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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Country Life
Author: Gordon's Print Price Annual
Author: Autumn's Shadow
Author: Lyn CotePublisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780842335577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
High school principal Keely Turner is determined to find out who is playing dangerous pranks at her school before something terrible happens. Burke Sloan, the new deputy sheriff, finds himself falling for this woman he's responsible to help and protect. As they work to overcome the obstacles in their path, they discover the depths of God's love and of their love for each other.
Truth
Author: If I Survive You
Author: Jonathan EscofferyPublisher: MCD
ISBN: 0374605998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION. Finalist for the 2023 Pen/Faulkner Award and the Southern Book Award. Nominated for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2023 Pen/Jean Stein Open Book Award, the 2023 Pen/Bingham Prize, the 2022 Story Prize, the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize, and the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize. National Bestseller. IndieNext Pick. One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022. “If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level.” —Ann Patchett A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what the younger son, Trelawny, calls “the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.” Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper, Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin Cukie looks for a father who doesn’t want to be found. As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net. Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery’s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.
Leonard's Annual Price Index of Art Auctions
Author: Coupeville
Author: Judy LynnPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738588954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The second-oldest town in Washington is Coupeville, founded in 1853. Until the white settlement of the 1850s, the Lower Skagit Indians lived in four villages on Penn Cove, fishing and gathering plentiful plants and berries. Sea captains, such as Capt. Thomas Coupe, were drawn to the area's deepwater port and the opportunities it offered to transport timber from surrounding forests. At the same time, pioneer farmers, like Isaac Ebey, marveled at the rich soil of nearby Ebey's Prairie, where they planted crops and wrote to friends and relatives, inviting them to come and share the bounty. Together, captains of the sea and soil created a town of distinctive Victorian houses and enterprising businesses that inhabitants and visitors enjoy today.
THE BEGGAR : A NOVEL
Author: PF FARRADAYPublisher: FARRADAYBOOKS
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This 272 page novel was written by the award winning British author PF Farraday. An enthralling and enchanting story it follows a dark and mysterious path of the wealthy Earl of Leicester as he loses his fortune along the way to find true happiness. THE PLOT: In 2014, a young twenty-three-year old by the name of Andy was fresh out of university and on his first job. The new intern for the ‘National Trust’ was sent to purchase an old and relatively unimportant building at Savills auction house in New York. his instructions were simple. With a small budget of a hundred thousand pounds he had to bid on and secure the purchase of a rundown estate which in 1663 belonged to a wealthy noble family in Leicestershire, England. After being surprisingly outbid by a secret buyer for a cool $5.5m he was furious and worried he would lose his job, so he quickly fired off an email to the head of department , Mr Hopkinson, and somehow managed to buy himself seven more days in the states. The next morning and when the puzzled graduate rushed down the Central Library in downtown NY and began to dig deeper into the story behind the estate and soon unearthed a dark dark secret documented in the archives of the rich and wealthy Barrington family and the possible reason why the old rundown property was so highly sought after. In 1922, the wealthy seventh Earl of Leicester and his wife died tragically in a car accident. Their only son the eight Earl inherited the estate, many priceless artifacts and paintings, and a fortune in wealth - seven hundred million pounds. The thirteen-year-old boy was now one of the richest people in England and over the years he found that wealth came with a price of its own. Everybody from charities, to family and friends, even people he didn’t know had their hand out asking for something. The heir became reclusive, tired of the world outside always wanting from him. The more time he spent alone, the more he became lonely. He soon became obsessive and by shutting people out of his life to sit counting his wealth was to be the beginning of his downfall. Back in 2014 and the more the young historian investigated it, the more he learned of a twisted, eerie story that was stranger than fiction and made a once rich nobleman the poorest man on earth.
The Irish Jurist
Author: Edgar Payne
Author: Scott A. ShieldsPublisher: Pomegranate Communications
ISBN: 9780764960536
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the most gifted of the historic California plein-air painters, Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) utilized the animated brushwork, vibrant palette, and shimmering light of Impressionism, but his powerful imagery was unique among artists of his generation. While his contemporaries favored a quieter, more idyllic representation of the natural landscape, Payne was devoted to subjects of rugged beauty. Largely self-taught, he found inspiration and instruction in nature itself. His majestic, vital landscapes, informed by his reverence for the natural world, are imbued with an internal force and an active dynamism. An avid traveler, Payne was among the first painters to capture the vigor of the Sierra Nevada, and his travels through the Southwest resulted in equally magnificent depictions of the desert. In Europe he rendered the towering peaks of the Alps and the colorful harbors of France and Italy. His unending quest to convey the "unspeakably sublime" in his landscapes won him widespread acclaim-one prominent critic called him a "poet who sings in colors." Released in conjunction with the traveling exhibition organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey presents more than 125 reproductions of Payne's paintings, drawings, and decorative arts, as well as rarely seen photographs from the artist's travels and selections from his personal collection of compositional studies. Essays by Peter H. Hassrick, Lisa N. Peters, Scott A. Shields, Jean Stern, and Patricia Trenton trace Payne's development as he traveled the world, discovering magnificence in diverse settings ranging from the California coast, the Sierra Nevada, and the stark Southwest desert to the Swiss Alps and the harbors and waterways of Europe. A richly researched chronology by Shields presents the biographical influences that shaped Payne's illustrious career.