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21) The memory eater
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow must save her town from a memory-devouring monster.
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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Description
This 48 lecture series surveys the great movements of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the age of Charlemagne to the onset of World War II.
23) The stone sky
Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
""Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun hasinherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk...
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 97 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their qualities of uniqueness, impact, and emotional and intellectual...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating technologies for material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must...
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Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
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"In order to move toward a more egalitarian society, the American education system must be reformed to account for genetic differences between individual academic abilities. All groups, all races, and all genders are created equal. Not all individuals are. The Cult of Smart is a provocative and groundbreaking discussion of human potential, a topic which, in recent times, has been corrupted by the pernicious and cynical pseudoscience of "race realism."...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
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