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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
The first insider account, timed to the 75th anniversary of Camp David Camp David is American diplomacy's secret weapon. The home of the 2015 GCC and 2012 G8 summits, the 2000 Peace Summit, and the 1978 Peace Accords, the camp has played a vital role in American history over the past century, inviting Presidents and international leaders alike to converge, converse, and, perhaps most importantly, relax. A peaceful mountaintop setting, crucially...
Publisher
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Description
"This lush and impeccably produced catalogue features over 100 full-color works of art from museum collections and Hockney's private studio, including such major new works as The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate Wood, The Bigger Message, and Bigger Yosemite. It also includes multiple-image galleries (spread over gatefolds) of some of his iPad drawings and self-portraits, plus film stills from the artist's "Cubist" movies. Hockney's own insight into this...
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.' Based on David Lipsky's critically-acclaimed memoir 'Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.'
"It's a movie that makes thoughtful drama out of the essential insanity of celebrity journalism, wherein...
6) Maine woods
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Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place "not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world." In Maine he comes in contact with "rocks, trees, wind and solid earth" as though he...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed over three years, this documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney's return from California to paint his native Yorkshire, outside, through the seasons, and in all weathers. It tells the story of a homecoming and gives a revealing portrait of what inspires and motivates today's greatest living British-born artist.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
311 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
In an unexpurgated exploration of Bowie's kaleidoscopic personal life, biographer Leigh reveals his star-crossed inheritance--his mother was once an acolyte of the British Fascist party; his father, the PR genius who masterminded his early career--in a dramatic contrast to those family members grappling with mental illness, fears that would haunt Bowie for most of his life. Above all, there is Bowie's hard won rise to fame and fortune, his astounding...
10) David Beckham
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Series
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Description
Follow the life and career of David Beckham, one of soccer's most charismatic players, from his early life in England, to his historic play for Manchester United, to his arrival in America.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This amazing tale not only inspired the blockbuster film Raiders of the Lost Ark but stands on its...
14) Wildfire run
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
15) Deadly harvest
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiv, 477 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they're being harvested for muti, a witch doctor's potion traditionally derived from plants and animals?and which, some believe, can be made more potent by adding human remains. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu joins the investigation with the police force's newest detective?and only woman?Samantha Khama, for whom the case is personal.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
273 pages
Description
A lawyer known for his work defending inmates on death row confronts his own feelings and reaction to the end of life when his father-in-law becomes terminally ill, his beloved pet suffers liver failure, and his young son begins to understand mortality.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this fusion of science, history, and memoir, [science editor and writer] David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind and explains how they drive millions of us toward obsession and compulsion"-- Page [2] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
[xvi, 397] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, and hops from Bavaria. Peaches from China, avocados from Chile, and pomegranates from Malta. Fairchild's finds weren't just limited to food: From Egypt he sent back a variety of cotton that revolutionized an industry, and via Japan he introduced the cherry blossom tree, forever brightening America's capital. Along the way, he was arrested, caught diseases, and bargained with island tribes. But his culinary ambition...
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