Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of cultural...
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Author:Krueger, LesleySummary:A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England
Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed...
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Author:Gupta, ArjunSummary:The 16th century German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder was as brilliant as he was prolific. A close friend of Martin Luther, Cranach the Elder gave artistic substance to aspects of Luther's rebelllion against the Catholic Church. This...
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Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the 'Bright Young Things' of the 20s, and throughout her life, her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After discovering a photograph of the...
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Author:Alkayat, ZenaSummary:Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the...
- Author:Hade, MarioSummary:
Lors d'une perquisition menée près de cinquante ans après la mort de l'artiste contestataire Paul-Emile Borduas, les agents Bernard Auclair et Nancy Brouillard de la Sûreté du Québec découvrent une collection d'...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress--and sometime lip model--Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady...
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Author:Patterson, James, Tebbetts, ChristopherSummary:Rafe heads back to the place his misadventures began: the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, where he's now being forced to take "special" classes. He also finds himself joining the school's football team--alongside his main tormentor...
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Author:July, MirandaSummary:In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the PennySaver, the iconic classifieds...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the...
- Author:Saltz, JerrySummary:
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity ... This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out...
- Author:Hill, GrantSummary:
The full, frank story of a remarkable life’s journey—to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace—made possible above all by a...
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Author:Hobsbawm, EricSummary:Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siEcle culture and myriad new...
- Author:Koestenbaum, WayneSummary:
Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, poet, artist,...
- Author:Katz, EricaSummary:
Emma Caan is an art forger specializing in classic paintings commissioned by museums and the ultra-wealthy. But then collector Leo Sobetsky offers a chance to return to her own artistic dreams, with strings attached.
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Author:Hale, ChristySummary:A collection of concrete poetry, illustrations, and photographs that shows how young children's constructions, created as they play, are reflected in notable works of architecture from around the world.
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Author:Lester, TobySummary:Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur of art, the beauty of the...
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Author:Lebo, HarlanSummary:With the 75th anniversary of Citizen Kane in May 2016, Harlan Lebo has written the full story of Orson Welles's masterpiece film. The book explores Welles's meteoric rise to stardom in New York and the real reason behind his arrival in...
- Author:Poli, Marie-SylvieSummary:
Parmi toutes les expériences qui nous sont données à vivre, l'expérience culturelle est l'une des plus complexes et des plus passionnantes à appréhender. Elle est l'occasion vécue au cours de laquelle chacune et chacun reconsidère ses...
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Author:Barnett, BarbaraSummary:“I look for zebras because other doctors have ruled out all the horses.” — Dr. Gregory House
Medical students are taught that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras, but Dr. House’s unique...
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