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Gift Books

1. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

   Diane Ackerman

   2008 Orion Book Award
   
   The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More

2. 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

3. 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

4. Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee

   Allen Barra

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

5. The Annotated Wizard of Oz

   L. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, W. W. Denslow, Et Al.

   A Centennial Edition

   The "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is the quintessential American fairy tale, but it is also a controversial children's book.More

6. Mexican Everyday

   Rick Bayless, Deann Groen Bayless, Christopher Hirsheimer

   At last, a cookbook that brings Mexican food within easy reach: named to Food & Wine Magazine’s Year’s 25 Best Cookbooks as part of its annual Best of the Best cookbook.More

7. Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937

   Todd Brandow, William A. Ewing

   The most extensive collection of Steichen's legendary Vogue and Vanity Fair work ever brought to the public.More

8. The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

   Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner

   The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner.More

9. Loverboys

   Ana Castillo

   “Seductive ... full of infectious vigor ... these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”—New York Times Book ReviewMore

10. 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

11. The Glass of Time: A Novel

    Michael Cox

    “Entirely wonderful . . . chock-full of revenge, romance, duplicity, concealed identities and murder most frequent.”—Washington PostMore

12. Waterbirds

    Theodore Cross

    The book John James Audubon would have made if he had used a camera.More

13. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb

    R. Crumb

    Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: From Creation to the death of Joseph, here are all 50 chapters of the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before.More

14. Erotic Poems

    E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage

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

15. My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives

    Michael J. Diamond

    A powerful depiction of the unexplored reciprocal relationship between fathers and sons.More