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| The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
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Linda Colley.
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| Publisher: Pantheon/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375421532. Daedalus Item Code: 92943 |
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| In this reconstruction of an 18th-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of a woman ahead of her time, she also opens a window onto the ... (Read More)
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| Paris: A Love Story
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Kati Marton.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451691542. Daedalus Item Code: 29626 |
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| 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
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Dudley Green.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752454450. Daedalus Item Code: 23164 |
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| 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
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Martin Davidson.
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| Publisher: Berkley. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780425245446. Daedalus Item Code: 31125 |
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| 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
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Katharine Graham.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375701047. Daedalus Item Code: 31287 |
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| (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
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Bertram Fields.
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| Publisher: Regan Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780060834173. Daedalus Item Code: 14175 |
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| 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
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Elif Batuman.
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| Publisher: Granta. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781847083135. Daedalus Item Code: 23628 |
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| 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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| Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey
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Sam Magavern.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230606470. Daedalus Item Code: 31996 |
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| 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
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Alexandra Styron.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416591795. Daedalus Item Code: 23182 |
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| 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
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Charlotte Gray.
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| Publisher: Arcade. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781611450606. Daedalus Item Code: 22422 |
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| 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
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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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