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1) Oh, Olive!
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick. With a brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she wants to, what she feels--until she reaches her parents'...
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Kobena Mercer, contextualize Bearden's life and career within the history of modern art, examine the influence of jazz and literature on his work, trace his impact on twentieth-century African American culture, and outline his...
Author
Series
Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest. Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass--and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When artist Adrian, working as an escort to get his life back on track, meets Caroline, young, pretty and not interested in having sex with him, they make a deal: a little culture on her side, and a lot of cash on his, soon discovering how powerfully opposites attract.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Chloe Chang gets dumped via USPS after moving across the county from NYC to LA, she doesn't throw her box of memories in the garbage. Instead, she starts buying other teenagers' break-up boxes to create an art exhibit, Heartifacts. On opening night she spots Daniel Kwak illicitly filming his best friend's reaction to his ex's box. They spark, but Daniel is dead set on not being another rebound. Five times he's been the guy who makes the girls...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh,and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched as he gets closer to the truth.
8) Martyr!
Author
Language
English
Description
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past-toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...
9) Last night
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"During a blizzard in Rhode Island, a renowned artist is found murdered and her young daughter gone missing, plunging Detective Conor Reid, his brother Tom and the woman's grieving sister into a chilling investigation"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Explore the dark, mystical, and mysterious work of Peter Bergting, collected for the first time in a gorgeous hardcover volume with an introduction by award-winning horror writer and longtime collaborator Christopher Golden!
Bergting's repertoire of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi illustrations include comics, magazines, novels, and games, and he's worked in collaboration with creative giants like Mike Mignola.
Award-winning comics artist and illustrator...
Author
Series
Shang-chi (Ying) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sneaking out of the palace into the outside world to find the legendary Peaches of Immortality to gift to his father, 12-year-old Shang-Chi refuses to fail in his quest until he hears things that make him wonder if his father deserves to be saved.
13) With you forever
Author
Series
Bergman brothers volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Berkley Romance edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate and the antithesis of quiet, reserved Axel. He's been able to hide his attraction to her until a party game gets out of hand and ends in an unexpected kiss. Months later, Rooney's staying just next door to him for a cozy A-frame getaway and temptingly within reach. When Axel and Rooney unexpectedly find their paths-and problems-converging, marriage proves the perfect solution"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, Raquel feels herself an outsider. Students of color, like Raquel, are the minority there, and the pressure to work...
Author
Series
Nell of Gumbling volume 1
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages : chiefly color illlustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Nell lives an ordinary life in the magical town of Gumbling, but yearns to land her dream apprenticeship and become an artist.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Readers follow Claude Monet and learn about his favorite subjects to paint, his style of painting, and his studio on the Seine."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A catalog of William Edmondson's work for the Cheekwood Estate and Gardens exhibit in 2021"--
The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework is the first large-scale museum examination of artist William Edmondson's career in over twenty years. Organized by Cheekwood Curator-at-Large Marin R. Sullivan, the exhibition draws upon new scholarship and methodologies to contextualize Edmondson's sculpture, both within the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia and Szwed considers Harry Smith to be one of the twentieth century’s most overlooked cultural figures. From his time recording the customs of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Florida to his life in Greenwich Village in its heyday. Smith was responsible for the influential Anthology of American Folk Music and several pioneering experimental...
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