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| Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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Shrabani Basu.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752453644. Daedalus Item Code: 23176 |
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| The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just 24 years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he ... (Read More)
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| Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
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Mary Melvin Petronella, ed.
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| Publisher: Northeastern University Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781555536053. Daedalus Item Code: 30165 |
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| This guidebook to Boston's Victorian heritage provides both walker and armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's wide range of 19th-century landmarks and ... (Read More)
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| The View from Castle Rock
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Alice Munro.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400042821. Daedalus Item Code: 90800 |
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| These dozen stories are not memoirs, nor are they family histories. But they are inspired by Alice Munro's life, and by the lives of her Scottish ancestors, from the title story—where through a haze ... (Read More)
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| The Virgin: Mary's Cult and the Re-Emergence of the Goddess
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Geoffrey Ashe.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780750950640. Daedalus Item Code: 24156 |
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| The mother of Jesus has taken various forms in the Christian church throughout the centuries—the Blessed Virgin, the Queen of Heaven, the Madonna, the spiritual mother of all the faithful—yet Mary, ... (Read More)
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| Visions of Earth: Beauty, Majesty, Wonder
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Chris Jones, foreword.
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| Publisher: National Geographic. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781426208836. Daedalus Item Code: 30267 |
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| A mosquito rests on a pane of glass that is covered in hundreds of droplets, each a perfect lens for the sunny Finnish spring; the Namibian desert invades an abandoned house in Kolmanskop, creating a ... (Read More)
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| A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth
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Louis Auchincloss.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780547341538. Daedalus Item Code: 23755 |
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| During Louis Auchincloss's long career he wrote more than 60 books, including the story collection Manhattan Monologues and the novel The Rector of Justin. At the time of his death in ... (Read More)
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| Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Coming of the American Civil War
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Glenn M. Linden.
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| Publisher: SR Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780842029995. Daedalus Item Code: 21975 |
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| Collecting writings from 17 Northerners and Southerners who lived through the years prior to the Civil War, this book explores the dramatic changes in thinking about the nature and value of the ... (Read More)
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| Voices of the Desert
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Nelida Pinon. Clifford E. Landers, trans.
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| Publisher: Knopf/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307266675. Daedalus Item Code: 10471 |
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| In this novel, Brazilian author Nélida Piñon reimagines the 1001 Nights from the perspective of Scheherazade. Every night the tyrannical Caliph beds a new bride, only to have her executed the ... (Read More)
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| Voltaire's Calligrapher
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Pablo de Santis. Lisa Carter, trans.
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| Publisher: Harper Perennial. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780061479885. Daedalus Item Code: 30358 |
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| This full-steam-ahead vision of the progressive Enlightenment mind battling the corrupt remnants of the Dark Ages in 18th-century France comes from Argentinean journalist and comic-strip creator ... (Read More)
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| W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography
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David Levering Lewis.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805087697. Daedalus Item Code: 10438 |
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| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of ... (Read More)
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| W.B. Yeats: The Love Poems
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W.B. Yeats. A. Norman Jeffares, ed.
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| Publisher: Kyle Cathie. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781856269537. Daedalus Item Code: 24040 |
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| This collection of William Butler Yeats' love poetry begins with his youthful, romantic idealism. It follows with his disillusionment in middle age after Maud Gonne married John MacBride, and ... (Read More)
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| Walden Then and Now: An Alphabetical Tour of Henry Thoreau's Pond
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Michael McCurdy.
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| Publisher: Charlesbridge. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781580892537. Daedalus Item Code: 23690 |
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| The illustrator who superbly illuminated the 150th anniversary edition of Walden, Michael McCurdy here applies his lush woodcut illustrations to an alphabetical appreciation of Walden Pond for ... (Read More)
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