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Birds Out of Time

The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes

by Peter Matthiessen, with paintings and drawings by Robert Bateman


‘Cowboys and Indians’

Anthony Blunt: His Lives

by Miranda Carter


The Woman Who Rode Away

Beasts

by Joyce Carol Oates


Welch’s Juice

Jack: Straight from the Gut

by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne


Mystery Man

In a “clues” novel, everything depends on who is where; in a Dashiell Hammett one, it was more likely to be who was who: disguises and false names were used, dark mean streets were prowled, cars were driven at speed, people blew in from elsewhere and hid out and skipped town.

The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921–1960

edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett, and with a foreword by Josephine Hammett Marshall

Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers

by Jo Hammett, edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett

Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings

selected and edited by Steven Marcus


The Fastest Killer

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82

by Elizabeth A. Fenn

Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox

by Jonathan B. Tucker


New Kind on the Block

New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890–1940

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price


The Land of the Naked Cowboy

Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon

by Lynne B. Sagalyn


King of High & Low

Black House

by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Dreamcatcher

by Stephen King

Stephen King's Rose Red

by Stephen King

The Essential Stephen King

by Stephen J. Spignesi


The Modest Maestro

Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere

by Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky


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