May 14 2008
Autographed Books
Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them
by Heather Hansen and her co-author Kimberly Lisagor, $12.76 (20% off $15.95)
Presents cherished, world-wide “wild and sublime places.” The places selected include treasured cities such as Venice and Timbuktu, as well as endangered natural areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Great Barrier Reef. Disappearing Destinations is a unique mix of armchair travel, natural history, and remarkably practical information for eco-tourists.
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Cost
by Roxana Robinson, $25.00
In an attempt to save her son, Julia marshals help from her looseknit clan: elderly parents; remarried ex-husband; removed sister; and combative eldest son. Ultimately, heroin courses through the characters’ lives with an impersonal and devastating energy, sweeping the family into a world in which deceit, crime, and fear are part of daily life.
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Italy, the Romagnoli Way: A Culinary Journey
by G. Franco Romagnoli, $19.96 (20% off $24.95)
Rome native G. Franco Romagnoli first introduced American television viewers to Italian cooking back in the 1970s, when he starred with his late wife Margaret on two television series for PBS-TV, including “The Romagnolis’ Table.” The first cooking show of its kind led the couple to national fame, during which they wrote nine cookbooks, toured the world giving cooking demonstrations, and opened several restaurants in the Boston area.
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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
by Moying Li, $16.00
This inspiring memoir follows Moying Li from age 12 to 22, illuminating a complex, dark time in China’s history as it tells the compelling story of one girl’s difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution.
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Crescent City Cooking: Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer’s New Orleans
by Susan Spicer $28.00 (20% off $35.00)
One of New Orleans’s brightest culinary stars, Susan Spicer has been indulging Crescent City diners at her highly acclaimed restaurants, Bayona and Herbsaint, for years. Now, in her long-awaited cookbook, Spicer–an expert at knocking cuisine off its pedestal with a healthy dash of hot sauce, and at elevating comfort food to the level of the sublime–brings her signature dishes to the home cook’s table.
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George III: A Life in Caricature
by Kenneth Baker
The misfortunes and missteps of the “last King of America” told through the cartoons of the day. George III enjoyed one of the longest reigns in English history (1760-1820) at a time when both England and the world were undergoing drastic changes.Among George’s enemies were some of the wittiest artists of any age, and few took the trouble to be fair. This was the way the English nation saw its king, adding a new dimension to what is ultimately a tragic story.
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Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
by Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick, $26.95
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln had only three meetings, but their exchanges profoundly influenced the course of slavery and the outcome of the Civil War.
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus
by Joshua Kendall, $25.95
The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary “Thesaurus,” Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado-was a complicated man.
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Mothers and Sons: Stories
by Colm Toibin, Hardcover $24.00 and Paperback $14.00
Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another.
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Walking the Gobi: 16,000 Mile-Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
by Helen Thayer, $19.16 (20% off $23.95)
At the age of 63, Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her 74-year-old husband Bill and two camels, Tom and Jerry, Thayer walked 1600 miles in 126-degree temperatures, battling fierce sandstorms, dehydration, dangerous drug smugglers, and ubiquitous scorpions. For more than 60 days Helen struggled to keep moving through this inhospitable terrain despite a severe leg injury. Without sponsors, a support team, or radio contact, hers is a journey of pure discovery and adventure.
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When Asia Was the World
by Stewart Gordon, $20.80 (20% off $26.00)
While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion.
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Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
by Loree Griffin Burns, $18.00
Aided by an army of beachcombers, oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science. Curt, along with a community of scientists, friends, and beachcombers alike, is using his data to understand and protect our ocean.
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A New England Autumn: A Sentimental Journey
photographs by Ferenc Maté, $39.95
This magnificent collection of photographs is a journey through back roads and hidden corners of America’s idyllic and beloved region. Each scene, suffused with color and light, brings a moment of private discovery and awakens a sense of home.
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Ghost Sea
by Ferenc Maté, $13.95
Based on a true story, this novel reaches its thrilling climax at the last secret, hallucinatory potlatch of the ancient Kwakiutl culture, where the history of a doomed people is melded with the fury of three hearts.
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Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design, $49.95
This expertly researched book makes a radical case for accessible public art that fosters a powerful civic experience of connection to place. The author advocates narrative, site-specific public art that engages the popular imagination through common references to history, folklore, culture and geography, and demonstrates how the integration of approachable art with local landscape, architecture and urban design can facilitate identification with locale.
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The Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal
by Peter Thomson, $23.96 (20% off $29.95)
Following a difficult divorce, veteran environmental journalist Peter Thomson sets off from Boston with his younger brother for one of nature’s most remarkable creations, in one of the farthest corners of the planet.
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Special Places on Cape Cod
by Robert Finch, $19.95
For over thirty years, nature writer Robert Finch has tramped the sandy, wooded reaches of Cape Cod’s natural landscape. Over that time, the Cape has changed, as developers have encroached ever further on beach, marsh, wood, and meadow. The essays collected in Special Places were written in 1998-2002 to focus attention on the Cape Cod Land Bank Act, which authorized Cape towns to use a small portion of their property taxes to acquire open space and conserve it.
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Primal Place
by Robert Finch, $16.95
From acclaimed author and naturalist Robert Finch, a richly detailed observance of Cape Cod’s seemingly vanished natural and human past, as it clings to its present landscape.
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Common Ground: A Naturalist’s Cape Cod
by Robert Finch, $10.95
This is a book about beginnings, or landfalls, in a place by the sea that has been explored, settled, visited, studied, and written about more than almost any other stretch of the North American coastline. The focus of these essays is a personal response to the changing face of this curved peninsula, keeping in touch with the place where one lives.
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Death of the Hornet
by Robert Finch, $15.00
Death of a Hornet is Robert Finch’s elegant rendering of Cape Cod, a sandy, scrub-oaked, tough and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. The pieces in this collection are “natural adventures” that readers of Finch’s previous books have come to expect, as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape’s fragile environment, the experience of livling in one place for a long time, and the relationships between mind, spirit , and nature.
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The Verneys
by Adrian Tinniswood, $35.00
A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint an extraordinarily accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies. “To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century,” Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant new book.
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Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold
by Sheila Hirtle & Marq de Villiers, $25.95
Timbuktu– the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one of mankind’ s treasures.
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Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story
by Maureen Wheeler & Tony Wheeler, $13.56 (20% off 16.96)
The New York Daily News once described Tony and Maureen Wheeler as “the specialists in guiding weird folks to weird places.” And thanks to their relentless spirit of adventure and thirty years of travel publishing, they’ve inspired generations of weirdos and not-so-weirdos to get out there.
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Bad Lands: A Tourist On the Axis of Evil
by Tony Wheeler, $14.95
Bad Lands is an amusing travelogue and social commentary examining nine contrasting countries that are largely closed off from the outside world. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in politics or a skerrick of curiosity about the state of the world today.
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Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930
by Joseph Garver, $60.00
Since British, French, and Dutch colonists vied for the territory we call New England, cartographers have drawn the region to suit their political and commercial goals. Cartographic historian Joseph G. Garver analyzes and illuminates ninety historic maps, connecting them with key developments in New England history and demonstrating how a community’s maps reflect its view of the world.
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Striper Wars
by Dick Russell, $26.95
This is his inspiring account of the people and events responsible for the successful preservation of one of America’s favorite fish and of what has happened since.
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