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Strike two
By David Fisher, Ron Luciano. 1984
Luciano is a professional "ex": ex-umpire, ex-pro footballer, ex-network sports announcer, and ex-store owner. In this work he offers a…
series of hilarious anecdotes about umpiring, arguing with players, arguing with managers, arguing with fans, baseball history, and running a sporting-goods store. 1984.Seven years with the Group of Seven: a memoir in words and pictures
By Joyce Putnam. 1991
In 1964, Joyce and Munroe Putnam met A.Y. Jackson and became friends. For the next seven summers, Jackson and other…
Group of Seven artists came to visit and to paint at the Putnam cottage in Grenville, Quebec. 1991.Paul-Émile Borduas: le peintre
By Guy Beausoleil. 1988
Picasso, le sage et le fou
By Marie-Laure Bernadac, Paule Du Bouchet. 1986
Emily Carr: the different Victorian (Operation literacy series ; reading level C)
By Anne Monaghan. 1981
Camille Pissaro: le peintre
By Henri Barras. 1988
Le temps des amours (Souvenirs d'enfance. #4.)
By Marcel Pagnol. 1977
L’année de cinquième; la découverte de la « voca¬tion » poétique; Lagneau, le cancre héroïque, et encore et toujours Lili,…
qui, en compagnie de Marcel, soutient Joseph lors d’une partie de boules d’antho¬logie… Annoncé comme « à paraître » dès la sortie du Temps des secrets, Le Temps des amours (1977) sera différé par un Pagnol pris par d’autres projets et qui, peut-être, retardait le moment de quitter les héros de son enfance. Personne n’y croyait plus lorsque, trois ans après la mort de l’écrivain, ses proches trouvèrent dans ses dossiers un certain nombre de chapitres achevés qui, mis bout à bout, constituaient ce Temps des amours si longtemps attendu.Le temps des secrets (Souvenirs d'enfance. #3.)
By Marcel Pagnol. 1960
Les vacances à La Treille se poursuivent. mais ne se ressemblent plus : Lili doit travailler aux champs avec son…
père, et Marcel rencontre Isabelle, la fille du poète Loïs de Montmajour. Puis ce sera l'arrivée eu classe de sixième et l'entrée en scène de l'inénarrable Lagneau... Poussé par ses lecteurs, et pour son propre plaisir, Pagnol décide de transformer son diptyque en tétralogie, et ses Souvenirs d'enfance en authentique roman de formation, du côté de Kim ou du Livre de la jungle. Dans Le Temps des secrets (1960), le jeune Marcel trahit - provisoirement - l'amitié de Lili pour l'illusion de l'amour, et Pagnol l'écrivain prouve, lorsqu'il croque le poète alcoolique et sa grotesque épouse, qu'il n'a rien perdu de sa vis comica. Le projet prend de l'ampleur, et le livre se termine sans s'achever, dans l'attente du Temps des amours. " La reine, naturellement, c'était elle, et le chevalier, c'était moi. Vous commençâmes par la fabrication de nos costumes, car comme toutes les filles, elle adorait se guignoliser. "Jean Renoir: une vie en oeuvres
By Claude-Jean Philippe. 2005
Claude-Jean Philippe a entrepris de faire vivre de façon directe et sensible la figure de celui que François Truffaut considérait…
comme " le plus grand des cinéastes ". En s'appuyant à la fois sur les écrits de Jean Renoir (entretiens, autobiographie, correspondance et le livre consacré à son père) et sur ses films et projets de films, il retrouve le fil conducteur de sa création, depuis la genèse d'un scénario jusqu'au montage final. Claude-Jean Philippe nous dévoile ainsi quelques-uns des secrets de cette œuvre considérable. Illustré d'anecdotes, son livre nous restitue un Jean Renoir vivant.Farinelli, le castrat des lumières
By Patrick Barbier. 1994
Au XVIIIe siècle, âge d'or de l'opéra, un chanteur domina toutes les scènes de théâtre : le castrat Farinelli. Originaire…
du sud de l'Italie, formé à Naples, il se produisit à Vienne et à Londres avant d'être appelé à Madrid où il resta vingt-deux ans, chantant pour le roi Philippe V puis pour son fils Ferdinand VI, deux grands neurasthéniques qui avaient besoin d'entendre tous les jours sa voix. Comblé d'argent et d'honneurs, il prit sa retraite à Bologne, où toute l'Europe venait lui rendre hommage, du jeune Mozart au vieux Casanova. Cette biographie, qui s'appuie sur une longue correspondance inédite de Farinelli, récemment retrouvée, nous restitue avec autant de brio que d'érudition un siècle de plaisirs, de musique, de culture et de politique.Cézanne
By Henri Barras. 1991
Andy Warhol: le peintre
By Henri Barras. 1988
Montmartre au temps de Picasso: raconté par Henri Barras
By Henri Barras. 1991
Paul Gauguin: le peintre
By Henri Barras. 1988
Sonia Delaunay
By Jeanette Biondi. 1992
With an introduction by Neil Gaiman! In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling…
and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted by madness, murder and a terrible secret. For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to forge multiple careers in movies, television and comics. Yet there's one story he's never told before: his own. Joe's early life nearly defies belief. Raised by damaged adults-a con-man grandfather and a manipulative grandmother, a violent, drunken father and a mother who was repeatedly institutionalized-Joe grew up in abject poverty, living in slums and projects when not on the road, crisscrossing the country in his father's desperate attempts to escape the consequences of his past. To survive his abusive environment Joe found refuge in his beloved comics and his dreams, immersing himself in imaginary worlds populated by superheroes whose amazing powers allowed them to overcome any adversity. The deeper he read, the more he came to realize that he, too, had a superpower: the ability to tell stories and make everything come out the way he wanted it. But even as he found success, he could not escape a dark and shocking secret that hung over his family's past, a violent truth that he uncovered over the course of decades involving mass murder. Straczynski's personal history has always been shrouded in mystery. Becoming Superman lays bare the facts of his life: a story of creation and darkness, hope and success, a larger-than-life villain and a little boy who became the hero of his own life. It is also a compelling behind-the-scenes look at some of the most successful TV series and movies recognized around the world.Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By Laura Cumming. 2019
In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on…
the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she was found in perfect health and happiness. No one was ever accused of a crime. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never discussed it. To the contrary, they deliberately hid it from her, and she did not learn of it for half a century. For many years, while raising her in draconian isolation and protectiveness, her parents also hid the fact that she’d been adopted, and that shortly after the kidnapping, her name was changed from Grace to Betty. Cumming unspools the tale of her mother’s life and unravels the multiple mysteries at its core. She investigates this case of stolen identity with the toolset of a detective and the unique intimacy of a daughter trying to understand her family’s past and its legacies. 2019.Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up
By Alex Speier. 2019
In the vein of The Cubs Way and Astroball, the captivating inside story of the historic 2018 Boston Red Sox,…
as told through the assembly and ascendancy of their talented young core-the culmination of nearly a decade of reporting from a rising star at the Boston Globe. The 2018 season was a coronation for the Boston Red Sox. The best team in Major League Baseball-indeed, one of the best teams ever-the Sox won 108 regular season games and then romped through the postseason, going 11-3 against the three next-strongest teams baseball had to offer. As Boston Globe baseball reporter Alex Speier reveals, the Sox' success wasn't a fluke-nor was it guaranteed. It was the result of careful, patient planning and shrewd decision-making that allowed the Boston to develop a golden generation of prospects-and then build upon that talented core to assemble a formidable champion. Speier has covered the key players-Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Jackie Bradley, Matt Barnes, and many others-since the beginning of their professional careers, as they rose through the minor leagues and ultimately became the heart of this historic championship squad. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews and years of reporting, Homegrown is the definitive look at the construction and ascendency of an extraordinary team. It is a story that offers startling insights for baseball fans of any team, and anyone looking for the secret to building a successful organization. Why do many highly touted prospects fail, while others rise out of obscurity to become transcendent? How can franchises help young players reach their full potential? And why, when teams invest tens of millions of dollars in young talent, are they so poor at providing them with a framework to thrive? Illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, Homegrown is the fascinating inside account of one of the greatest baseball teams ever, and a meditation on how to build a winner.Kid artists: true tales of childhood from creative legends (KID LEGENDS)
By David Stabler. 2019
Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When…
the world's most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Jackson Pollock's family moved constantly-he lived in eight different cities before he was sixteen years old. Georgia O'Keeffe lived in the shadow of her "perfect" older brother Francis. And Jean-Michel Basquiat triumphed over poverty to become one of the world's most influential artists. Kid Artists tells their stories and more. Other subjects include Claude Monet, Jacob Lawrence, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Beatrix Potter, Yoko Ono, Dr. Seuss, Emily Carr, Keith Haring, Charles Schulz, and Louise NevelsonHenri's scissors
By Jeanette Winter. 2013
In a small weaving town in France, a young boy named Henri-Emile Matisse drew pictures everywhere, and when he grew…
up, he moved to Paris and became a famous artist who created paintings that were adored around the world. But late in life, a serious illness confined him to a wheelchair, and amazingly, it was from there that he created some of his most beloved works—enormous and breathtaking paper cutouts. Grades K-3. 2013.