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Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Helen Rappaport.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465013951.  Daedalus Item Code: 20224
 
The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin seems in many histories to have emerged fully formed from the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenin's character was ... (Read More)
 
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Dali: Life & Times Series
Linde Salber. Anne Wyburd, trans.
Publisher: Haus Publishing.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781904341758.  Daedalus Item Code: 24023
 
In this translation of Linde Salber's 2004 psychological profile of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), the artist emerges as the central figure of the surrealist movement and one of the most eccentric ... (Read More)
 
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Dante's Invention
James Burge.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780752455860.  Daedalus Item Code: 30436
 
A self-absorbed young poet who composed rarefied verse about the nature of love, Dante Alighieri seemed entirely uninterested in anything other than Beatrice, the girl he had loved since they were ... (Read More)
 
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Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race
Wayne Biddle.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393059106.  Daedalus Item Code: 21115
 
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his series in the New York Times on the "Star Wars" missile defense program, Wayne Biddle here investigates a question that has long haunted the U.S. effort ... (Read More)
 
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A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
Jasper Rees.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061626623.  Daedalus Item Code: 31177
 
In the days before his 40th birthday, London journalist Jasper Rees uncovered a French horn that had been gathering dust in the attic for more than two decades and, on a lark, played it at the annual ... (Read More)
 
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The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
Glynis Ridley.
Publisher: Crown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307463524.  Daedalus Item Code: 23501
 
An herbologist in 18th-century France and the lover of botanist Philibert Commerson, Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to accompany him on the first French circumnavigation of the world. Glynis ... (Read More)
 
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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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A Dog's Life
Peter Mayle. Edward Koren, illus.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780679762676.  Daedalus Item Code: 31265
 
Widely renowned for such books as A Year in Provence and Hotel Pastis, Peter Mayle here gives us a memoir of a decidedly different stripe. While in Provence, Mayle adopted a dog of ... (Read More)
 
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Dogfish Memory: A Memoir
Joseph A. Dane.
Publisher: Countryman.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780881571547.  Daedalus Item Code: 31401
 
The dogfish of Maine are gone, fished to the brink of extinction. And what of that fabled "Old Maine"—is it too gone for good? Joseph Dane is a Maine native who, despite being a professor of English ... (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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Elizabeth I and Her World
Susan Watkins. Mark Fiennes, photos.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780500286951.  Daedalus Item Code: 31442
 
Illustrated with 154 color reproductions of art and page-filling photographs of castles and grounds, this book from the author of Jane Austen: In Style provides a close-up account of a ... (Read More)
 
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