-solving duo in Victorian London

A Barker and Llewelyn Novel

"This atmospheric historical thriller is as good as it gets" (Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of I Shall Not Want) in the evocative Barker and Llewelyn series as mysterious murders hint at a dark conspiracy in the heart of London.

When an Italian assassin's body is found floating in a barrel in Victorian London's East End, enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn are called in to investigate. Soon corpses begin to appear all over London, each accompanied by a Mafia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the vendettas of rival Italian syndicates--and it is no longer clear who is a friend or foe.

The Black Hand

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Richard Stark

Payback 

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Leonard Shengold

The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation

To abuse or neglect a child, to deprive the child of his or her own identity and ability to experience joy in life, is to commit soul murder. Soul murder is the perpetration of brutal or subtle acts against children that result in their emotional bondage to the abuser and, finally, in their psychic and spiritual annihilation. In this compelling, disturbing, and superbly readable book, Dr. Leonard Shengold, clinical professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, explores the devastating psychological effects of this trauma inflicted on a shocking number of children.

Drawing on a lifetime of clinical experience and wide-ranging reading in world literature, Dr. Shengold examines the ravages of soul murder in the adult lives of his patients as well as in the lives and works of such seminal writers as George Orwell, Dickens, Chekhov, and Kipling. One hopeful note in this saga of pain is that a terrible childhood can, if survived, be a source of strength, as Dr. Shengold finds in the cases of Dickens and Orwell.

Provocatively original in its approach to literature and psychology, unsettling in its vivid portrayal of the darker side of human nature, far-reaching in its conclusions, Soul Murder will stand alongside such works as Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child as one of the most important studies of the psyche to appear in decades.

Soul Murder

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A book to celebrate the Consciousness of Whales and Dolphins

Mind In the Waters

Pip Williams

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A moving and immersive debut: when a team of scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters starts a parallel book containing all the "objectionable" words the men choose to omit.

The Dictionary of Lost Words

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Marie Benedict

Victoria Christopher Murray

The life and secrets of JP Morgan’s personal librarian

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! "Historical fiction at its best!"* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white--her complexion is dark because she is African American. The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to--for the protection of her family and her legacy--to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.

The Personal Librarian

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Merav Mack

Benjamin Balint

édéric Brenner

City of the Book

A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem's literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself--perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety--comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

Jerusalem

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Elaine Sciolino

In excellent condition; a great history of Paris

The River That Made Paris

Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea, and the cities, tributaries, islands, ports, and bridges in between.Sciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river's light. She discovers the story of Sequana--the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name--and follows the river through Paris, where it determined the city's destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art, literature, music, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019.A "storyteller at heart" (June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune) with a "sumptuous eye for detail" (Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph), Sciolino braids memoir, travelogue, and history through the Seine's winding route. The Seine offers a love letter to Paris and the most romantic river in the world, and invites readers to explore its magic for themselves.

The Seine

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Ellen Stimson

How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont Raising Children

In self-deprecating and hilarious fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimson's transition from city living to rickety Vermont farmhouse. When she decides she wants to own and operate the old-fashioned village store in idyllic Dorset, pop. 2,036, one of the oldest continually operating country stores in the country, she learns the hard way that "improvements" are not always welcomed warmly by folks who like things just fine the way they'd always been. She dreams of patrons streaming in for fresh-made sandwiches and an old-timey candy counter, but she learns they're boycotting the store. Why? "The bread," they tell her, "you moved the bread from where it used to be." Can the citified newcomer turn the tide of mistrust before she ruins the business altogether? Follow the author to her wit's end and back, through her full immersion into rural life--swapping high heels for muck boots; raising chickens and sheep; fighting off skunks, foxes, and bears; and making a few friends and allies in a tiny town steeped in history, local tradition, and that dyed-in-the-wool Vermont "character."

Mud Season

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Maggie Gee

Virginia Woolf travels to modern day New York City

Virginia Woolf, restored to life in contemporary Manhattan, is amazed at modern attitudes to freedom, love, sex, bookselling and literature

Virginia Woolf in Manhattan

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Sohla El-Waylly

Silvia Killingsworth

Essay collection with food as the starting point

A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. 

Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.

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Franny Moyle

The King's Painter

Cynthia Manson, editor

Christmas Crimes

E. Foxwell & M. Greenberg, editors

More Murder, They Wrote

Carolyn Wheat, Editor

Murder on Route 66

Joan Hess, Editor

Funny Bones

Thomas Godfrey, Editor

Murder for Christmas Volume II

H. Greenberg, I. Asimov, C-L Rossel Waugh, Editors

The Twelve Crimes of Christmas

LM Montgomery

Anne of Windy Poplars

LM Montgomery

Anne of the Island

Alice Munro

The Moons of Jupiter

Alice Munro

The Progress of Love

John Mortimer

The Best of Rumpole

LeJoy & Chaliha editors

Reaching Out in Love

Will Thomas

The Black Hand

Donald Westlake as Richard Stark

Payback

Leonard Shengold

Soul Murder

Joan McIntyre, editor

Mind In the Waters

Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Marie Benedict; Victoria Christopher Murray

The Personal Librarian

Merav Mack; Benjamin Balint; édéric Brenner

Jerusalem

Elaine Sciolino

The Seine

Ellen Stimson

Mud Season

Maggie Gee

Virginia Woolf in Manhattan

Sohla El-Waylly; Silvia Killingsworth

The Best American Food Writing 2022

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