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IF YOU DIDN’T BRING JERKY, WHAT DID I JUST EAT? (Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing and the Wilds of Suburbia)

Author Bill Healy has done it again with his hilarious dispatches about his life as an enthusiastic, if not hapless, outdoorsman who lives in suburbia. Bill offer’s useful tips on: Why children make perfect hunting decoys; why you should always sleep in camp with your pants on; and how to cook your brain with hand warmers!!! Bill writes for Field and Stream magazine and as one reader put it so well “It’s not often that, in one page a writer can lead you on a roller coaster of emotion’s. Healy does just that.

$14.00 ISB-N: 978-0802143952

BROTHERS IN BATTLE, BEST OF FRIENDS by William Guarnere and Edward Heffron with Robyn Post and forward by Actor Tom Hanks

In this new book, Post has compiled the transcripts of her interviews to provide a personal history of the 101st Airborne Division's Easy Company, as well as the soldiers' own stories of growing up and growing old. Switching off between the two within chapters, Post allows Guarnere and Heffron to share narration duties as they recount their, their induction into Easy Company (Guarnere was there for the company's formation; Heffron joined after D-Day) and their work in it, from the disastrous Operation Market Garden to the frozen hell of Bastogne.

$15.00 ISB-N: 0425217280

THE CHESS MACHINE by Robert Lohr.

Set in 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen of Hungary, anxious to win the favor of Empress Maria Theresia, builds an engineering marvel: the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton. The Turk, though, isn't exactly as it seems; hidden inside is Italian chess prodigy (and dwarf) Tibor Scardenelli, hired by Kempelen to secretly control the contraption during its debut match in front of the empress, the most elaborate and successful parlor trick of the 18th and 19th centuries. The game is on for chess and suspense fans alike!!!

$15.00 ISB-N: 978-0143114369

THE SHARPER YOUR KNIFE THE LESS YOU CRY

Author Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been eliminated. Ignoring her mother's advice Flinn instead cleared out her savings and moved to Paris to pursue a dream-a diploma from the famed Le Cordon Bleu. This is the touching and remarkably funny account of Flinn's transformation as she moves through the school's intense program and falls deeply in love along the way. Flinn interweaves more than two-dozen recipes with a unique look inside Le Cordon Bleu amid battles with demanding chefs, competitive classmates, and her "wretchedly inadequate" French. Flinn offers a vibrant portrait of Paris, one in which the sights and sounds of the city's street markets and purveyors come alive in rich detail.

$15.00 ISB-N: 978-0670018222

EXTREME PUMPKINS 11

Based on his popular and addictive website ExtremePumpkins.com, Tom Nardone has created a full-color guide to pumpkin carving that's truly frightening. Featuring the website's signature Puking Pumpkin, and spanning everything from Drowning Pumpkin, Crime Scene Pumpkin, and Cannibal Pumpkin to electrocuted Pumpkin and other never-before-seen designs, this gleefully gory guide is nothing short of a manifesto to take back Halloween from the cheerful, and the cutesy. This is for the egg throwing, toilet tissue- streaming, and window-soaping teenager in all of us, finally- a whole new way to celebrate October 31.

$13.95 ISB-N: 978-1557885227

WHAT EINSTEIN TOLD HIS COOK by Robert L Wolke or Martha Stewart with a PHD as he is known, is ready to answer the best everyday questions…. why is red meat red? How do they decaffeinate coffee? Do you wish you understood the science of foods, but don't want to plow through dry technical books? What Einstein Told His Cook is like having a scientist at your side to answer your questions in plain, no technical terms.

$15.00 ISB-N: 978-0393329421

THE SECOND CIVIL WAR by Ronald Brownstein

Few people would dispute that the politics of Washington are as polarized today as they have been in decades. The question Ronald Brownstein poses in this provocative book is whether what he calls “extreme partisanship” is simply a result of the tactics of recent party leaders, or whether it is an enduring product of a systemic change in the structure and behavior of the political world. Brownstein, formerly the chief political correspondent for The Los Angeles Times and now the political director of the Atlantic Media Company, gives considerable credence to both explanations. But the most important part of “The Second Civil War” — and the most debatable — is his claim that the current political climate is the logical, perhaps even inevitable, result of a structural change that stretched over a generation.

$17.00 ISB-N: 1594201390

DESCARTES’ BONES by Russell Shorto

On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France. The question is, Why? And the answer lies in Descartes’ famous phrase: Cogito ergo sum—"I think, therefore I am." Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. Fascinating read!!!

$26.00 ISB-N: 978-0385517539

THE FIRE by Katherine Neville

Katherine’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago. Now the electrifying global adventure continues, in Neville’s long anticipated sequel: THE FIRE. Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family’s ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother’s birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of strategically placed clues, followed swiftly by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious assortment of houseguests, indicates that something sinister is afoot.

$26.00 ISB-N: 978-0345500670