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"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company
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[2021]
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English
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"Publishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries "offer the most complete picture ever published" of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks-posthumously discovered behind...
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Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Destined to go down as one of the era's most astonishing global art projects, the Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook Project has, in less than a decade, amassed more than thirty thousand sketchbooks submitted by people of all ages and artistic abilities from more than 130 countries. Bursting with color, vivid imagery, and bouts of whimsy mixed with deeply intimate insights, the sketchbooks capture the texture of personal experience in a dizzying variety...
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A notebook that is passed from student to student around a classroom becomes a repository for wild rumors, heartfelt confessions, and creative writing and helps the students cope when their teacher has medical emergency and they must cope with a rigid substitute as they worry about their beloved teacher and her family.
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet 'Lettie' Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a wealth...
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Titania/Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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"Óscar utiliza el metro de la ciudad a menudo y hace meses que coincide con una chica que siempre está dibujando en un cuaderno amarillo. Le intriga el cuaderno, sus ojos, cómo sujeta el lápiz y lo que siente cada vez que se cruzan sin decirse nada.Valentina viaja de vez en cuando en metro y siempre dibuja a las personas que le gustan y cuyas historias querría conocer. Ha dibujado a multitud de desconocidos, pero hay uno al que encuentra especial,...
12) Prison notebooks
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Featuring never-before-published lyrics to some of his greatest songs, personal diary entries, doodles, quips and jokes, and piercing insights on politics and justice, this is Woody Guthrie's essential self-portrait, carefully curated by Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie and award-winning music writer and historian Robert Santelli"--
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
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English
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For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
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Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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"The ... coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of [Prince], in his own words--featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks, and lyric sheets, and the ... memoir he began writing before his ... death"--English-language version, Amazon.com.
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Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first-ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features the artist's handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings. With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Children Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace move into a secluded old estate, and notice that strange things start happening. Now it's up to them to learn the unbelievable truth about the house, and of the amazing creatures that inhabit it.
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