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We'd like to share our personal favorites with you. Here are titles that we particularly want to "hand-sell" to you—books that we think are outstanding, and that we don't want you to miss.
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Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
Donald Sturrock.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416550822.  Daedalus Item Code: 21338
 
The creator of outlandish characters and stories in such children's classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda, Roald Dahl himself ... (Read More)
 
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The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey
Marius Kociejowski.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780750938075.  Daedalus Item Code: 23175
 
Offering an unexpected face of Syria, this unusual book describes an ancient land that has not always been a dangerous and chaotic destination. Ontario-born poet Marius Kociejowski made five journeys ... (Read More)
 
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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Joan Schenkar.
Publisher: St. Martin's.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780312303754.  Daedalus Item Code: 13606
 
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year as well as a 2010 Lambda Literary Award winner, Joan Schenkar's biography of Patricia Highsmith—author of Strangers on a Train and The ... (Read More)
 
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Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008
Nadine Gordimer.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393066289.  Daedalus Item Code: 23896
 
"Ours is the most solitary of occupations; the only comparison I can think of is keeper of a lighthouse. But the analogy mustn't go too far," insisted Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. "We do not ... (Read More)
 
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
Judith Jones.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307264954.  Daedalus Item Code: 13689
 
Living in Paris after World War II, Judith Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's ... (Read More)
 
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To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead. Margaret M. Caffrey & Patricia A. Francis, eds. Mary Catherine Bateson, foreword.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465008155.  Daedalus Item Code: 80204
 
A prolific letter-writer, often far from home and loved ones, Margaret Mead nearly always used her correspondence to hone her writing and her ideas and this collection presents 60 years of personal ... (Read More)
 
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Townie: A Memoir
Andre Dubus III.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393064667.  Daedalus Item Code: 23897
 
(A Finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year and a New York Times Editor's Choice for 2011) The author of the National Book Award Finalist House of Sand ... (Read More)
 
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The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay
Louis Begley.
Publisher: Atlas & Co.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781934633069.  Daedalus Item Code: 11151
 
The PEN/Hemingway Award– and Prix Médicis–winning author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt here offers a biography of Western literature's most iconic writer. The very term "Kafkaesque" ... (Read More)
 
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The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones.
Publisher: Back Bay.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780316836319.  Daedalus Item Code: 21313
 
(National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, a single family has controlled America's newspaper of record, setting the agenda not only for the ... (Read More)
 
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Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Alan Pell Crawford.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780812969467.  Daedalus Item Code: 31299
 
This book offers an unprecedented look behind the public image of Thomas Jefferson by visiting him in his final years, from his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president until his ... (Read More)
 
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Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin. Elizabeth Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare, eds.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670022465.  Daedalus Item Code: 31232
 
The author of such brilliant travel-themed works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose restless desire for adventure and enlightenment was wholly evident in ... (Read More)
 
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Frances Mayes.
Publisher: Broadway.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780767900386.  Daedalus Item Code: 31300
 
(A New York Times Notable Book of 1997) Doing for Tuscany what Peter Mayle did for Provence, Frances Mayes here discovers the tastes and pleasures of a foreign country, and describes ... (Read More)
 
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