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What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides) (Hardcover)

By David Allen Sibley

$35.00

ISBN: 9780307957894

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Published: Knopf - April 14th, 2020

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This is simply a beautiful book, and truly a work of art. From the wonderful illustrations, many of them roughly life-size, to the fascinating little essays scattered throughout (“Why don’t woodpeckers get concussions?” is only one of many), this book is a pure delight, and one I will treasure for many years.

 

James

Circe (Hardcover)

By Madeline Miller

$28.00

ISBN: 9780316556347

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Published: Little, Brown and Company - April 10th, 2018

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The value of this book – barely a year old – is already so well established that one feels almost superfluous recommending it. And yet in addition to the cinematic storytelling, the breathtaking power of her writing, the incredible solidity of her mythic figures, and the author’s formidable voice, one drifts through this book with the sense of being privy to a serene wisdom, its effects too enduring not to seek to share. Amidst eternity, quiet as the dawning sun, rising with steady and peaceful assurance, the book’s central question rings out: for what will we risk our hearts?

James

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)

By David W. Blight

$37.50

ISBN: 9781416590316

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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 16th, 2018

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A moving portrait of an extraordinary man, one who could have found his place in the pages of Plutarch. Amidst his “nation of inconsistencies, completely made up of inconsistencies,” Douglass' story endures through the work of a historian writing at the height of his powers.

James

The Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback)

By Robert Burton, William H. Gass (Introduction by)

$29.95

ISBN: 9780940322660

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Published: NYRB Classics - April 30th, 2001

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John Keats’ favorite book – with admirers ranging from Samuel Johnson to Philip Pullman, Laurence Sterne to Samuel Beckett, Washington Irving to Jorge Luis Borges, George Custer to Nick Cave – infinite in its jest, encyclopedic in its scholarship, delightful in its relish for human contradiction and wholehearted in its compassion for our folly, here lies a book for your desert island. Sample a page from the “Mind Rectified by Mirth” (II.119). If you are not convinced, I will say no more. Lætitiae cœlum vos creavit. So live merrily, O my friends.

James