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Paul Cézanne: Drawings and WatercolorsPaul C zanne (1839-1906) was one of the most influential artists of his day, producing work derived from "the most acute sensibility at grips with the most searching rationality" according to his friend, the writer Joachim Gasquet. Honoring tradition while also challenging it, his...
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Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl's Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and MeCharlotte Stewart is known by millions of fans worldwide for her role as the beloved schoolteacher, Miss Beadle, on the iconic TV show, Little House on the Prairie, currently broadcast in syndication in more than 100 countries around the world. Here for the first...
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What Is the Story of Batman?Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most beloved characters of our time. His aliases include the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, and World's Greatest Detective, but he's best known as Batman, and he's leaping from the night sky onto the page in...
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Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to GoldTessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story -- now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair's stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic Games and beyond.Tessa Virtue and Scott...
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I Remember BeirutZeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories. Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her...
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Political Power: Presidents of the United States Volume 2This second volume graphic novel features more of life stories of the Presidents of the United States. This edition features comic book biographies Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Joe Biden. Each of these men has been president during some of the...
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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone MagazineA New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Dwight Garner)A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Janet Maslin)A New York Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year A USA Today Top 10 Book We Loved Reading in 2017An Amazon...
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What Ever Happened to Mommie Dearest?With the 50th anniversary of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? comes a new look behind the legendary film and Joan Crawford's foray into the horror genre that would make up the bulk of her later work. After the death of her husband Joan...
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The New Chic: French Style from Today's Leading Interior DesignersThe next generation of Parisian interior designers curated by the editors of French Architectural Digest. From Vincent Darr and Joseph Dirand to India Mahdavi, a new wave of design talent has emerged in Paris. Combining nonchalant elegance with the French capital's perennial chic flair,...
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Hooray for Inventors!"Pages bustle with activity, often marked with a certain zany humor." -- Booklist In her trademark vivacious comic- book style, Marcia Williams honors the fine folks who brought us the printing press, the steam train, the electric light, the TV, and more. Interspersed are...
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Nathan Hale: Revolutionary SpyA biography telling the life story of Revolutionary War hero and spy Nathan Hale. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Nathan OlsonPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 7.56h x 6.86w x 0.10dISBN: 9780736861991Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.8Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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An Academic Life: A MemoirA compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New...
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Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina Von BoraKatharina von Bora. Defiant and determined, refusing to be intimidated. . . In many ways, it was this astonishing woman (not even her husband, Martin Luther, could stop her) who set the tone of the Reformation movement.In this compelling historical account of a woman...
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Cleopatra: A BiographyFew personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and...
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Madam Bessie Jones: Her Life and TimesIn Madam Bessie Jones, Her Life and Times, Jones emerges from the shadows of Carlisle (PA) history, first turning tricks in her mother Cora Andrews' "bawdy house" and then running her brothel from the Roaring Twenties to through chaotic sixties until her murder on...
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Mend: A Story of DivorceMend: A Story of Divorce is the first in a series of graphic novels written by young adults for their peers. Sophia, the fourteen-year-old author and protagonist, tells the heart-wrenching story of her parents' divorce. She was just nine years old, happy and enjoying...
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The Magician of ViennaWe can read The Magician of Vienna not just as a work of literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store humanity's imaginary." -- Mario Bellatin, author of Beauty SalonThe heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of...
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Adam Thielen: From Small Town to Football StarThe Inspiring Biography of a Minnesota Football Star Adam Thielen grew up in rural Minnesota, cheering on the state's beloved purple-and-gold football team. He dreamed of one day playing in the pros, but no one could imagine the path that awaited him. Adam experienced...
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Story of P!nk: Split PersonalitySplit Personality is a pop biography that makes for a truly exciting read that's worthy of its electrifying subject, P!NK.Paul Lester traces the extra-ordinary career of Alecia Beth Moore from Pennsylvania through her stint in the girl group Choice, to her present incarnation as...
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Quien Fue Nelson Mandela?As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South...
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