McLean & Eakin Booksellers

Charles Harper's Birds and Words by Charles Harper ~ From the Publisher: 'Charley Harper was an American original.  For over 60 years he painted in a style he referred to as minimal realism in his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio.  About his singular style Charley liked to say, "I could never get close enough to count the feathers in the wings, so I just count the wings." '

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson ~ From Bookpage Magazine: "Johnson's book is as elegant as the experiments he features . . . The writing here is lively, mixing bits of biography with the experiments themselves, offering the human element that explains the scientists' motivation as well as the science. Johnson shares personal anecdotes as well as theory in an engaging, compelling style. The result is a little gem of a book, enjoyable to read both as history and science."

The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story by Frances Kiernan ~ From O, The Oprah Magazine: "Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life."

"R.F.K. Must Die!": Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination (Revised Edition) by Robert Blair Kaiser ~ From Playboy: "Recreates the night of Robert Kennedy's murder with a skilled reporter's sensitivity to dramatic detail."

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester ~ From Kirkus Reviews: "Another formidable, absorbing reading experience by versatile Winchester . . . Reflects its subject's passionate interests and makes scholarship positively sexy."

Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag by Michael Tonello ~ From the Publisher: "An American expatriate living in Barcelona gives his hilarious, whirlwind account of the years he spent globetrotting and gaming the Hermes system to buy and resell hundreds of impossible-to-get handbags on the Internet."