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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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Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300095326.  Daedalus Item Code: 22089
 
(Finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award; a New York Times Notable Book; and named a Best Book of 2002 by Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book ... (Read More)
 
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan.
Publisher: Free Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781451621372.  Daedalus Item Code: 29415
 
(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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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780375705243.  Daedalus Item Code: 31272
 
(Pulitzer Prize Winner) In this history, the National Book Award–winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, ... (Read More)
 
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781594203121.  Daedalus Item Code: 30303
 
(Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award) In the late 1940s George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set out the ... (Read More)
 
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The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 074324754X.  Daedalus Item Code: 29194
 
Christopher Award winner; Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book; New York Times Notable Book) Jeannette Walls' revelatory portrait of her vibrant yet dysfunctional family is a "spare ... (Read More)
 
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund de Waal.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780312569372.  Daedalus Item Code: 29701
 
(Winner of the 2010 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book Award for Biography and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize) A maker of beautiful pots that become more and more prized as they ... (Read More)
 
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780812980028.  Daedalus Item Code: 29190
 
When this first of her six autobiographical books was published in 1969, Maya Angelou garnered the attention of an international audience with the pangs and lessons of her childhood in the American ... (Read More)
 
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Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats
Patricia Barey & Therese Burson.
Publisher: Abrams Image.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781419702754.  Daedalus Item Code: 29502
 
While the world remembers Julia Child as the adventurous, charismatic woman who brought French cuisine to America and became an icon of television cooking shows, there's an aspect of her life that's ... (Read More)
 
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Just Kids
Patti Smith.
Publisher: Ecco.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060936228.  Daedalus Item Code: 29183
 
(National Book Award winner) This incandescent memoir by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poet Patti Smith well earned the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction. It is a swift, moving portrait of ... (Read More)
 
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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Mary Lee Settle. Anne Hobson Freeman, ed.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393057324.  Daedalus Item Code: 01959
 
Two years before her death in 2005, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award founder Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for 50 years." The ... (Read More)
 
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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Mary Gabriel.
Publisher: Back Bay.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780316066129.  Daedalus Item Code: 29451
 
(Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Named One of the Year's Best Nonfiction Books by the Washington Post, Boston ... (Read More)
 
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