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| The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
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Geoffrey Chaucer. A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd. Nick Bantock, illus.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021222. Daedalus Item Code: 23372 |
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| In this fresh prose retelling for modern readers, the author who gave us biographies of London and the Thames captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval stories. The ... (Read More)
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| Cheever: A Life
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Blake Bailey.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400043941. Daedalus Item Code: 13678 |
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| The author of a National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated biography of Richard Yates and the editor of the Library of America's two-volume collection of John Cheever's works, Blake Bailey offers ... (Read More)
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| The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie
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J. Donald Blount, ed.
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| Publisher: South Carolina. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781570032486. Daedalus Item Code: 23709 |
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| Here in a single volume are the 272 extant letters written by Wallace Stevens to the woman with whom he shared his life, Elsie Viola Kachel. Written over 25 years, the correspondence reflects Elsie's ... (Read More)
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| Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
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Robert Kurson.
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| Publisher: Random House/QPB. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780739489475. Daedalus Item Code: 01019 |
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| By any definition Mike May was an exceptional person, breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. Amazingly, ... (Read More)
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| Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze: A Literary Companion to Rivers and Lakes
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Wayne Grady, ed.
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| Publisher: Greystone. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781553652441. Daedalus Item Code: 21166 |
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| Dedicated to the fascination of water, this anthology to rivers and lakes offers top-notch writing on exploration, travel, and natural history by 24 internationally renowned contributors. From the ... (Read More)
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| Diary of a Witness, 1940–1943
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Raymond-Raoul Lambert. Richard I. Cohen, ed. Isabel Best, trans.
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| Publisher: Ivan R. Dee. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781566637404. Daedalus Item Code: 21954 |
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| Written between the German invasion of France in 1940 and his arrest in August 1943—after which he and his family were interred at Drancy and then sent to their deaths at Auschwitz—Raymond-Raoul ... (Read More)
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| Fallen Angels
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Harold Bloom. Mark Podwal, illus.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300123487. Daedalus Item Code: 92192 |
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| Every angel is terrifying, Rilke wrote. For Harold Bloom, too, this is true in one sense, since he maintains that all angels are fallen angels. The image of Satan, the greatest of fallen angels, ... (Read More)
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| The Finger: A Handbook
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Angus Trumble.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374154981. Daedalus Item Code: 20448 |
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| From the author of A Brief History of the Smile comes this complete index of the digit. Art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle in this mix of art and ... (Read More)
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| The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman's Fight to Save Two Orphans
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Hala Jaber.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594488672. Daedalus Item Code: 00876 |
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| Zahra, age three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003 that killed their parents and five siblings. In London, foreign correspondent Hala ... (Read More)
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| The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter
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Holly Robinson.
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| Publisher: Harmony. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307337450. Daedalus Item Code: 12131 |
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| "What kind of Navy officer sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?" That's the question Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of life ... (Read More)
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| The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude
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Margaret Visser.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151013319. Daedalus Item Code: 12186 |
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| Known as an "anthropologist of everyday life," for producing such books as The Rituals of Dinner (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year that also won the IACP Literary Food Writing ... (Read More)
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