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| 100 Words to Make You Sound Great
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The Editors of American Heritage.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780618883103. Daedalus Item Code: 31518 |
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| From "adamant" (in a speech by Barack Obama) to "yammer" (in Glenn Stout's introduction to Best American Sports Writing 2004), this collection of 100 words and quotations has been assembled by ... (Read More)
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| 77 Love Sonnets: Unabridged on 2 CDs
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Garrison Keillor.
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| Publisher: High Bridge. Format: 2 audio CDs.
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| ISBN: 9781598877618. Daedalus Item Code: 22781 |
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| "When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 29, 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state' for English class, and fifty ... (Read More)
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| Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin
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Nicholas Ostler.
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| Publisher: Walker & Company. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780802716798. Daedalus Item Code: 29725 |
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| The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West over two millennia—the foundation of our education, the terminology of science and law, and until recent decades, the ... (Read More)
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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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| Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
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William Grimes.
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| Publisher: North Point. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780865476929. Daedalus Item Code: 21679 |
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| New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen, declares former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes. In this grand tour of New York's dining culture, illustrated ... (Read More)
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| The Art of the Epigraph: How Great Books Begin
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Rosemary Ahern.
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| Publisher: Atria. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451693249. Daedalus Item Code: 29408 |
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| For a bibliophile, there are few things more telling about the book at hand than an epigraph. Those intriguing quotations, sayings, snippets of songs, or poems that appear just before Chapter One do ... (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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| The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
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Dave Eggers, ed. Sufjan Stevens, intro.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780618890811. Daedalus Item Code: 30811 |
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| This collection of the unexpected boasts the best in fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and anything else written in 2006, compiled by McSweeney's editor Dave Eggers ... (Read More)
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| The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
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David Eggers, editor. Judy Blume, intro.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780618902835. Daedalus Item Code: 23237 |
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| The head pirate at McSweeney's website and author of What is the What?, Dave Eggers again helms what has become one of the most required collections of the Best American series, the ... (Read More)
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| The Best American Poetry 2012
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Mark Doty, ed. David Lehman, series ed.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781439181522. Daedalus Item Code: 29409 |
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| 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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| Blackbird and Wolf
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Henri Cole.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374113797. Daedalus Item Code: 11912 |
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| "In his sixth book, [Henri] Cole wants to write 'something highly controlled / that is the opposite,' and he succeeds. Once a poet of great formal control and dense, sometimes inscrutable lines, Cole ... (Read More)
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| Blues and Haikus
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Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Sims.
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| Publisher: Rockbeat. Format: 1 audio CD.
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| ISBN: ROC-CD-3152. Daedalus Item Code: 29713 |
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| A more deliberate, confident performance than his earlier recording Poetry for the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Blues and Haikus sets the poet's readings to accompaniment from his ... (Read More)
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