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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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| Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
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Conor Grennan.
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| Publisher: Morrow. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061930058. Daedalus Item Code: 22316 |
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| When Conor Grennan volunteered at the Little Princes Children's Home in war-torn Nepal, he grew to love the rambunctious children who challenged and rewarded him. But when Grennan learned the truth, ... (Read More)
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| The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom
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Ed Koch. Gregg Stebben & Jason Katzman, eds.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781616083724. Daedalus Item Code: 30825 |
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| "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them," former New York mayor Ed Koch famously quipped, and here he pilots a book full of such Big Apple chutzpah, refreshingly blunt observations, and eloquent ... (Read More)
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| Long Way Home: In Search of Steinbeck's America
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Bill Barich.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802717542. Daedalus Item Code: 31913 |
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| "We do not take a trip; a trip takes us," John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic Travels with Charley. Inspired by a copy of Travels that he stumbled upon in Ireland, where he had ... (Read More)
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| Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
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Susan Cheever.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416569916. Daedalus Item Code: 23218 |
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| The author of American Bloomsbury returns to Concord, Massachusetts for this engaging life of its most famous female writer. Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women; she ... (Read More)
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| Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
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Garry Wills, trans.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020393. Daedalus Item Code: 12029 |
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| One of classical literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across the ... (Read More)
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| Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life
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N. John Hall.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300097054. Daedalus Item Code: 03984 |
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| Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age, becoming famous in the mid-1890s and remaining so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, ... (Read More)
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| Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
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John McIntyre, ed. Michael Dirda, foreword.
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| Publisher: Counterpoint. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781582436050. Daedalus Item Code: 32392 |
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| James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a ... (Read More)
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| The Mind-Body Problem: Poems
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Katha Pollitt.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400063338. Daedalus Item Code: 21527 |
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| In her second book of poems, following her National Book Critics Circle Award–winning 1982 collection Antarctic Traveller, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life (her own and others) ... (Read More)
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| My Prizes: An Accounting
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Thomas Bernhard. Carol Brown Janeway, trans.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307272874. Daedalus Item Code: 31062 |
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| This book of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of 20th-century literature's more notorious enfants terribles—written in 1980 but unpublished for two decades—tells the story of the ... (Read More)
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| A Ned Rorem Reader
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Ned Rorem. J.D. McClatchy, foreword.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300089844. Daedalus Item Code: 11742 |
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| This anthology of composer Ned Rorem's acerbic musings on music, people, and life—a co-winner of the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in the Symphonic Books Category—surveys the full range of his ... (Read More)
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