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| Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
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Jehanne Wake.
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| Publisher: Touchstone. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451607611. Daedalus Item Code: 23939 |
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| As gripping as any great historical novel, this is the true story of Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the exuberant American sisters who enthralled English Regency society. Descended from ... (Read More)
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| Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play
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Rita Dove.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393070088. Daedalus Item Code: 21042 |
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| In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove re-creates the life of a 19th-century virtuoso violinist. The son ... (Read More)
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| Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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David Sedaris. Ian Falconer, illus.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316038393. Daedalus Item Code: 21307 |
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| In these outrageously funny fables, featuring animals with unmistakably human failings, New Yorker and public radio humorist David Sedaris holds up a bestial mirror to our own neuroses, ... (Read More)
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| Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
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Melissa Milgrom.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618405473. Daedalus Item Code: 21018 |
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| It's easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophies, jackalopes, and dusty dioramas. Yet as journalist Melissa Milgrom found during her own six-year exploration, the ... (Read More)
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| Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
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Donald Sturrock.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416550822. Daedalus Item Code: 21338 |
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| The creator of outlandish characters and stories in such children's classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda, Roald Dahl himself ... (Read More)
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| Strong Is Your Hold
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Galway Kinnell.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover & CD.
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| ISBN: 9780618224975. Daedalus Item Code: 12203 |
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| "Throughout his long career, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner [Galway] Kinnell has returned to themes of death, love and the New England landscape and in this, his thoughtful and ... (Read More)
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| Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008
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Nadine Gordimer.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393066289. Daedalus Item Code: 23896 |
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| "Ours is the most solitary of occupations; the only comparison I can think of is keeper of a lighthouse. But the analogy mustn't go too far," insisted Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. "We do not ... (Read More)
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| There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900
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Sol Steinmetz.
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| Publisher: Harmony. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375426179. Daedalus Item Code: 21093 |
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| From the turn of the 20th century to today, our language has grown by some 500,000 new words—at least, that's today's best guesstimate (1936). What accounts for this quantum leap ... (Read More)
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| Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems
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Harold Bloom, ed.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061923050. Daedalus Item Code: 22324 |
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| In this thoughtful anthology, Harold Bloom has meticulously curated the last poems of one hundred influential poets. These poems—sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a ... (Read More)
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| To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead. Margaret M. Caffrey & Patricia A. Francis, eds. Mary Catherine Bateson, foreword.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465008155. Daedalus Item Code: 80204 |
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| A prolific letter-writer, often far from home and loved ones, Margaret Mead nearly always used her correspondence to hone her writing and her ideas and this collection presents 60 years of personal ... (Read More)
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| Two Lives
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Vikram Seth.
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| Publisher: HarperCollins. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060599669. Daedalus Item Code: 70461 |
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| Shanti Behari Seth was born on the 8th day of the 8th month in the 8th year of the 20th century, and brought up in India in the late years of the Raj. He was sent by his family to 1930s Berlin to ... (Read More)
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