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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"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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English
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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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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From watercolor icon Emma Block comes a creativity guide to keeping a sketchbook as an artistic practice, with techniques and sources of inspiration for experimenting, drawing and painting, and seeing the world through a colorful lens"--
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Author
Publisher
Titania/Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"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,...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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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Publisher
Adventure Publications
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"See nature with the eyes of a naturalist. Feel nature with the heart of an artist. If you enjoy birding, gardening, or the great outdoors, Drawn to Birds is for you. Naturalist and watercolorist Jenny deFouw Geuder combines her vast knowledge of nature with her artistic expertise to create a book like no other. This collection begins with an introduction to bird anatomy. From there, more than 60 different bird species are showcased in watercolor,...
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"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.
Author
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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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Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing. This collection of drawings shows another side of Baez: lovingly loose and charming sketches on reoccurring themes such as politics, relationships, women, animals, and family. Each section, organized thematically, includes an introductory piece by the artist. Baez approaches her line drawings as exercises in freedom: she begins drawing upside down--often...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer's artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the Reagan era.
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