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Paris: A Love Story
Kati Marton.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781451691542.  Daedalus Item Code: 29626
 
A former NPR and ABC News correspondent and the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, Hungarian-American Kati Marton ... (Read More)
 
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Patrick Bronte: Father of Genius
Dudley Green.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752454450.  Daedalus Item Code: 23164
 
Patrick Brontë (1777–1861) was the father of novelists Anne, Charlotte, and Emily as well as their brother Branwell, yet he was also a fascinating man in his own right, says Dudley Green in this ... (Read More)
 
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The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past
Martin Davidson.
Publisher: Berkley.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780425245446.  Daedalus Item Code: 31125
 
Growing up in Scotland, BBC editor Martin Davidson remembers his mother's German father, Bruno Langbehn, as the perfect grandfather, full of jokes and entertaining stories. But after the old man died ... (Read More)
 
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Personal History
Katharine Graham.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780375701047.  Daedalus Item Code: 31287
 
(Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography) This extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women contains, as its title suggests, both ... (Read More)
 
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Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
Bertram Fields.
Publisher: Regan Books.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060834173.  Daedalus Item Code: 14175
 
For centuries scholars have debated the true identity of the author of the poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare, the actor and co-owner of a successful theater company who hailed from ... (Read More)
 
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Elif Batuman.
Publisher: Granta.   Format: laminated cover.
ISBN: 9781847083135.  Daedalus Item Code: 23628
 
In her brilliant first book, Elif Batuman takes the reader on a journey both literary and actual as she traces the evolution of her fascination with Russian literature across the globe and several ... (Read More)
 
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
Oren Harman.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780099531661.  Daedalus Item Code: 30403
 
When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two distinguished British evolutionary ... (Read More)
 
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Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey
Sam Magavern.
Publisher: Palgrave.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780230606470.  Daedalus Item Code: 31996
 
Widely known for his memoir Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet—a Renaissance man who did not want to be known only as a Holocaust writer. Using ... (Read More)
 
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Reading My Father: A Memoir
Alexandra Styron.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416591795.  Daedalus Item Code: 23182
 
In his own memoir Darkness Visible, Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron searingly chronicled his battle with deep depression. Here his youngest daughter Alexandra, herself a novelist, ... (Read More)
 
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Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
Charlotte Gray.
Publisher: Arcade.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781611450606.  Daedalus Item Code: 22422
 
Although we remember Alexander Graham Bell best as inventor of the telephone, this biography reveals his wide-ranging passion for invention and delves into the private life that supported his genius. ... (Read More)
 
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Rene Blum & the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life
Judith Chazin-Bennahum.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195399332.  Daedalus Item Code: 30727
 
(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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Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters
Barbara Ehrlich White.
Publisher: Abrams.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780810996076.  Daedalus Item Code: 22790
 
During the 78 years of his life Pierre-Auguste Renoir made thousands of paintings and uncounted drawings, watercolors, and sketches. Behind this prodigious output is a lifetime of struggle and ... (Read More)
 
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