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The Dead Season: A Mystery in Florence (Pegasus Crime)

by Christobel Kent

Published: 2012-09-05

Hardcover: 432 pages

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"Kent combines rich atmospherics and fully realized characters with a deceptively simple puzzle in her outstanding mysteries featuring Italian PI Sandro Cellini."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat. But this year the heatwave is fie...

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The Cold Cold Ground (The Troubles Trilogy, Book 1)

by Adrian Mckinty

Published: 2012-11-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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Spring 1981. Northern Ireland. Belfast on the verge of outright civil war. The Thatcher government has flooded the area with soldiers, but nightly there are riots, bombings, and sectarian attacks. In the midst of the chaos, Sean Duffy, a young, witty, Catholic detective in the almost entir...

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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

by Dan Jones

Published: 2013-04-18

Hardcover: 560 pages

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“Outstanding . . . A thrilling history of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery and brutal warfare.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem...

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Austrian Cooking and Baking

by Gretel Beer

Published: 1975-06-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Over 300 authentic recipes offer the best in Austrian home cooking: beef broth with dumplings, potato soup, kalbsgulash, four kinds of schnitzel, and more, including 171 dessert recipes — apricot dumplings, Linzertorte, Sachertorte, apple strudel, and much more.

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An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

Published: 1996-02-13

Paperback: 327 pages

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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as bril...

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Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach

by Steven Gaines

Published: 2009-12-29

Paperback: 296 pages

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From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture.Created ...

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Bitter River (Bell Elkins Novels)

by Julia Keller

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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In the next stunning novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Julia Keller, following the popular A Killing in the Hills, a pregnant teenager is found murdered at the bottom of a river.Phone calls before dawn are never good news. And when you’re the county’s prosecuting attorney, calls fr...

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Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park (Vintage Departures)

by Marie Winn

Published: 1999-03-30

Paperback: 352 pages

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Updated Edition—Ten Years LaterThe scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's fabled Central Park. There an odd and amiable band of nature lovers devote themselves to observing and protecting the park's rich wildlife. Wh...

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Oink: My Life with Mini-Pigs

by Matt Whyman

Published: 2011-02-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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What happens when a man wonders aloud if a pig would make a good pet? A great deal - once his wife discovers a kind the size of a handbag. Matt Whyman is a writer and house husband. He enjoys the quiet life. His career wife, Emma, prefers the chaos a big brood can bring. On top of four challenging children,...

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Imagine How Creativity Works

by Jonah Lehrer

Published: 2012

Hardcover: 304 pages

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