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Orwell's Roses (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Solnit

$28.00

ISBN: 9780593083369

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Published: Viking - October 19th, 2021

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That Orwell was a gardener may come as a surprise to many. Even more so the idea, as Solnit so clearly and elegantly shows, his close observation of the natural world and the beauty he found there was central to his humanistic vision and was reflected in all he wrote.

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Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher (Hardcover)

By David R. Godine

$50.00

ISBN: 9781567926767

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Published: David R. Godine Publisher - December 14th, 2021

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One of the distinct pleasures of working in the book business over the many years of my career has been those times I spent perusing the catalogs of David R. Godine and sometimes meeting in a sales call with the man himself. A pleasure because Godine’s offerings were always out of the ordinary and the catalogs themselves were as carefully produced as you knew the books would be. I own many and have sold most of the books described in this celebration. It is a delight to read the backstory of the publishing of not only my favorites but also those I have yet to read and no doubt now will want to.

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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Hardcover)

By Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.

$30.00

ISBN: 9781631498985

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Published: Liveright - September 21st, 2021

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Ellis, in his new one-volume history skillfully manages the large cast of characters and the diplomatic, political and military aspects to tell a compelling story of the American revolution. Informed by a consensus of current scholarship it is both elegantly written and entertaining.

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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)

By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post

$30.00

ISBN: 9781982159009

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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 31st, 2021

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The Pentagon Papers is the obvious inspiration for Whitlock’s title. At first, I was suspect as the length of the book seemed to indicate it was not as encompassing an examination of U.S. involvement in its longest war as it’s model. The Afghanistan Papers, however, brings to light decades of interviews with the actual boots on the ground through the military’s own “Lessons Learned” project. What is compelling clear is that the U.S. took almost nothing from the lessons of our involvement in Vietnam. Once again, year after year, the top brass and our politicians lied about the progress being made in yet another unwinnable war without a clear strategy in a country we never made the effort to understand. Read this book to find out why what is happening in Afghanistan today is not in the least surprising and long ago foreseen.

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Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is (Hardcover)

By Gretel Ehrlich

$26.95

ISBN: 9780307911797

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Published: Pantheon - January 5th, 2021

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Very much a bookend to her first book, the 1985 memoir Solace of Open Spaces set in Wyoming where she came to make her home, Ehrlich’s new work is much darker for she’s witness to the calamitous effects of climate change on the distant places and people she’s come to love over the past decades, from Greenland to Japan to Africa. In the end it’s a book not without hope as it is also a story of resilience , renewal, and once again, love.

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Legends of the Common Stream (Paperback)

By John Hanson Mitchell

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ISBN: 9781625345813

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Published: Bright Leaf - April 30th, 2021

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Mitchell returns to Beaver Brook and the environs of Scratch Flat, the setting for several of his earlier, perhaps best-known works, musing about the myths and legends from a wide range of global traditions that have connected peoples with the land. In passages of pure poetry he once again shows us we need look no further than our own backyard to rekindle that relationship with the natural world.

 

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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)

By Ross King

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ISBN: 9780802158529

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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - April 13th, 2021

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Equally as important in the development of Western culture as the explosion of creativity in the visual arts based on ancient models we now call the Renaissance, was a similar rediscovery and dissemination of classical knowledge in the literary arts. Rich in detail of the political, religious, and commercial culture of this time, King focuses on the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, essential to the creation of this new book culture in Florence as both producer of finely bound manuscripts and bookseller to the patrons of some of the greatest libraries of the day, whose career apex coincides with the development of the printed book that forever changed how knowledge spread across the world.

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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home (Hardcover)

By Alexander Wolff

$28.00

ISBN: 9780802158253

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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - March 2nd, 2021

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Endpapers is a thoroughly captivating book that at first seems to be a family
memoir but is really an extraordinary look at the intellectual milieu of 20th
century German literary culture and its collision with the historical upheavals of the first half of the century. Wolff continues the story postwar delving into the complexities of how those upheavals play out in the dynamics of his own family.

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A Year In Nature: A Memoir of Solace (Paperback)

By Clare Walker Leslie

$24.95

ISBN: 9781733653435

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Published: Green Writers Press - May 7th, 2020

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Cambridge resident Clare Walker Leslie’s latest book is a selection from the nature journals she has kept for many years arranged to follow our year-long journey around our Sun. With her keen eye for observation and delightful sketches and watercolors she inspires us to slow down enough to savor the world around us.

 

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