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  • ERNIE'S ARK
    MONICA WOOD
    The bestselling author of The One-in-a-Million Boy has crafted a story collection that "illuminates the grace in the average and everyday" of a small town ( San Francisco Chronicle). In ten interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, pipefitter, builds a giant ark in his backyard. Ernie was weeks away from a pension-secured retirement when the union w...

    $119.00

  • HOW BASEBALL HAPPENED
    THOMAS W. GILBERT
    The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first bas...

    $229.00

  • THE PHILOSOPHER'S DIET
    RICHARD WATSON
    A philosopher's guide to losing weight, and keeping it off, by embracing a whole new approach to life, by the author of The Philosopher's Demise. In this slim volume, a middle-aged philosopher takes on the weighty double challenge of comprehending an expanding universe while fighting an expanding waistline. Witty, thoughtful, and practical, this is a thinking person's guide to ...

    $119.00

  • WHY WE MAKE THINGS AND WHY IT MATTERS
    PETER KORN
    A furniture maker and author offers a mix of personal memoir and personal philosophy in a book perfect for craftspersons, artisans, and artists. Woodworking, handicrafts—the rewards of creative practice, bringing something new and meaningful into the world through one's own vision, make us fully alive. Peter Korn explains his search for meaning as an Ivy League-educated child o...

    $251.00

  • THE BOSTON RAPHAEL
    BELINDA RATHBONE
    The discovery of a previously unknown painting by an Italian Renaissance master, and how it went from media sensation to career-ending scandal. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afte...

    $251.00

  • ROSEMARY VEREY
    BARBARA PAUL ROBINSON
    The biography of the inspiring woman who found late-in-life success as "a powerhouse of British garden design" ( Booklist). Rosemary Verey was a great English gardening legend. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved international renown. She was the acknowledged apostle of the "English style," on display at her home at Barnsley House, the "must have"...

    $229.00

  • LANCELOT AND THE LORD OF THE DISTANT ISLES
    PATRICIA TERRY / SAMUEL N. ROSENBERG
    A retelling of the thirteenth-century French legend of Lancelot and the mutual love between him and Galehaut, Lord of the Distant Isles. Retellings of the Old French story of King Arthur, Guenevere, and Lancelot have left out a fourth figure amongst these legendary star-crossed lovers, the man who loved the knight, Lancelot. He was Galehaut, a mortal enemy of Arthur, and the in...

    $229.00

  • THE LONELY PHONE BOOTH
    PETER ACKERMAN
    A sad, forgotten, New York City phone booth becomes a hero in this story of community and caring for others. The Phone Booth on the corner of West End Avenue and 100th Street was one of the last remaining phone booths in New York City. Everyone used it―from ballerinas and birthday clowns, to cellists and even secret agents. Kept clean and polished, the Phone Booth was proud and...

    $119.00

  • THE DECLINE AND FALL OF PRACTICALLY EVERYBODY
    WILL CUPPY
    A New York Times–bestselling, comical take on world history from the beloved New Yorker humorist. So, you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Wil...

    $119.00

  • BENEFICENCE
    MEREDITH HALL
    “People stay together, fall apart, come back together, altered. It is a book about work, about grief, about thick ongoing love” from the bestselling author (The Boston Globe). In the midst of a nearly perfect life, Doris Senter is thankful but wary. “We can’t ever know what will come,” she says. When an unimaginable tragedy turns the family of five into a family of four, everyt...

    $229.00