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Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats
Patricia Barey & Therese Burson.
Publisher: Abrams Image.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781419702754.  Daedalus Item Code: 29502
 
While the world remembers Julia Child as the adventurous, charismatic woman who brought French cuisine to America and became an icon of television cooking shows, there's an aspect of her life that's ... (Read More)
 
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Just Kids
Patti Smith.
Publisher: Ecco.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060936228.  Daedalus Item Code: 29183
 
(National Book Award winner) This incandescent memoir by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poet Patti Smith well earned the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction. It is a swift, moving portrait of ... (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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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Mary Gabriel.
Publisher: Back Bay.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780316066129.  Daedalus Item Code: 29451
 
(Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Named One of the Year's Best Nonfiction Books by the Washington Post, Boston ... (Read More)
 
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Machiavelli: A Biography
Miles J. Unger.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781416556305.  Daedalus Item Code: 29406
 
The name of Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with the cynical and selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was a humane and perceptive writer whose controversial ... (Read More)
 
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Miles: The Autobiography
Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781447218371.  Daedalus Item Code: 30700
 
(American Book Award Winner) "Listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life—with my clothes on—was when I first heard Diz and Bird back in 1944. I've come close to matching the feeling of ... (Read More)
 
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Monty Python Live!: The Never-Before-Told Story of Six and a Half Men and a Girl on the Road
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Eric Idle, ed.
Publisher: Hyperion.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781401323677.  Daedalus Item Code: 30058
 
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you've already availed yourself of all the Monty Python television recordings, books, feature films, memoirs, concert performances, side projects, and ... (Read More)
 
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780375713255.  Daedalus Item Code: 38567
 
(Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography) The fourth entry in Robert A. Caro's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book ... (Read More)
 
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Susan Orlean.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781439190142.  Daedalus Item Code: 29399
 
(2011 New York Times Notable Book of the Year) This sweeping, surprisingly moving story from the author of The Orchid Thief chronicles Rin Tin Tin's real-life journey from ... (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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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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Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection
William H. Shannon & Christine M. Bochen, eds.
Publisher: HarperOne.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061348327.  Daedalus Item Code: 21152
 
A Trappist monk and an activist for peace and civil rights, Thomas Merton (1915–68) is recognized for his pioneering work in contemplative spirituality, his quest to understand Eastern thought and ... (Read More)
 
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