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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
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534 pages : black and white illustration ; 24 cm
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"In the 1920s, long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an accomplished pilot. Along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, he was chosen to pioneer new mail routes across the globe. No distance was too far and no mountain too high - each letter had to reach its destination. The three friends soared through the air, while back on solid ground, they dealt with a world torn apart by wars and political factions. This is a...
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and...
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 24 cm
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"Winner of the prestigious Azori Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter--is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora...
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"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
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The story of Margery Williams Bianco, author of the beloved children's book The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft...
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"The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn--a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary...
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The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education...
10) Henri Matisse
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The video contains definitive biographies accompanied by a visual analysis of the artist's major work. Full of imagery, the video is the perfect introduction to Henri Matisse's modern art.
11) West of Sunset
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack. Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life,...
12) The founder
Pub. Date
2017
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Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
13) He: a novel
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension among the commercial demands, artistic integrity, and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists"--
14) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
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An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Weaves together the stories of three generations of a single family--a teenage boy who leaves Texas for 1920s Hollywood, a young girl who dreams of a real family far from 1940s L.A., and a young man who seeks out his eccentric grandparents in 1980.
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the young Dalai Lama.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," she declares in 1929 upon her arrival in Paris, where she soon catches the eye of famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee persuades him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows....
18) John Steinbeck
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD c (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In depth look at the life and career of writer John Steinbeck.
Author
Series
Tudor Rose volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the Pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...
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