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Daedalus Books
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Long considered a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald (1915–83) infused new life into the hardboiled detective genre with psychologically complex mysteries involving his intuitive and empathetic private eye Lew Archer. This omnibus presents three of Macdonald's best Archer novels. The Ivory Grin (a.k.a. Marked for Murder) begins when a wealthy woman hires Archer to track down a maid she suspects of stealing her jewelry. The Zebra-Striped Hearse finds Archer investigating a rich man's prospective son-in-law, and in The Underground Man Archer tracks a missing child and uncovers a secret history of wayward parents and wounded offspring. |
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One of the most successful and beloved of Victorian fairy tales, George Macdonald's The Princess and the Goblin tells the story of young Princess Irene and her friend Curdie, who must outwit the threatening goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home. Macdonald's pioneering use of fanstasy as a literary medium had a great influence on Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle, all great admirers of his work, which has remained popular to this day. I write, not for children, he wrote, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. |
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Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads between the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed. A series of sketches that together form a blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, Between the Assassinations, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of The White Tiger, enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today. |
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«Celebrated in the wake of the 1917 Russian Revolution but later repressed by the Stalinist regime, Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich was an inventive artist who experimented with various Post-Impressionist styles like cubism and fauvism before abandoning representational art altogether, creating a style of geometric shapes and blocks of color that he called «Suprematism». Four images — two early works and two later ones — decorate these notecards. The handsomely boxed set contains 20 cards and 20 envelopes.» |
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Now recognized as one of the great photographers of the 19th century, British army officer Linnaeus Tripe (1822–1902) captured superb images of antiquities, temples, palaces, and landscapes in India and Burma in the 1850s. These notecards are decorated with his richly toned images of pillars and the Great Pagoda in Madura, the Great Pagoda in Tanjore, and the Maha-too-lo-Bounghian-Kyoung palace in Amerapoora. The handsomely boxed set contains 20 cards and 20 envelopes. |
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In the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, Charles Gould's San Tomé silver mine is besieged by rebels, in this 1904 novel by the author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Gould recruits the allegedly incorruptible hero Nostromo to oppose the marauders, but Nostromo's own mistakes may have disastrous repercussions. Conrad's novel portrays in shocking detail the corrupting influence of money, the devious effects of greed, and the lure of silver and its power over men — destroying some and revealing the strengths of others. |
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Rendering the horror of a zombie apocalypse in the restrained language of Pride and Prejudice — as well as in the gruesome paintings of Robert Parada — this wall calendar carries forth the humor of Seth Grahame-Smith's dead-on sendup of Jane Austen's comedy of manners. A different calamity is depicted for each month. |
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«Inspired by the poem «The Hound of Heaven» by Francis Thompson, as well as by Carl Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious, classically trained artist R.H. Ives Gammell created a series of paintings he called The Hound of Heaven, full of symbolism and powerful imagery. Four panels from the series illuminate this assortment. The full-sized notecards are presented in a keepsake box with envelopes.» |
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The curious and intrepid editor of Edinburgh's Review of Applied Ethics returns, this time to ponder the philosophical implications of love. In this third outing for Isabel Dalhousie in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, her American cousin introduces her to Dallas bigwig Tom Bruce and his fiancée. Isabel cannot suppress her intuition that the girl is marrying Tom for his money, and begins snooping in spite of herself. Should Isabel say something — especially since Tom seems to have taken a fancy to her — or is she ethically obliged to mind her own romantic house, and her growing feelings for her friend Jamie? |
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«Ewetopia the sheep thinks she has finally hit upon the costume that will get her noticed at the Woolyones Costume Ball: she'll come dressed as a wolf. Unfortunately, this doesn't earn her any points with the rest of the sheep, who find such a thing in rather poor taste. And yet, in this topsy-turvy fairytale for readers 6 to 8, Ewetopia does find a dance partner in a tall, attractive sheep at the ball — but why would a sheep come dressed as a sheep? And why does he keep calling her «Mom?» |
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This compact journal — just 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches closed, in a flexible black cover — is perfect for tucking away in a pocket or purse, yet can still accommodate a copious amount of information. With a sewn binding, ledger stock paper, and super-thin rules (about four lines to the inch), as well as an expanding pocket, elastic closure band, and ribbon marker, this journal encourages industrious, no-fuss writing. |
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«Mirror-image twins Julia and Valentina seem to be going nowhere in life, in this second novel from the author of The Time Traveler's Wife, until a packet arrives at their Chicago home. Their aunt Elspeth — their mother's twin, whom they never knew — has died and left them her London flat. Once there, the girls find their aunt's obsessive-compulsive neighbor Martin, who writes crossword puzzles, and her grief-stricken lover Robert, who is writing a history of next-door Highgate Cemetery. Then they meet Elpseth herself, now a disembodied spirit, and find that she is still very much a part of the living world. Audrey Niffenegger's deliciously gothic ghost tale is full of obsessive and possessive loves, exchanged lives and traded souls. «The endurance of love animates this gothic story set in and around Highgate Cemetery, in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her estate, including an apartment overlooking the graveyard, to the twin daughters of her twin sister, from whom she has been estranged for twenty years... Audrey Niffenegger has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secrets to be found in Elspeth's diaries and the lengths to which she will go to reunite with her younger lover. It's no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected».» |
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Presented in a large picture-book format with moving features — opening flaps, pull-tab actions, miniature books and hidden documents — this retelling of Treasure Island, for readers 7 to 10, captures the excitement and adventure of Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal pirate tale. The book also includes a game board and play pieces, so youngsters can make their own pursuit of Captain Flint's fabulous treasure. |
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Are you a cat lover? A dog person? Either way, this book is for you Read about how your favorite companion came to be a pet and how its body works. Then, flip the book over and find out about the other kind. Once again Steve Jenkins takes children's nonfiction to a new level. Here is an amazing book filled with great information, visual facts, and lots of animal history. The illustrations are so incredibly realistic, you'll want to pet them. |
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The tortoise and the hare seem old friends on the cover of this journal, as the turtle kicks his heels and the rabbit looks on. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages — lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left. |
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Exquisitely produced — bound in sandalwood linen and presented in a matching linen case with a button-tie closure and stamped Chinese yin mark — this album offers a vivid impression of pre-World War II China. Stanley Gamble, the grandson of the co-founder of Proctor & Gamble, took three extended journeys through China from 1917 to 1932. His surveys of life in Beijing and rural northern China included the remarkable photographs reproduced here, paired with Chinese poetry. |
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Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore. Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti's work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before. |
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Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur held court with his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Poor Givret, who is easily the shortest man at court, bears the brunt of their jokes. But what he lacks in stature, Givret makes up for in brains — and before he knows it, his quick thinking has landed him a place at the famous Round Table And so beginneth the exciting and funny adventures of Sir Givret the Short, Brilliant, and Marvelous. |
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Though considerably toned down for readers 7 to 10, this visual treatment of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula remains largely true to the original story, with journal entries, clippings, and news articles augmenting the action and sidebars with helpful techniques for how to spot, capture, and kill a vampire. Solicitor Jonathan Harker is menaced in Transylvania by his new client, Count Dracula; the Count makes his way to England and turns Lucy Westenra into a vampire; and Mina Harker, Dracula's next victim, wavers between her vampire and human self before helping Jonathan and Van Helsing kill the Count. The book includes several practical inserted elements, including a travel guide to Transylvania (with hilarious ads for products like neck protectors), a pullout map of Dracula's castle, and a pop-out horde of bloodthirsty rats, as well as a playable board game of the race to Dracula's castle. |
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«The Constant Gardener» is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle — young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well. A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In «The Constant Gardener» he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle — amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat — discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.» |
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