From the Cataloguer's Desktop
Just a mini-list. But I HAD to post it ... I think the cataloguing gods were monitoring some of last night's conversation on fairy tales, 'cause I had a couple of goodies in today's batch o' books. :-) A couple of quirky fiction titles for you as well, due to helping out with another library this week.
Sweetness & Light : The Mysterious History of the Honeybee, by Hattie Ellis.
A View from the Eye of the Storm : Terror and Reason in the Middle East, by Haim Harari.
The Devil's Broker : Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy, by Frances Stonor Saunders.
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne.
Living With a Writer, edited by Dale Salwak.
Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and Why We Let It Happen, by Wade Rowland.
Garlic and Sapphires : The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, by Ruth Reichl.
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, by Kim Harrison.
What Do You Say To A Naked Elf?, by Cheryl Sterling.
My Demon's Kiss, by Lucy Blue. Thrown in because Johnny Depp is mentioned in the acknowledgments ... I'll let you figure out why. ;-)
The Annotated Brothers Grimm, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, edited by Maria Tatar.
Burned Alive : a Victim of the Law of Men, by Souad.
Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, a new translation by Tiina Nunnally, edited by Jackie Wullschlager.
White Gold : The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves, by Giles Milton.
The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda,Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff.
Ghosting : a Double Life, by Jennie Erdal.
Sweetness & Light : The Mysterious History of the Honeybee, by Hattie Ellis.
A View from the Eye of the Storm : Terror and Reason in the Middle East, by Haim Harari.
The Devil's Broker : Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy, by Frances Stonor Saunders.
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne.
Living With a Writer, edited by Dale Salwak.
Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and Why We Let It Happen, by Wade Rowland.
Garlic and Sapphires : The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, by Ruth Reichl.
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, by Kim Harrison.
What Do You Say To A Naked Elf?, by Cheryl Sterling.
My Demon's Kiss, by Lucy Blue. Thrown in because Johnny Depp is mentioned in the acknowledgments ... I'll let you figure out why. ;-)
The Annotated Brothers Grimm, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, edited by Maria Tatar.
Burned Alive : a Victim of the Law of Men, by Souad.
Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, a new translation by Tiina Nunnally, edited by Jackie Wullschlager.
White Gold : The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves, by Giles Milton.
The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda,Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff.
Ghosting : a Double Life, by Jennie Erdal.