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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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| Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
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Ekow Eshun.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375424182. Daedalus Item Code: 83654 |
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| At the age of 33, Ekow Eshun leaves a London that has never felt like home and travels to Ghana, in order to search for his roots. Along the way he reflects on others who have made the same journey, ... (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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| A Dog's Life
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Peter Mayle. Edward Koren, illus.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780679762676. Daedalus Item Code: 31265 |
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| Widely renowned for such books as A Year in Provence and Hotel Pastis, Peter Mayle here gives us a memoir of a decidedly different stripe. While in Provence, Mayle adopted a dog of ... (Read More)
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| Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
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Amy Seidl. Bill McKibben, foreword.
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| Publisher: Beacon Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780807085844. Daedalus Item Code: 31066 |
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| Nowhere in the United States are the four seasons more central to the regional culture than in New England; indeed, from the natural observations of Robert Frost and Henry Thoreau to the homey ... (Read More)
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| The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
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Simon Garfield.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151013968. Daedalus Item Code: 12181 |
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| This engaging memoir from the author of Mauve illuminates the philatelist's mania for stamp collecting. From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to ... (Read More)
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