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Gift Books

1. Mirrors: Reflections of Style

   Paula Phipps

   A survey of the history, forms, stylistic range, and use of mirrors in interior design.More

2. Exploring Gardens & Green Spaces: From Connecticut to the Delaware Valley

   Magda Salvesen

   An illustrated guidebook to a rich array of 148 designed landscapes along the Northeast Corridor.More

3. Salvage Secrets: Transforming Reclaimed Materials into Design Concepts

   Joanne Palmisano, Susan Teare

   A striking how-to guide and four-color visual tour presenting design possibilities using a range of salvaged materials.More

4. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

   Paul Dickson, Skip McAfee

   Third Edition

   The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal).More

5. Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court

   Jeff Shesol

   "A stunning work of history."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals More

6. The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

   J. G. Ballard, Martin Amis

   A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard.More

7. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

   Michael Lewis

   The New York Times bestseller: “Hilarious. No mushy tribute to the joys of fatherhood, Lewis’ book addresses the good, the bad, and the merely baffling about having kids.”—Boston GlobeMore

8. American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

   Edmund S. Morgan

   “A wise, humane and beautifully written book.”—Bret Stephens, Wall Street JournalMore

9. Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee

   Allen Barra

   “Allen Barra brings a legendary figure from the true golden age of baseball to life.”—Bob CostasMore

10. Erotic Poems

    E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage

    E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume.More

11. The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present

    Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Et Al.

    Three thousand years of the greatest Greek poetry, exquisitely translated and assembled in a handsome volume sure to be a modern classic.More

12. Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

    Diana Athill

    Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro).More

13. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

    Daniyal Mueenuddin

    Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. “The rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri.”—Financial TimesMore

14. Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table, a Collection of Essays from the New York Times

    Amanda Hesser

    “Draws with literary aplomb the correlation of what and how we eat to who we are.”—Austin ChronicleMore

15. Seven Days in the Art World

    Sarah Thornton

    Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Times and The Sunday Times [London]: “An indelible portrait of a peculiar society.”—VogueMore