![]() ![]() “A kaleidoscope of charming, discursive essays. will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light.” “If you adore color, you’ll love The Secret Lives of Color. Nina Martyris, NPR ’s Best Books of 2017 Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” “Beautifully written and thoughtfully produced. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() “This passionate and majestic compedium will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light.” - Elle Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. ![]() From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” -NPR, Best Books of 2017 The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume which is a perfect stocking stuffer this holiday season. ![]()
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![]() Dan took the case of Edmund House after Tracy told him about the irregularities in the trial. Dan’s mother died, and he made life in Cedar Grove. ![]() ![]() When his wife cheated on him with his partner, Dan returned to his childhood town to look after his mother and start a new life. Dan moved out of Cedar Grove before Sarah’s kidnapping.
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It happened that, a week or so after the death of Neil Armstrong, I picked up this 1947 novel, and to say it’s quaint is an understatement. ![]() ![]() Nothing in the here but four green concrete walls and darkness upon darkness and his lone and stationary body. ![]() Everything had two meanings, one for here, here being where he was then, cell D9, 2 Division, Boggo Road Gaol, and another for there, that boundless and unlocked universe expanding in his head and his heart. This way I will have two reminders of any given detail for the price of one. Body things, bedroom things, kitchen things. Slim says a good way for me to remember the small details of my life is to associate moments and visions with things on my person or things in my regular waking life that I see and smell and touch often. His windscreen wipers have smeared a rainbow of old dirt over to my passenger side. The crack in Slim's windscreen looks like Slim. The crack in Slim's windscreen looks like a tall and armless stickman bowing to royalty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Augusten is unsure what to think of him but likes his daughter Hope, a receptionist at the clinic. His parents fight regularly, often violently, and eventually seek the support of unconventional psychiatrist Dr. His father, Norman, is emotionally absent, and when his mother is out, Augusten spends the time dressing, acting, and talking like her. He emulates her every move and hates it when she leaves the house. The book opens in 1976, when Augusten Burroughs is 11, by describing-from Augusten’s point of view-his deep childhood fixation on being like his mother (Dierdre) and becoming famous. This guide uses the 2002 Picador edition of the book.Ĭontent Warning: The source material features graphic depictions of sexual assault of a minor, drug use, discussions of suicide, domestic violence, and derogatory language in reference to people with mental health conditions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Powerful and often moving, Beware of Small States is a magisterial book, essential reading for understanding Lebanon or the current political climate of the Middle East. In a masterly narrative, he gives a much-needed, comprehensive history of the country and its conflicts, culminating with the recent war in Gaza and its fallout in Lebanon. Powerful and often moving, Beware of Small States is a magisterial book, essential reading for understanding Lebanon or the current political climate of the. David Hirst, author of The Gun and the Olive Branch, is a hugely respected commentator on the Arab-Israeli crisis. 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The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. Check into a storied Nantucket hotel for a summer of scandal in this immensely satisfying page turner from "the queen of beach reads" ( New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. ![]() ![]() In some senses, this is quite a remarkable book. Graham finds his utopian socialist ideals colliding head-on with a ruthless leader. Graham - the Sleeper - finds that his awakening precipitates a workers' rebellion but the leader, Ostrog, is no more likely to want to bestow power on the Sleeper than the previous trustees were to want to give it up. Of course, this wealth has been managed by a band of trustees, who have done very nicely out of it, thank you very much. So now, on paper at least, he owns the entire world. When he finally awakes, he finds that through a series of clever moves by his long-dead cousin, he had become in the meantime a useful repository for all sorts of investments that others wished to tie up for commercial reasons. This is a surprisingly early dystopian romance by Wells a Victorian suffering from insomnia finally is able to fall asleep, and stays asleep for two hundred years. ![]() ![]() ![]() With few people left to trust, the Blalocks head for high ground to avoid the county militia and soon become hard-riding, deadly outlaws. ![]() Ghost Riders is "a compelling Civil War tale with a chilling twist" ( Library Journal), primarily narrated by historical figures Zebulon Vance (colonel of the 26th North Carolina and later Confederate governor of North Carolina) and Malinda Blalock (who disguised herself as a boy and went with her husband when he was forced to enlist in the Confederate army). Critically acclaimed New York Times-best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb chronicles the Civil War in the Southern mountains in Ghost Riders, an extraordinary tale of a war fought farm to farm, neighbor to neighbor in the North Carolina mountains, a part of the South that never wanted to leave the Union. ![]() |