A new Gun Book! (and some other stuff)

Non Fiction

Gun: a visual history. This is a DK publication which means the photography and graphic design are excellent. Wheellocks, flintlocks, percussion caps, pinfires, machine guns, etc.

Learn to Draw in a Weekend by Richard Taylor. Step-by-step exercises using basic geometric shapes show you how to get started or improve your drawing ability.

101 Great Things to Do with Your Digital Camera by Simon Joinson. "Fascinating, useful, inventive and original ways to make the most of your digital camera."

Hiking With Kids: taking those first steps with young hikers, 2nd Edition by Robin Tawney Nichols. Learn how to select the correct gear, fun activities on the trail, trail etiquette and safety and first aid.

Fiction

Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke. Dave Robicheaux gets deployed from Iberia Parish to patrol New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina hits. New Orleans is reduced to a medieval society with no power grid and no legal authorities. Amidst the devastation and turmoil Dave is after a serial rapist and a dangerous vigilante.

AudioBooks

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje.A father and two teen daughters work their California farm with a male farmhand. After a violent episode, the characters are followed along as they try and leave peacefully.

Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child. Jack Reacher has been 'off the grid' fro ten years no. He has no license, back account, telephone and no address. When a former Army colleague is able to find him, Reacher hears that his former Army investigative team is being killed off.

Crashing Through: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see by Robert Kurson, Blinded when three years old Mike May was already greatly successfull professionally and socially. When he hears of a stem cell treatment that may renew his sight he tries it out.

The Not So Big Life by Sarah Susanka. Susanka's bestselling Not So Big House books revealed a living philosophy through architecture. Now, Susanka directly addresses the "less is truly more" way of living.