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| Alfred Kazin: A Biography
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Richard M. Cook.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: no jacket.
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| ISBN: 9780300115055. Daedalus Item Code: 31839 |
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| (2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries; 2008 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; 2008 Washington Post best book in the Biography ... (Read More)
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| American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
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David O. Stewart.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439157183. Daedalus Item Code: 22203 |
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| In this vivid biography of an enigmatic founding father, David Stewart depicts Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring, perhaps deluded figure who shook the nascent United States. In 1805 ... (Read More)
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| The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
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Gordon S. Wood.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143035282. Daedalus Item Code: 30298 |
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| (A 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year) We all know Benjamin Franklin, or think we do, as the genial polymath, aphorist, and self-made man—the quintessential American. The ... (Read More)
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| Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band
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Alicia Castro, Ingrid Kummels & Manfred Schafer. Steven T. Murray, trans.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781843542421. Daedalus Item Code: 03464 |
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| Havana, 1932. To help her bankrupted father Matias Castro support his 13 children, eldest daughter Cuchito decides to start an all-girl orchestra to bring in some cash. Dubbed Anacaona, the group ... (Read More)
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| An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
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Colley Cibber.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486414720. Daedalus Item Code: 04314 |
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| As an actor, manager, and playwright, Colley Cibber was an influential member of the London theater in the 18th century. In this book, he not only defends himself against personal attacks from such ... (Read More)
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| The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life
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Frances Wilson.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374108670. Daedalus Item Code: 20440 |
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| Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas de Quincey as "the very wildest ... person I have ever known," Dorothy Wordsworth is neither a self-effacing spinster nor a sacrificial saint in this ... (Read More)
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| Barbary Pirate: The Life and Crimes of John Ward
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Greg Bak.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752451619. Daedalus Item Code: 23147 |
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| In 1603 John Ward led a mass desertion from the English navy, stole a civilian vessel from Portsmouth, and defected to the Ottoman Empire at Tunis. Allied with the pasha, Ward led Muslim soldiers and ... (Read More)
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| Bobby Darin: A Life
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Michael Seth Starr.
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| Publisher: Taylor. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781589791213. Daedalus Item Code: 12527 |
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| Here the biographer of Joey Bishop, Art Carney, and Peter Sellers examines Bobby Darin's too-brief life from his boyhood in the Bronx, where he was born, through his rise as a musical sensation, ... (Read More)
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| Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451621372. Daedalus Item Code: 29415 |
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| (First Edition, Signed Bookplate) One day in 2009, journalist Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A ... (Read More)
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| The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces
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Stanley Ager & Fiona St. Aubyn. Alastair Bruce, foreword.
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| Publisher: Potter. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9780385344708. Daedalus Item Code: 29772 |
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| "Punctuality, organization, cleanliness. If you master these," assures Stanley Ager, former butler to the third Lord St. Levan, "everything else should fall into place." The Butler's Guide was ... (Read More)
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| Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times
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Jennifer Worth.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143123255. Daedalus Item Code: 29676 |
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| A sensation on British television every bit as dramatic and popular as Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife is now a PBS series as well, based on this gripping memoir by former midwife ... (Read More)
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