As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will witness the making of history from its edge, dressing in the flamboyant fashions of each day, following passing customs, and socialising with celebrated artists and writers. Orlando’s journey will also be an internal one – he is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation, Orlando is a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science – $285
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes‘s thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science—an era whose consequences are with us still.
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from Ouspensky’s Meetings – $225
The Fourth Way is a guide for those who seek a true way of inner growth under conditions open to the men and women of today. The Fourth Way is a guide for those who seek a true way of inner growth under conditions open to the men and women of today.
The Return of the Dancing Master – $175

- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: CCV (June 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099541882
Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted, constantly pursued by ‘demons’. He has no close friends, no close neighbours, and by the time his body is eventually found, Molin is almost unrecognisable. Lindman, a police officer on extended sick leave, hears of the death of his former colleague and, to take his mind off his own problems, decides to involve himself in the case. What he discovers, to his horror and disbelief, is a network of evil almost unimaginable in this remote district, and one which seems impossible to link to Molin’s death.
Hidden Agendas – $230

- Paperback: 704 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 1st PAPERBACK edition (1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099741512
This book is not only a call to an authentic consciousness that has the courage to sees things the way they really are. It’s also an inspiring call to action. Read it.
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration – $240

- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; First Edition edition (May 7, 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679732276
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History – $85

- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 1st Thus. edition (July 11, 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0375708278
Torqued by drama and taut with suspense, this absorbing narrative of the 1900 hurricane that inundated Galveston, Tex., conveys the sudden, cruel power of the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Told largely from the perspective of Isaac Cline, the senior U.S. Weather Bureau official in Galveston at the time, the story considers an era when “the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself.” As barometers plummet and wind gauges are plucked from their moorings, Larson (Lethal Passage) cuts cinematically from the eerie “eyewall” of the hurricane to the mundane hubbub of a lunchroom moments before it capitulates to the arriving winds, from the neat pirouette of Cline’s house amid rising waters to the bridge of the steamship Pensacola, tossed like flotsam on the roiling seas. Most intriguingly, Larson details the mistakes that led bureau officials to dismiss warnings about the storm, which killed over 6000 and destroyed a third of the island city. The government’s weather forecasting arm registered not only temperature and humidity but also political climate, civic boosterism and even sibling rivalries. America’s patronizing stance toward Cuba, for instance, shut down forecasts from Cuban meteorologists, who had accurately predicted the Galveston storm’s course and true scale, even as U.S. weather officials issued mollifying bulletins calling for mere rain and high winds. Larson expertly captures the power of the storm itself and the ironic, often catastrophic consequences of the unpredictable intersection of natural force and human choice.
Enduring Love – $100

- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 8th edition (1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0676971393
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples – $150

- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Vintage (May 2, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099286750
An account of the ecological history of North America over the last 65 million years, from the arrival of the largest asteroid ever to hit the Earth, through the evolution of North America’s landscape, mountains, forests, prairies, volcanoes, and rivers, its climate and flora and fauna, and the Burgess shale, through the story of the Native Americans to the arrival of the European invaders.



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