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| The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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Robert A. Caro.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375713255. Daedalus Item Code: 38567 |
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| (Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography) The fourth entry in Robert A. Caro's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book ... (Read More)
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| Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses
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Claire Dederer.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781250002334. Daedalus Item Code: 29041 |
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| Ten years ago Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga (by everyone from the woman behind the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner), ... (Read More)
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| Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang
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Bao Pu, Renee Chiang & Adi Ignatius, eds.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781847376978. Daedalus Item Code: 24147 |
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| Offering an unprecedented view into the workings of one of the most secretive governments in the world, this memoir of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang is based on tapes that he recorded during his ... (Read More)
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| Remembering Jamestown, Virginia: Growing Up in the Shadow of John Smith
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Rodney B. Taylor.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781596293694. Daedalus Item Code: 10865 |
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| Now known affectionately as "the oldest living artifact of Jamestown," Rodney Taylor is the stepson of preservationist Billy Smith, and grew up on the historic Virginia island where the first English ... (Read More)
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| Rene Blum & the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life
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Judith Chazin-Bennahum.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195399332. Daedalus Item Code: 30727 |
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| (A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2011) This biography of a fascinating cultural hero by a former ballet dancer uncovers the life of a brilliant writer and producer who perished ... (Read More)
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| Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
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Susan Orlean.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781439190142. Daedalus Item Code: 29399 |
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| (2011 New York Times Notable Book of the Year) This sweeping, surprisingly moving story from the author of The Orchid Thief chronicles Rin Tin Tin's real-life journey from ... (Read More)
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| Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
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Rosina Harrison.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143120865. Daedalus Item Code: 29747 |
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| In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, ... (Read More)
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| The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon
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Veronica Buckley.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312430054. Daedalus Item Code: 21715 |
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| Françoise d'Aubigné—Marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV—was born in a French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. A ... (Read More)
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| The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume I: 1920–1945
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Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
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| Publisher: New Directions. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780811214452. Daedalus Item Code: 23912 |
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| This first volume of Tennessee Williams' collected letters begins with a letter from eight-year-old Tennessee to his mother and progresses through a youth that meandered through various universities ... (Read More)
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| The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume II: 1945–1957
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Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
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| Publisher: New Directions. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780811216005. Daedalus Item Code: 23913 |
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| This second volume of collected letters charts a time of intense creativity for Tennessee Williams, which saw the production of six major plays and several major film projects, including A ... (Read More)
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| The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner
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Page Stegner, ed.
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| Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781593761684. Daedalus Item Code: 32400 |
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| Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner was the author of 13 novels and five collections of short stories, as well as the founder of Stanford ... (Read More)
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| Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
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Joanne Passet.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780786718221. Daedalus Item Code: 21516 |
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| Jeannette Howard Foster was to lesbians in the mid-20th century what such authors as Gore Vidal and James Baldwin were to gay men. She unapologetically blew the lid off Cold War sexual repression in ... (Read More)
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