![]() ![]() This distinguished offering blends poetry, geography, art, and history. An impressive "List of Art and Mediums" appears at the end of the book. There are quiet watercolors ("American Town") and dynamic collages ("The El") as well as pastels, oils, acrylics, and photos. ![]() Johnson masterfully varies his medium and art style to reflect the mood of each locale. Siebert's striking word choices and images reflect the essence of each subject, from the electric excitement of "The El"-(Chicago)"look! right up there!/up in the air!"-to the desolate landscape of the Badlands (South Dakota), "cracked by frost and baked by sun/sliced and scarred where waters run." The collection features many surprises: the Aurora Borealis (Alaska) that "flames/and/drapes/when solar winds are blowing" and Bristlecone Pines (Nevada) where "The slopes will still hold roots of trees/Whose gnarled limbs, bleached white as bones,/Attest to all the centuries/That shape the ancient bristlecones." A double-page map at the beginning of the book alerts readers to the exciting destinations they will experience, and a smaller map and inset box of additional information for each sight increase the educational value. ![]() This stunning tour of America highlights 26 of the poet's favorite sights, which are as varied as the nation itself. ![]()
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![]() She thinks - What does a guy like him want with someone like her when he can have any woman in the world? He’s the total package and so far out of her league, Dreamy can barely handle being in his presence. ![]() In the meantime, Dreamy catches the eye of a venture capitalist, who also happens to be the son of a famous movie star. Who doesn’t dream of winning the lottery? Oh, and she’s determined to finally win the lottery since it’s at an all-time high. That includes rebuilding her confidence and focusing on some of her personal goals like finishing her degree in Public Administration and starting her nonprofit. ![]() His words crush her, and Dreamy decides to take a break from men and work on herself. On top of that, she was recently publicly dumped by her attorney boyfriend who claimed she wasn’t cultured or sophisticated enough for him. The story is about Dreamy Daniels, a financially challenged, quirky, and fun-loving woman who loves life but has had a hard time at it. My latest book, BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL, is my debut romcom, and it was a fun project to create. Hi, Sharon! Tell us about BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL. ![]() ![]() ![]() Comic book devotees as well as the most uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once–underappreciated art form. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Making Comics Scott McCloud, Click to preview Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand–in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) called him 'just about the smartest guy in comics.' He lives with his family in southern California. Winner of the Eisner and Harvey awards, his works have been translated into more than sixteen languages. ![]() In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Scott McCloud has been writing, drawing, and examining comics since 1984. Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. ![]() ![]() ![]() A recounting of a fabulous town sinking into a pit of its own excrement. Yellow Mud Street, the first novella in the collection, is a revolting, beautiful, contradictory summation of life in the ditch. The critics love comparing it to this or that author, like Kafka and Bruno Schulz and Cortazar and others, but she is entirely in her own league in my opinion. They all partake of the same excruciatingly visceral style. ![]() ![]() She has published some 50 novellas, a few dozen stories and about 9 novels so far. A feverish, hyperactive geezer with a child's imagination. A titan of disjointed, haunting, sloppy elegance. Rising out of humble beginnings in China to become in the space of a decade, a force to be reckoned with in world literature. Can Xue is my favorite contender for the Nobel Prize. A rare scatological mosaic elevated to the highest levels of artistic expression. ![]() ![]() ![]() LORRAINE PQ 4315 B79 v.2 THE DIVINA COMMEDIA OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. Consisting of the Inferno-Purgatorio-and Paradiso : in Three Volumes Dante Alighieri. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. This beautiful book has been sold.Search for other similar books from our bookseller friends (Description) Author: DANTE ALIGHIERI.Title: La Divina. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During this fellowship, Agamben began to develop his second book, Stanzas (1977).Īgamben was close to the poets Giorgio Caproni and José Bergamín, and to the Italian novelist Elsa Morante, to whom he devoted the essays "The Celebration of the Hidden Treasure" (in The End of the Poem) and "Parody" (in Profanations). In 1974–1975 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, due to the courtesy of Frances Yates, whom he met through Italo Calvino. During this period, Agamben began to elaborate his primary concerns, although their political bearings were not yet made explicit. In the 1970s, he worked primarily on linguistics, philology, poetics, and topics in medieval culture. Agamben participated in Martin Heidegger's Le Thor seminars (on Heraclitus and Hegel) in 19. The concept of biopolitics (carried forth from the work of Michel Foucault) informs many of his writings.Īgamben was educated at the University of Rome, where in 1965 he wrote an unpublished laurea thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil. Giorgio Agamben ( / ə ˈ ɡ æ m b ə n/ ə- GAM-bən, Italian: born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark, my writing mentor, edited JL for me. I returned from LA, and instead of moving there, I wrote my story about the rock star as a young adult novel and called it JOHNNY LIGHTNING. On a plane to LA to decide my fate- “to move to LA or not to move to LA” that is the question, my big bro, Mark, coincidentally with the same last name as mine (author of PRINCES IN EXILE, DREAMS OF THE SOLO TRAPEZE and STARCROSSED) handed me a young adult book he found at the library he thought I’d like to read during the flight.Īs I read the book, I thought, ‘I can do this!’ It was during this time I began to write an adult novel about a rock star-I had always enjoyed writing.įast forward a couple of years along with a move home where I was performing “stand-up” at comedy clubs in the area. There, I graduated from the Second City Training Center and performed improv, Shakespeare, comedies and dramas-I even sang and danced on a cruise boat-without falling in Lake Michigan! A classmate of mine from Second City and I created and performed a two woman show for a year before I braved it alone doing stand-up comedy. When I returned from London, I relocated to Chicago where I lived for five years. I attended a local university majoring in theatre and spent a summer in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where I learned about the “Old Bard” from amazingly talented teachers. Before I took pen to paper, I was an actress. ![]() ![]() Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly-thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. "Exquisite.Commonwealth is impossible to put down." - New York Times #1 New York Times Bestseller NBCC Award Finalist New York Times Best Book of the Year USA Today Best Book TIME Magazine Top 10 Selection Oprah Favorite Book New York Magazine Best Book of The Year The acclaimed, bestselling author-winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize-tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. ![]() ![]() Set mainly at Christmas, the story centres around good friends Elfrida, a 'battered old actress' and quiet organist Oscar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winter Solstice is a true moment of Christmas calm and this year, in particular, I am finding I need it. For spring, I start with Coming Home, in Summer I find myself in Cornwall reading The Shell Seekers, September finds me at a very glamorous house party in Scotland and in Winter I turn to the comfort of Winter Solstice. These books encompass the changing year and are usually read at least every other year. I am aware that she has written plenty more and that her short stories are thoughtful and second to none, but I love seeing the sight of 4 huge tomes on my bookshelves. I have a collection of precisely 4 Rosamunde Pilcher novels. Missed any? I've listed them for you below.ĭay 1 - Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrandĭay 2 - The Box of Delights by John Masefieldĭay 3 - The Christmas Lights by Karen Swanĭay 4 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christieĭay 5 - The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slaterĭay 6 - Skipping Christmas by John Grishamĭay 7 - A Wedding in December by Sarah Morganĭay 9 - The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooperĭay 10 - A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg Welcome to Day 11 of #12 Books of Christmas ![]() ![]() ![]() The youngest and quietest of 12 children, Matthias grew closest to Tibbets Island, learning its secrets through the years. The acclaimed author of Miss Rumphius recounts the lives of four generations living on a New England coastal island and the importance of family ties. Island Boy, hardcover with dust jacket, personal inscription on title page. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. This beloved classic and celebration of nature-written by a beloved Caldecott winner-is lovelier than ever!īarbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. Miss Rumphius, paperback in very good condition.Īlice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted and blossoms into a beautiful plan. Miss Rumphius & Island Boy by Barbara Cooney Children's Picture Book Set ![]() |