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A Country Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail Bulgakov.
Publisher: Melville House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781612191904.  Daedalus Item Code: 38628
 
"Do you always swear at your patients?" With the ink still wet on his medical diploma, 25-year-old Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia, which in 1916 was still largely ... (Read More)
 
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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
John Updike.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307266408.  Daedalus Item Code: 31048
 
This sixth collection of essays and literary criticism from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on ... (Read More)
 
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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: A Choreopoem
Ntozake Shange.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781439186817.  Daedalus Item Code: 09404
 
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, this Tony Award–nominated, Obie Award–winning work of poetry and ... (Read More)
 
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Gulf Music: Poems
Robert Pinsky.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780374167493.  Daedalus Item Code: 11919
 
"The gulf in the title of [three-term Poet Laureate Robert] Pinsky's seventh collection is both the large southern body of water that has been the site of so much weather-related misery, and the ... (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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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Mary Lee Settle. Anne Hobson Freeman, ed.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393057324.  Daedalus Item Code: 01959
 
Two years before her death in 2005, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award founder Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for 50 years." The ... (Read More)
 
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Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales
Howard Schwartz.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780199754380.  Daedalus Item Code: 20793
 
A three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the editor of such story collections as Elijah's Violin, Miriam's Tambourine, and Tree of Souls, Howard Schwartz here ... (Read More)
 
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The Lonely Years 1925–1939
Isaac Babel. Nathalie Babel, ed.
Publisher: Godine.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780879239787.  Daedalus Item Code: 02251
 
A collection of private correspondence, The Lonely Years is essential to an understanding of Isaac Babel's life and works. Babel—"one of the literary masters of our century," acknowledged ... (Read More)
 
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The Mind-Body Problem: Poems
Katha Pollitt.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781400063338.  Daedalus Item Code: 21527
 
In her second book of poems, following her National Book Critics Circle Award–winning 1982 collection Antarctic Traveller, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life (her own and others) ... (Read More)
 
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My Ideal Bookshelf
Thessaly La Force, ed. Jane Mount, illus.
Publisher: Little, Brown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780316200905.  Daedalus Item Code: 29454
 
(Featured on NPR and included in the New York Times Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books) In this unusual book of portraits, illustrator Jane Mount depicts such cultural figures ... (Read More)
 
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Mythology
Edith Hamilton.
Publisher: Back Bay.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780316223331.  Daedalus Item Code: 29449
 
The longtime headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Edith Hamilton (1868–1963) was a classicist of world renown—indeed, she regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which ... (Read More)
 
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O'Neill (2-Volume Set): Son and Playwright; Son and Artist
Louis Sheaffer.
Publisher: Cooper Square.   Format: 2 vols., pap.
ISBN: .  Daedalus Item Code: 21967
 
(1974 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography) The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for a body of work that ... (Read More)
 
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