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Alfred Kazin: A Biography
Richard M. Cook.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: no jacket.
ISBN: 9780300115055.  Daedalus Item Code: 31839
 
(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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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Joan Reardon, ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547577487.  Daedalus Item Code: 30370
 
(Winner of the 2011 IACP Award for Literary Food Writing) In 1952, not long after she opened L'École des Trois Gourmandes in France with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, Julia Child sent ... (Read More)
 
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
Dave Eggers, ed. Marjane Satrapi, intro.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547241609.  Daedalus Item Code: 30812
 
Giving grist to the rumor that he must have blackmailed his way into the series, McSweeney's editor Dave Eggers apparently has a lock on the pilot's chair for what has become one of the most ... (Read More)
 
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
Dave Eggers, ed. Guillermo Del Toro, intro.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547577432.  Daedalus Item Code: 30813
 
The Oscar-winning creator of Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone, Guillermo del Toro introduces the 2011 edition of Nonrequired Reading, the highly popular annual ... (Read More)
 
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
David Eggers, ed. Ray Bradbury, intro.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547595962.  Daedalus Item Code: 31543
 
For 2012, the highly popular annual contribution to the Best American series from McSweeney's editor and part-time pirate Dave Eggers features an introduction by the late Ray Bradbury on the ... (Read More)
 
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The Best American Short Stories 2011
Geraldine Brooks, ed. Heidi Pitlor, series ed.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547242163.  Daedalus Item Code: 30822
 
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, People of the Book, and Caleb's Crossing, Australian-born Geraldine Brooks edits and introduces this edition of Best American Short ... (Read More)
 
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The Best American Essays 2011
Edwidge Danticat, ed. Robert Atwan, series ed.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547479774.  Daedalus Item Code: 22713
 
Twice nominated for the National Book Award, and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I'm Dying, Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat here presents the finest ... (Read More)
 
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The Best American Poetry 2012
Mark Doty, ed. David Lehman, series ed.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781439181522.  Daedalus Item Code: 29409
 
The winner of the National Book Award in 2008 for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, Mark Doty has also earned the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and the ... (Read More)
 
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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Bill Bryson.
Publisher: Broadway/QPB.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781607511724.  Daedalus Item Code: 11493
 
What is the difference between "immanent" and "imminent," or between "acute" and "chronic"? What is the singular form of "graffiti?" And what is the former name of "Moldova"? Here the author of the ... (Read More)
 
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Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic
Henry David Thoreau. Scot Miller, photos.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780618758456.  Daedalus Item Code: 23930
 
What better way to present Henry David Thoreau's classic treatise on Cape Cod than with beautiful color photographs of the places in question—many of them seen in ways Thoreau himself might have seen ... (Read More)
 
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The Cats of Copenhagen
James Joyce. Casey Sorrow, illus.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781476708942.  Daedalus Item Code: 29654
 
In 1936, while visiting Denmark, James Joyce wrote a letter to his young grandson Stephen James Joyce, playfully ruing that he could not send him a cat as he had done from northern France (a toy cat ... (Read More)
 
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The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems
Alan Axelrod.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781616084028.  Daedalus Item Code: 30824
 
Anybody ever called you a dewdropper? A kibitzer? A lounge lizard? If you never knew what the heck they meant—or if you ever wanted to toss around some hip jive yourself—this is the book you need. ... (Read More)
 
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