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Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Rights, and Solves Her Lady Problems
Rhoda Janzen.
Publisher: Grand Central.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781455502882.  Daedalus Item Code: 29448
 
What does it mean to "give church a try" when you haven't really tried since you were 12? At the end of her wildly popular memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen had ... (Read More)
 
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Dylan Thomas in America
John Malcolm Brinnin.
Publisher: Prion.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781853753787.  Daedalus Item Code: 03940
 
When the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrived in New York on his first visit, in 1950, for a tour of poetry readings around the country, America didn't know what had hit it. Angelic, devilish, ... (Read More)
 
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Eat, Pray, Love—One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia: Movie Tie-In Edition
Elizabeth Gilbert.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143118428.  Daedalus Item Code: 09199
 
The author of The Last American Man (a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award) chronicles her quest for spiritual healing following a wracking ... (Read More)
 
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Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
Ronald Florence.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670020720.  Daedalus Item Code: 20197
 
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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Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
Ronald Florence.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670020720.  Daedalus Item Code: 30328
 
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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The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas de Quincey
Robert Morrison.
Publisher: Pegasus.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781605981321.  Daedalus Item Code: 22241
 
Author of the famed and scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) enjoyed friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian ... (Read More)
 
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The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
Simon Garfield.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780151013968.  Daedalus Item Code: 12181
 
This engaging memoir from the author of Mauve illuminates the philatelist's mania for stamp collecting. From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to ... (Read More)
 
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Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend
Leigh Montville.
Publisher: Doubleday/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780385527453.  Daedalus Item Code: 31623
 
A high-flying daredevil, the father of extreme sports, the personification of excitement and danger and showmanship, motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel represented a unique slice of American culture in ... (Read More)
 
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Even to the Edge of Doom: A Love That Survived the Holocaust
William and Rosalie Schiff & Craig Hanley.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752460390.  Daedalus Item Code: 30467
 
In 1943, William and Rosalie Schiff were married in the Kraków ghetto at the height of World War II, but were soon separated by the Nazis and sent on individual journeys through war-torn Poland. ... (Read More)
 
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Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life
Frances Mayes.
Publisher: Broadway.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780767929820.  Daedalus Item Code: 30301
 
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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Exiles
Michael J. Arlen.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780374532604.  Daedalus Item Code: 21691
 
(National Book Award nominee) The story of two glamorous people—Countess Atalanta Mercati, a beautiful aristocrat, and Michael Arlen, an Armenian immigrant and one of the most popular authors ... (Read More)
 
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Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay Swift
Vicki Ohl.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300102611.  Daedalus Item Code: 11734
 
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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