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Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry
Katherine Anne Porter. Darlene Harbour Unrue, ed.
Publisher: South Carolina.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781570030840.  Daedalus Item Code: 23710
 
Honored with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and three times nominated for the Nobel Prize, Katherine Anne Porter is remembered for her brilliant short stories and for such short ... (Read More)
 
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King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
J. North Conway.
Publisher: Lyons Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781599215389.  Daedalus Item Code: 22925
 
On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
 
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Colm Toibin.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780330520959.  Daedalus Item Code: 24022
 
The author of Booker Prize–shortlisted fiction like The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, Colm Tóibín is also renowned for such essay collections as Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives ... (Read More)
 
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Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville
Witold Rybczynski.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780743235969.  Daedalus Item Code: 92408
 
Here the Vincent Scully Prize–winning architect and critic who penned A Clearing in the Distance and the Governor General's Award winner Home: A Short History of an Idea looks at the ... (Read More)
 
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Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your Life
Charlotte Higgins.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061547423.  Daedalus Item Code: 10586
 
It wasn't just heated floors, hot baths, aqueducts, and paved roads that the Romans did first and best, says classics scholar Charlotte Higgins; they were also experts at the art of love. From the ... (Read More)
 
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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Mary Lee Settle. Anne Hobson Freeman, ed.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393057324.  Daedalus Item Code: 01959
 
Two years before her death in 2005, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award founder Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for 50 years." The ... (Read More)
 
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Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales
Howard Schwartz.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780199754380.  Daedalus Item Code: 20793
 
A three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the editor of such story collections as Elijah's Violin, Miriam's Tambourine, and Tree of Souls, Howard Schwartz here ... (Read More)
 
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The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh. Mark Amory, ed.
Publisher: Phoenix.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780753827376.  Daedalus Item Code: 31042
 
One of the last of the great letter-writers, Evelyn Waugh sent witty, elegant correspondence to a wide circle of friends—letters that are intimate, revealing, and contain more than a touch of malice, ... (Read More)
 
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A Life Like Other People's
Alan Bennett.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780374191924.  Daedalus Item Code: 21702
 
Tony Award–winning playwright Alan Bennett, author of The Uncommon Reader, here offers a poignant memoir of his parents' marriage, recalling the lost world of his childhood and the lives, ... (Read More)
 
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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932
John Richardson.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307266651.  Daedalus Item Code: 23512
 
"'My work is like a diary,' Picasso often said, and [John] Richardson demonstrates the truth of this in the third installment of his biography. He rejoins Picasso after his Cubist stage, when Picasso ... (Read More)
 
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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of their Greatest Detectives
Otto Penzler, ed.
Publisher: Quercus.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781849165228.  Daedalus Item Code: 32035
 
The great sleuths in our favorite mystery series become almost like old friends. So where did these seemingly living and breathing heroes come from? That's the question that bookstore proprietor Otto ... (Read More)
 
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The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom
Ed Koch. Gregg Stebben & Jason Katzman, eds.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: laminated cover.
ISBN: 9781616083724.  Daedalus Item Code: 30825
 
"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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