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| Sloth: A Dictionary for the Lazy
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Jennifer M. Wood, ed.
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| Publisher: Adams Media. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781440528064. Daedalus Item Code: 30242 |
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| "Sloth (slawth), noun: Consistent aversion to exertion." No, don't get up; just relax, leave the work for tomorrow, and leaf at your leisure through this languorous dictionary, letting it define for ... (Read More)
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| Envy: A Dictionary for the Jealous
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Editors of Adams Media.
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| Publisher: Adams Media. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781440528026. Daedalus Item Code: 30228 |
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| "Envy (EN-vee), noun: The desire to have the possessions or status of another." While envy is perhaps best defined in a wanting gaze, this desirable dictionary captures the spirit of the most ... (Read More)
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| Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
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Alexander Neubauer, ed.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307269676. Daedalus Item Code: 23519 |
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| "In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall," begins Alexander Neubauer's introduction to this remarkable book. "It read 'Meet Poets and ... (Read More)
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| Silk Parachute
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John McPhee.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374263737. Daedalus Item Code: 30509 |
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| The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," a tribute to the writer's mother that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1997, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the ... (Read More)
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| Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book
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Sean Manning, ed. Ray Bradbury, foreword.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780306819216. Daedalus Item Code: 30318 |
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| For those bemoaning the rise of the e-book, this bound stack of printed pages—otherwise known as a book—offers spirited, never-before-published essays from a wide array of authors celebrating the ... (Read More)
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| The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
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Thomas Malory. Retold by Peter Ackroyd.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670023073. Daedalus Item Code: 30377 |
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| The muchly honored biographer and novelist of all things English and particularly Londonish, Peter Ackroyd here gives us a companion of sorts to his modernization of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ... (Read More)
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| The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
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Philip K. Dick. Pamela Jackson & Jonathan Lethem, eds.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780547549255. Daedalus Item Code: 23866 |
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| Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent, imaginative final work from an author ... (Read More)
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| Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By a Lion: A Cautionary Tale
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Hilaire Belloc. Mini Grey, illus.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: pop-up book.
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| ISBN: 9780375859700. Daedalus Item Code: 20569 |
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| As much for adult fans of Edward Gorey as it is for children 8 and up with a sense of ironic humor, this mock cautionary tale by Hilaire Belloc, originally penned in 1907, is set perfectly with Mini ... (Read More)
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| The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
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Ron Rosenbaum.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375503399. Daedalus Item Code: 83679 |
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| "The Shakespeare Wars: a conversation, a debate, a polemic, a memoir, a seduction, an ecstasy! [New York Observer columnist] Ron Rosenbaum takes Shakespeare personally, catapulting the ... (Read More)
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