November Features
 With Is It Good for the Jews? Adam Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed collection of stories Two Jews on a Train. Through twenty-nine tales—all finely wrought and rich in humor—Biro spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily life, while simultaneously painting a poignant portrait of a world of unassimilated Jewish life that has largely been lost to the years. Read a story: “In Praise of Anti-Semites.”
 Picking up where her highly popular Headless Males Make Great Lovers left off, tropical field biologist Marty Crump takes us on another voyage of discovery into the world of unusual natural histories, this time focusing on extraordinary interactions involving animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Read an excerpt, “Not Tonight, Honey,” from her new book Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships.
 The Field Museum’s gem collection began with the Tiffany & Co. Exposition Collection at the 1893 World’s Fair and is currently housed in the glittering, newly renovated Grainger Hall of Gems.
Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World by Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn opulently captures the collection’s natural gems and dazzling jewelry. See a birthstone cycle of photographs from the book.
 The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon by Philip Graham is an expanded edition of a popular series originally published on McSweeney’s, an exuberant yet introspective account of a year’s sojourn in Lisbon with his wife and daughter. Graham renders Lisbon from a perspective that varies between wide-eyed and knowing; though he’s unquestionably not a tourist, at the same time he knows he will never be a local. Read “I Don’t Know Why I Love Lisbon.”
 Mark V. Barrow shows in Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology that the threat of species loss has haunted us since the early days of the republic—when the fossil remains of such fantastic lost animals as the mastodon and the woolly mammoth convinced Americans that it was not only possible for entire species to die out, but that humans themselves could be responsible for their extinction. Read an excerpt.
The Great Chicago Book Sale
 Our annual sale catalog features hundreds of general interest, scholarly, and award-winning books at up to 85% off. Find books in history, art, literature, lovely gift editions, fiction at $6, and much more. Use promo code AD9256 to get these low prices online. And some books are in short supply, so order early.
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