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| Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
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Ronald Florence.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020720. Daedalus Item Code: 30328 |
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| This gripping history of a little-known and desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population in World War II tells how Joel Brand and the Jewish rescue committee in Budapest bargained with Adolf ... (Read More)
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| Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life
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Frances Mayes.
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| Publisher: Broadway. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780767929820. Daedalus Item Code: 30301 |
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| In this long-awaited follow-up to Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, memoirist, travel writer, and poet Frances Mayes lyrically chronicles her continuing 20-year love affair with ... (Read More)
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| Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay Swift
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Vicki Ohl.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300102611. Daedalus Item Code: 11734 |
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| Kay Swift (1897–1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the 20th century. Best known as George Gershwin's assistant, musical adviser, and intimate friend, ... (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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| Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music
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Jonathan Cross.
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| Publisher: Cornell. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801486722. Daedalus Item Code: 91879 |
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| For more than half a century contemporary British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle has been challenging audiences with his mixture of medieval and modern music. This book uncovers the sources of ... (Read More)
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| Jack Corbett, Mariner
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A.S. Hatch.
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| Publisher: Quantuck Lane. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780971454828. Daedalus Item Code: 31432 |
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| In 1849 the future financier Alfredrick Hatch was a delicate and slightly asthmatic youth, who was dispatched to sea by his physician father to "either cure him or kill him." He signed onto a ... (Read More)
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| Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life
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Jeannie Williams. Birgit Nilsson, foreword.
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| Publisher: Northeastern University Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781555536749. Daedalus Item Code: 30155 |
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| "Unquestionably one of this century's foremost vocal artists, [Jon] Vickers (b. 1926) is renowned for the emotional intensity and distinctive interpretations he has brought to his performances. He is ... (Read More)
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| The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
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Linda Himelstein.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060855895. Daedalus Item Code: 31600 |
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| In this sweeping history of vodka magnate Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov and his family, Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story of a poor serf, born in a small village ... (Read More)
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| A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander
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Alton Keith Gilbert. John McCain, foreword.
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| Publisher: Casemate. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781932033502. Daedalus Item Code: 23807 |
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| John S. "Slew" McCain was an old-school sailor; wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of Popeye. He was also a pioneer in the hard-hitting naval tactics that ... (Read More)
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| Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
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Mary Lee Settle. Anne Hobson Freeman, ed.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393057324. Daedalus Item Code: 01959 |
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| 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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| Life and Death in the Balkans: A Family Saga in a Century of Conflict
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Bato Tomasevic.
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| Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780231700627. Daedalus Item Code: 31046 |
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| Through his life story and the individual destinies of relatives and friends, beginning some 50 years before the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, former diplomat, journalist, and television producer ... (Read More)
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| The Life of Kingsley Amis
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Zachary Leader.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375424984. Daedalus Item Code: 23511 |
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| Renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit, and fierce opinion, Kingsley Amis was not only a leading comic novelist of his generation—having first achieved prominence with the publication ... (Read More)
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