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We'd like to share our personal favorites with you. Here are titles that we particularly want to "hand-sell" to you—books that we think are outstanding, and that we don't want you to miss.
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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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First Family: Abigail and John Adams
Joseph J. Ellis.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307269621.  Daedalus Item Code: 09328
 
(First Edition, Signed Bookplate) The author of His Excellency, the Pulitzer Prize winner Founding Brothers, and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx here brings ... (Read More)
 
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Brad Gooch.
Publisher: Back Bay.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780316018999.  Daedalus Item Code: 23345
 
"Drawing on recently unsealed letters and an impressive array of interviews, [Brad] Gooch provides the first major biography of Flannery O'Connor since she died in 1964, at the age of thirty-nine. He ... (Read More)
 
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For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
Ben Macintyre.
Publisher: Bloomsbury.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780747598664.  Daedalus Item Code: 24140
 
In February 1952 Ian Fleming began writing about a secret agent, and came up with one of the most successful and enduring heroes in popular fiction, James Bond. But the dangerous world Bond inhabits, ... (Read More)
 
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The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
Joshua Kendall.
Publisher: Berkley.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780425245453.  Daedalus Item Code: 22841
 
Although Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, his own story is not nearly so well known. Here Joshua Kendall uncovers Webster's far-reaching influence in establishing ... (Read More)
 
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780375705243.  Daedalus Item Code: 31272
 
(Pulitzer Prize Winner) In this history, the National Book Award–winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, ... (Read More)
 
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Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
Justin Martin.
Publisher: DaCapo.   Format: as is, hardcover.
ISBN: 9780306818813.  Daedalus Item Code: 30607
 
Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's campus, Frederick Law Olmsted was also an influential journalist, ... (Read More)
 
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781594203121.  Daedalus Item Code: 30303
 
(Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award) In the late 1940s George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set out the ... (Read More)
 
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George IV: The Rebel Who Would be King
Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by Amanda Foreman.
Publisher: Palgrave.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781403983794.  Daedalus Item Code: 31989
 
The author of The Borgias and Their Enemies and The House of Medici, as well as biographies of Queen Victoria and King George III, Christopher Hibbert here delivers a superbly detailed ... (Read More)
 
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The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter
Holly Robinson.
Publisher: Harmony.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307337450.  Daedalus Item Code: 12131
 
"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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Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque
Kate Cambor.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780374532246.  Daedalus Item Code: 21693
 
They were the celebrity heirs and heiresses of Belle Époque France, the children and grandchildren of such famous 19th-century men of letters and science as writer Alphonse Daudet, neurologist ... (Read More)
 
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Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings By and About Maxim Gorky
Donald Fanger, trans.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300111668.  Daedalus Item Code: 12751
 
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) enjoyed worldwide fame in the first half of the 20th century. Prodigiously gifted and prolific, riddled with contradictions, praised increasingly for political rather than ... (Read More)
 
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