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| Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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Brad Gooch.
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| Publisher: Back Bay. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780316018999. Daedalus Item Code: 23345 |
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| "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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| The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman's Fight to Save Two Orphans
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Hala Jaber.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594488672. Daedalus Item Code: 00876 |
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| Zahra, age three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003 that killed their parents and five siblings. In London, foreign correspondent Hala ... (Read More)
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| For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
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Ben Macintyre.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780747598664. Daedalus Item Code: 24140 |
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| 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 Gerbil Farmer's Daughter
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Holly Robinson.
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| Publisher: Harmony. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307337450. Daedalus Item Code: 12131 |
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| "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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| The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude
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Margaret Visser.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151013319. Daedalus Item Code: 12186 |
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| Known as an "anthropologist of everyday life," for producing such books as The Rituals of Dinner (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year that also won the IACP Literary Food Writing ... (Read More)
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| Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings By and About Maxim Gorky
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Donald Fanger, trans.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300111668. Daedalus Item Code: 12751 |
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| 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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| The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
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Hans Christian Andersen. Naomi Lewis, intro.
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| Publisher: Cooper Square. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780815411055. Daedalus Item Code: 22662 |
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| Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805–75) is best known for his tragic fairy tales; in them his sense of fantasy, descriptive power, and acute sensitivity immortalized his work. At ... (Read More)
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| The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Stephen Rachman, ed.
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| Publisher: Rutgers. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780813538693. Daedalus Item Code: 30203 |
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| First published in 1857, The Hasheesh Eater was the first full-length American example of drug literature and became a cult classic among Beat writers of the 1950s and 60s and the San ... (Read More)
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| Henry James: The Mature Master
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Sheldon M. Novick.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780679450238. Daedalus Item Code: 00563 |
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| The New York Times compared Sheldon Novick's first volume of Henry James' life, The Young Master, to "a movie of James's life, as it unfolds, moment to moment, lending the book a ... (Read More)
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| The History of Tea
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Claire Hopley.
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| Publisher: Remember When. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781844680306. Daedalus Item Code: 30687 |
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| In the 18th century Samuel Johnson confessed himself "a hardened and shameless tea drinker," ruefully admitting that his kettle had "scarcely time to cool" because he drank tea from morning until ... (Read More)
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| The House of Harper: The Making of a Modern Publisher
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Eugene Exman.
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| Publisher: Harper Perennial. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780061936661. Daedalus Item Code: 13795 |
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| In 1817 four young Harper brothers opened a printing shop in downtown Manhattan. Two centuries later, their small enterprise has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful publishing ... (Read More)
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| House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
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Paul Fisher.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805074901. Daedalus Item Code: 00956 |
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| The James family gave the world three famous children: a novelist of genius (Henry), an influential philosopher (William), and an invalid (Alice) who became a feminist icon, despite her sheltered ... (Read More)
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