The quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people...
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Author:Hurston, Zora NealeSummary: - Author:Hurston, Zora NealeSummary:
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora...
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Author:Owens, Lisa M.Summary:Police officer Connor Maclean has been on the job less than two months when a robbery call sends him to the art gallery of Guy Gustavsson, the man he fell in love with during one life-altering week in LA. He moved to Montana for Guy,...
- Author:Liese, ChloeSummary:
Cozy up for a heartfelt, humorous, sizzling slow-burn in this marriage of convenience romance about finding love-and home-in the most unlikely of places. Axel Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate. Warm, bright, always smiling, she's...
- Author:Thomas, JoanSummary:
A CBC Books and Winnipeg Free Press Best Book of the Year. From the Governor General's Award-winning author of Five Wives, a thrilling contemporary novel about how the past never lets us go. Isla and Jake are a couple drifting apart....
- Author:Edwards, RobertaSummary:
Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to. Only...
- Author:Waldron, Ann, Kelley, True, Fabiny, Sarah, O'Connor, Jim, Anderson, Kirsten , Gourley, CatherineSummary:
What's better than one Who Was ? book ? Six Who Was ? books! Who Is Bob Dylan? By Jim O'Connor; read by MacLeod Andrews. Listen to find out more about a boy named Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing, Minnesota; a folksinger in Greenwich...
- Author:Scott, WalterSummary:
THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD OF MAKING (OR NOT MAKING) ART TAKES CENTER STAGE IN THIS TRENCHANT SATIRE OF MFA CULTURE. Wendy is an aspiring contemporary artist whose adventures have taken her to galleries, art openings, and parties in Los...
- Author:Reid, IainSummary:
Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed...
- Author:Gopnik, BlakeSummary:
To this day, the name "Andy Warhol" conjures his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's image of him, his life and work are...
- Author:Smith, Gregory White, Naifeh, StevenSummary:
From the authors of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga comes an exquisitely detailed, compelling, and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of creative genius Vincent van Gogh.
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Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:Joyce records the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, with its three principal characters--Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and his wife Molly.
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Author:Varro, Joe, Kerr, DonSummary:Tracks: The Art and Times of Switchman Joe, by Joe Varro celebrates Joe Varro's railway paintings, his bunkhouse sketches in pencil, prints, personal photographs, watercolors and paintings in oil and acrylic. This book is also a social...
- Author:McDonald, CraigSummary:
Against the vivid backdrops of a killer hurricane that nearly destroyed the Florida Keys in 1935, the Spanish Civil War, post-war Hollywood and the first days of the Castro regime in Cuba, Hector Lassiter--legendary crime novelist--...
- Author:Lewis, Amanda WestSummary:
New York City in the 1960s is the humming backdrop for this poignant, gritty story about a girl who sees her parents as flawed human beings for the first time, and finds the courage to make a fresh start. Missy’s mother has gone back to...
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Author:Lambert, BarbaraSummary:Caught in a net of her own lies
When botanical artist Clare Livingstone unexpectedly inherits her uncles property in Tuscany, she travels to Italy to learn why despite their estranged relationship and complicated past she was...
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Author:Neel, DavidSummary:David Neel was an infant when his father, a Kwakwaka'wakw artist, died, triggering events that would separate him from the traditions of his homeland. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum...
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Author:Tannahill, Ellis, WilliamSummary:In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for...
- Author:Michaelides, AlexSummary:
"An unforgettable-and Hollywood-bound-new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." - Entertainment Weekly. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of...
- Author:Allen, James, Conwell, Russell Herman, Dey, Frederic Van Rensselaer, Drummond, Henry, Hubbard, Elbert, Jordan, William George, Trine, Ralph Waldo, Wattles, Wallace DeloisSummary:
Listen to such landmark books as The Science of Getting Rich, As a Man Thinketh and The Magic Story and you will believe you are truly hearing the secrets of the masters, speaking to you from a hundred years ago; reflect on the messages...
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