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Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Claire Harman.
Publisher: Henry Holt.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780805082586.  Daedalus Item Code: 21701
 
Mention Jane Austen and you'll likely incite a slew of fervent opinions from anyone within earshot. Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, inspiring such bestsellers as ... (Read More)
 
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Japanese Papers

Publisher: Pepin Press.   Format: flexi-binding & podcast.
ISBN: 9789057681103.  Daedalus Item Code: 20011
 
Ranging from hand-laid papers with embedded colored fibers or subtle monochrome patterns to vividly colorful motifs similar to kimono silks, these close-up images of Japanese papers reveal a mastery ... (Read More)
 
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Leo Damrosch.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780618872022.  Daedalus Item Code: 32146
 
National Book Award finalist Motherless child, failed apprentice, autodidact, impossibly odd lover, Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst onto the 18th-century scene as a literary provocateur whose ... (Read More)
 
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Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet
Trent Pomplun.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195377866.  Daedalus Item Code: 30748
 
Based on close readings of a wide range of primary sources in Tibetan, Italian, and Latin, this book follows the 1715–21 journey of Jesuit missionary Ippolito Desideri across the great Western ... (Read More)
 
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Jesus: A Biography from a Believer
Paul Johnson.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670021598.  Daedalus Item Code: 23347
 
The author of A History of Christianity here gives us a succinct yet lively portrait of the man who inspired one of the world's great religions and whose teachings still guide us, capturing ... (Read More)
 
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Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was
Mac Montandon.
Publisher: DaCapo.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780306815287.  Daedalus Item Code: 02296
 
In this pop-socio-cultural history of a tantalizingly desirable yet utterly impractical invention, Mac Montandon chronicles the engineering, science, and maddening appeal of jetpacks, from the first ... (Read More)
 
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Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By a Lion: A Cautionary Tale
Hilaire Belloc. Mini Grey, illus.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: pop-up book.
ISBN: 9780375859700.  Daedalus Item Code: 20569
 
As much for adult fans of Edward Gorey as it is for children 8 and up with a sense of ironic humor, this mock cautionary tale by Hilaire Belloc, originally penned in 1907, is set perfectly with Mini ... (Read More)
 
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Jim the Boy
Tony Earley.
Publisher: Little, Brown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780316199643.  Daedalus Item Code: 21302
 
Selected by Granta as one of America's 20 best young writers and the author of the short story collection Here We Are in Paradise, Tony Earley penned this luminous first novel in 2000 about ... (Read More)
 
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Johannes Cabal the Detective
Jonathan L. Howard.
Publisher: Doubleday.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780385528092.  Daedalus Item Code: 21857
 
Variously described as Faustian, steampunk, and "a Lemony Snicket for adults" (Fangoria), Jonathan Howard's Johannes Cabal the Necromancer introduced us to a witty, dashing, fiendishly ... (Read More)
 
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John Adams: A Life
John Ferling.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780195398663.  Daedalus Item Code: 13723
 
The author of A Leap in the Dark and Adams vs. Jefferson as well as the biographer of George Washington, John Ferling here offers a compelling portrait of the man who succeeded George ... (Read More)
 
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John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work
Sally Stein.
Publisher: R Ian Lloyd.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300123319.  Daedalus Item Code: 22104
 
German-born photographer John Gutmann (1905–1998) fled the Nazi regime in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, where he began to document his adopted country. His own status as a Jewish immigrant ... (Read More)
 
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John Lennon: The Illustrated Biography
Gareth Thomas.
Publisher: Transatlantic Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781907176661.  Daedalus Item Code: 23630
 
In 200 page-filling black and white photos from the archives of London's Daily Mail, this album chronicles the singular musical career of John Lennon, from his days with the Quarry Men in ... (Read More)
 
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