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| Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales of the Weirdly Departed
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Cynthia Ceilan.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781599219103. Daedalus Item Code: 22940 |
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| Nothing makes it quite so satisfying to embrace the loveliness of life's ordinary moments than the prospect of a spectacularly dumb death, says Cynthia Ceilán. In her follow-up to Thinning the ... (Read More)
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| Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
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Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin, eds.
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| Publisher: Harcourt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151012640. Daedalus Item Code: 30036 |
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| Hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another, Vladimir Nabokov began writing in English in his 50s, becoming as fluent as he was ... (Read More)
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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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| 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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| 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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| War
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Sebastian Junger.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780446556224. Daedalus Item Code: 31133 |
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| Here the author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont immerses himself in the reality of combat—the fear, the honor, and the trust among men who face mortal danger on a daily ... (Read More)
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| Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
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Susan Richards Shreve.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547053837. Daedalus Item Code: 10281 |
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| Just after her 11th birthday, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. The polio haven, famously founded by FDR, was "a perfect setting in time and place and ... (Read More)
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| The Whales Companion: The Whale in Legend, Art and Literature
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Ariana Klepac.
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| Publisher: Pier 9. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781741960402. Daedalus Item Code: 12492 |
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| A sea monster, a spirit of the ocean, and earthly incarnation of a god, a creature too absurd to be true, an exploitable commodity—this beautifully illustrated and decorated anthology seeks the idea ... (Read More)
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| When I Was a Child I Read Books
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Marilynne Robinson.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374298784. Daedalus Item Code: 29158 |
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| In this second collection of essays, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead, Home, and Housekeeping returns to themes in her previous collection The Death of Adam ... (Read More)
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| A Widow's Story: A Memoir
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Joyce Carol Oates.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780062015532. Daedalus Item Code: 22330 |
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| In this wrenching memoir, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates describes the unexpected death in 2008 of her husband of 46 years and its surprising aftermath. A Widow's Story ... (Read More)
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