Falcon FeverWhat is so compelling about falconry? Tim Gallagher mines his lifelong obsession with falcons for an answer in this engaging volume interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue. An entire subculture exists outside the mainstream of American society consisting of obsessed individuals (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and film writer Tony Huston among them) who still use the ancient training techniques and language of falconry. Gallagher finds that his personal

Flora loves Christmas more than anything else in the world

” —Time Out New York

a camp of neo-Nazis plotting their resurgence from a nearby mountain hollow

By following ninety-three witty

and haunting debut

has been a meeting place for those who love books for the past fourteen years

In the course of a brilliant career Matthews has also translated poems from French

and Merlin’s magical treasure are in the clutches of the evil Saxons

he finds himself and his horse

’ Susan Lewis

who has secrets of her own

and a hero nobody sees coming