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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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| Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
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Kathleen Norris.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594489969. Daedalus Item Code: 10981 |
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| "In this penetrating theological memoir, [Kathleen] Norris (The Cloister Walk) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics. Norris is ... (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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| Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide
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Joseph Epstein.
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| Publisher: Atlas & Co. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780061768880. Daedalus Item Code: 23942 |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic Democracy in America, published in 1835, offered not ... (Read More)
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| All for Love: A Romantic Anthology
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Laura Stoddart.
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| Publisher: Chronicle. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780811861007. Daedalus Item Code: 00328 |
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| As she did with The Sweet Life and Off the Beaten Path, illustrator Laura Stoddart again illuminates a choice selection of prose and verse passages from great literary pens—this time on ... (Read More)
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| All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
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Dave Isay.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594203213. Daedalus Item Code: 30374 |
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| In this collection of stories that carry us from the excitement and anticipation of courtship to the deep connection of lifelong commitment, the founder of NPR's StoryCorps oral history project ... (Read More)
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| Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
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Roy Blount Jr.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780374532048. Daedalus Item Code: 23849 |
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| "If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic ... that we'd hardly notice," opined Chris ... (Read More)
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| The Annotated Peter Pan: The Centennial Edition
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J.M. Barrie. Maria Tatar, ed.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393066005. Daedalus Item Code: 23869 |
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| "All children, except one, grow up," begins J.M. Barrie's novel Peter and Wendy, published a century ago following the success of his play Peter Pan. Inspired by Barrie's real-life adventures ... (Read More)
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| Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words
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John Bemelmans Marciano.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596916531. Daedalus Item Code: 31867 |
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| The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and toast, found a novel way to eat them together. French finance minister Etienne de Silhouette was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for ... (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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