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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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| Hans Christian Andersen: Denmark's Famous Author
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Anna Carew-Miller. Kirill Chelushkin, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841600. Daedalus Item Code: 30988 |
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| Born in 1805 in the Danish town of Odense, near Copenhagen, Hans Christian Andersen was indeed an ugly duckling. Though his looks kept him apart from other children, and later made it difficult for ... (Read More)
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| Henry James: The Mature Master
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Sheldon M. Novick.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780679450238. Daedalus Item Code: 00563 |
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| The New York Times compared Sheldon Novick's first volume of Henry James' life, The Young Master, to "a movie of James's life, as it unfolds, moment to moment, lending the book a ... (Read More)
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| John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
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Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: slipcased.
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| ISBN: 9780300096613. Daedalus Item Code: 31842 |
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| (Winner of the ILAB Prize for Bibliography from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) This immense two-volume account presents the controversial career of John Payne Collier, a ... (Read More)
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| Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry
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Katherine Anne Porter. Darlene Harbour Unrue, ed.
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| Publisher: South Carolina. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781570030840. Daedalus Item Code: 23710 |
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| Honored with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and three times nominated for the Nobel Prize, Katherine Anne Porter is remembered for her brilliant short stories and for such short ... (Read More)
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| Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend
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Harold Schechter.
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| Publisher: Ballantine. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780345476814. Daedalus Item Code: 21858 |
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| The author of The Devil's Gentleman returns to the sinister shadows of gaslit New York City in this gripping true-crime account, beginning in 1841 with the last moments of the life of ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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| Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville
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Witold Rybczynski.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780743235969. Daedalus Item Code: 92408 |
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| Here the Vincent Scully Prize–winning architect and critic who penned A Clearing in the Distance and the Governor General's Award winner Home: A Short History of an Idea looks at the ... (Read More)
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| The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books
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Jeff Martin & C. Max Magee, eds.
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| Publisher: Soft Skull. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781593764043. Daedalus Item Code: 32386 |
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| From Gutenberg's press and Edison's phonograph to the iPod and the e-reader, the ways we create, distribute, and absorb information have changed dramatically, and continue to change. In this quaint, ... (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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