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| Small Memories: A Memoir
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Jose Saramago. Margaret Jull Costa, trans.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547752631. Daedalus Item Code: 31535 |
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| The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness, Death with Interruptions, and The Elephant's Journey here offers a mosaic of his youth in Portugal—vignettes of small events, ... (Read More)
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| Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play
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Rita Dove.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393070088. Daedalus Item Code: 21042 |
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| In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove re-creates the life of a 19th-century virtuoso violinist. The son ... (Read More)
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| The Song of Arthur: Celtic Tales from the High King's Court
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John Matthews.
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| Publisher: Quest. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780835608091. Daedalus Item Code: 31363 |
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| This companion volume to Celtic folklorist John Matthews' Benjamin Franklin Award winner The Song of Taliesin presents 19 rare Arthurian tales drawn from medieval and earlier sources, ... (Read More)
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| The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart
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Mary S. Lovell.
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| Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312587338. Daedalus Item Code: 20616 |
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| When Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 during her flight around the world, she was already America's most famous female aviator. Mary Lovell vividly captures the drama and mystery behind this ... (Read More)
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| Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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David Sedaris. Ian Falconer, illus.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316038393. Daedalus Item Code: 21307 |
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| In these outrageously funny fables, featuring animals with unmistakably human failings, New Yorker and public radio humorist David Sedaris holds up a bestial mirror to our own neuroses, ... (Read More)
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| Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
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Melissa Milgrom.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618405473. Daedalus Item Code: 21018 |
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| It's easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophies, jackalopes, and dusty dioramas. Yet as journalist Melissa Milgrom found during her own six-year exploration, the ... (Read More)
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| Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
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Donald Sturrock.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416550822. Daedalus Item Code: 21338 |
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| 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
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Marius Kociejowski.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780750938075. Daedalus Item Code: 23175 |
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| 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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| Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance
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Lauro Martines.
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| Publisher: Johns Hopkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801873164. Daedalus Item Code: 12163 |
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| This book offers a social history of the Italian Renaissance (1300–1560) in a cultural mien. Using tales, poems, prayers, and letters as primary sources, history professor Lauro Martines probes ... (Read More)
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| Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008
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Nadine Gordimer.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393066289. Daedalus Item Code: 23896 |
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| "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
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Judith Jones.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307264954. Daedalus Item Code: 13689 |
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| 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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