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2) The namesake
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A large-print edition of Lahiri's novel, which chronicles the adolescent to mid-life identity struggles of Gogol Ganguli, a child of Indian immigrants, whose father, an engineer, adapted well to life in the U.S. and whose mother did not.
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Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 1
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Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante's Inferno. Only an elite group of America's first Dante scholars--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J.T. Fields--can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
8) Marc Chagall
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Pub. Date
c1988
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A brief biography of this twentieth-century artist and an explanation of his philosophy of art are followed by analyses of twelve of his paintings. Includes color reproductions of the paintings.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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First American edition.
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"Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Paadraig aO Tuama's appealing, unhurried...
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2016
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First Scribner hardcover edition
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From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young--too...
13) The shape game
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Pub. Date
2003
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1st American ed.
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The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.
14) Henri Matisse
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c1988
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A brief biography of the modern French artist accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.
15) Paul Gauguin
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Pub. Date
1988
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A brief biography of the French artist accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.
16) Paul Klee
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Pub. Date
c1988
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A brief biography of this twentieth-century German artist accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.
17) El sistema
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
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Venezuela has a unique system of music education, taking children from violent slums of Caracas and turning some of them into world-class musicians. Shows how Venezuelan visionary Jose Antonio Abreu has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children over the past three decades. Children from streets dominated by the gun battles of gang warfare are taken into music schools, given access to music, and taught how to build a better society.
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