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Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth survey of Indian palaces. It contains photographs to display the beauty and atmosphere of these buildings, and George Michell evokes life within the palaces and describes their many elements: halls, courtyards, temples, mosques, private apartments and service quarters.
2) Beatrix Potter's gardening life: the plants and places that inspired the classic children's tales
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener's biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Next, the reader follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor," or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice--Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Funny, profound . . . a seductive book with a payoff on every page."—People
A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father....
A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father....
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply funny and bittersweet memoir of having grown up in an eccentric family of faded wealth and gentility (think shades of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums) in which the father's failed dreams of being a writer put the family in the poor-house, drove the mother to weepy alcoholism, and provided Jeanne with a highly unusual approach to life--and a wicked sense of humor"--Provided by publisher.
11) Beat hotel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the beat generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the...
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Publications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Wilder suspected the funky 100-year-old house was haunted when she saw it for the first time. But nothing could have prepared her for the mischievous and scary antics that take place once she, her two children, and her cats move into the rundown Victorian home.
13) The natural world of Winnie-the-Pooh: a walk through the forest that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the inspiration for A.A. Milne's fictional Hundred Acre Wood, South-East England's Ashdown Forest, and how it influenced the author's famous works.
Author
Publisher
White Owl
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A must-have for every fan of literature and Paris. The Book Lover's Guide to Paris is an extensive and informative travel companion, shedding new light on an ever-popular subject and spanning three centuries of the city's unique literary history, from Victor Hugo's Paris to the Lost Generation literati and present-day works such as Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Including unique, full-color photographs to reveal the settings readers have imagined...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Reflecting the couple's thirty-year love affair with Venice, a series of travel essays pays homage to the city, its people, popular local eateries, and landscapes, and is accompanied by a novella that describes a brief love affair that leads to a lastinglove for Venice itself.
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