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Silent days, silent dreams
By Allen Say. 2017
An imagined biography of James Castle--a deaf, autistic artist--whose exceptional talent was recognized later in life. Despite mistreatment and being…
misunderstood, James presents his personal view of the world through art that now hangs in major museums throughout the world. For grades 2-4. 2017Not without laughter
By Langston Hughes. 1995
Frida
By Jonah Winter, Ana Juan. 2002
Diego
By Jonah Winter, Jeanette Winter. 1991
This story of Diego Rivera, the greatest muralist of Mexico--and of the world--shows how his passion for painting and love…
for his country combined to make a powerful art celebrating the Mexican people. Told in Spanish and English. For grades 2-4. 1991Le sillon: Suivi d'un entretien avec l'autrice (Litt©♭rature Littérature)
By Valérie Manteau. 2019
« Je rêve de chats qui tombent des rambardes, d'adolescents aux yeux brillants qui surgissent au coin de la rue…
et tirent en pleine tête, de glissements de terrain emportant tout Cihangir dans le Bosphore, de ballerines funambules aux pieds cisaillés, je rêve que je marche sur les tuiles des toits d'Istanbul et qu'elles glissent et se décrochent. Mais toujours ta main me rattrape, juste au moment où je me réveille en plein vertige, les poings fermés, agrippée aux draps ; même si de plus en plus souvent au réveil tu n'es plus là. » Autofiction, grand reportage, document politique, roman d'amour, Le Sillon est d'une richesse inclassable, porté par la lecture sensible et engagée de son autriceLoin: Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
By Alexis Michalik. 2019
« Comment avoir l'audace de prétendre être en vie si l'on vit sans oser ? » Tout commence par quelques…
mots griffonnés au dos d'une carte postale : « Je pense à vous, je vous aime ». Ils sont signés de Charles, le père d'Antoine, parti vingt ans plus tôt sans laisser d'adresse. Avec son meilleur ami, Laurent, apprenti journaliste, et Anna, sa jeune soeur complètement déjantée, Antoine part sur les traces de ce père fantôme. C'est l'affaire d'une semaine, pense-t-il... De l'ex-Allemagne de l'Est à la Turquie d'Atatürk, de la Géorgie de Staline à l'Autriche nazie, de rebondissements en coups de théâtre, les voici partis pour un road movie généalogique et chaotique à la recherche de leurs origines insoupçonnées. Alexis Michalik a décidément le goût de l'aventure : après le succès phénoménal d'Edmond, le comédien, metteur en scène et dramaturge couronné par cinq Molières, nous embarque à bord d'un premier roman virevoltant, drôle et exaltantWoolgathering
By Patti Smith. 2011
The boy who drew birds: a story of John James Audubon / by Jacqueline Davies
By Jacqueline Davies, Melissa Sweet. 2004
Recounts how passionately the young Frenchman who made his home in America loved birds. Describes the numerous drawings and paintings…
he made of birds, their nests, and eggs and reveals the way he determined whether migrating birds return to the same place in the spring. For grades 2-4. 2004Lust for life
By Irving Stone. 1984
Fictional biography of the passionate and beleaguered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Based on the three volumes of van…
Gogh's letters to his brother, Theo. Basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. 1934Destination gold!
By Julie Lawson. 2001
Canada, 1897. Sixteen-year-old Ned Turner leaves his widowed mother and younger sister, Sarah, to seek his fortune in the Klondike…
gold fields. The next year Sarah undertakes the treacherous journey to find him. Along with Catherine, a runaway, she joins Ned and shares his adventures. For grades 6-9. 2000Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, artist: The Artist Who Was Crippled (Great Achievers Ser.Great Achievers)
By Jennifer Bryant, Jennifer F. Bryant. 1994
Presents biographical details and the artistic development of the French painter and poster designer. Suffering from broken legs as a…
teenager, Henri was forced to limit his physical activities, but he continued to draw. As an adult, he enjoyed the nighttime entertainments of Paris and often used them as the subject of his painting. For junior and senior high readersLeonardo's horse
By Jean Fritz, Hudson Talbott. 2001
The story behind the American Horse at the Frederik Meijer Gardens. An artistic idea envisioned but never finished by Leonardo…
da Vinci, the horse was subsequently completed by a pair of American artists in 1999. One bronzed statue remains in Milan, Italy, and the other resides in Grand Rapids. A 2002 Michigan Notable book. For grades 3-6. 2001. Award winnerBuddha: a story of enlightenment
By Deepak Chopra. 2007
A retelling of the Buddha's search for truth. The prince Siddhartha leaves behind his comfortable palace, becomes a wandering monk…
who faces many trials and much suffering, and transcends physical pain to achieve enlightenment as the Buddha. Includes a concise practical guide to Buddhism. 2007RX
By Rachel Lindsay. 2018
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice…
between sanity and happiness.In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure healthcare coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange turn when she is promoted onto the Pfizer account and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the curtain, developing ads for an antidepressant drug. She is the audience of the work she's been pouring over and it highlights just how unhappy and trapped she feels, stuck in an endless cycle of treatment, insurance and medication. Overwhelmed by the stress of her professional life and the self-scrutiny it inspires, she begins to destabilize and while in the midst of a crushing job search, her mania takes hold. Her altered mindset yields a simple solution: to quit her job and pursue life as an artist, an identity she had abandoned in exchange for medical treatment. When her parents intervene, she finds herself hospitalized against her will, and stripped of the control she felt she had finally reclaimed. Over the course of her two weeks in the ward, she struggles in the midst of doctors, nurses, patients and endless rules to find a path out of the hospital and this cycle of treatment. One where she can live the life she wants, finding freedom and autonomy, without sacrificing her dreams in order to stay well.Divine Stories
By Andy Rotman. 2008
Divine Stories is the inaugural volume in a landmark translation series devoted to making the wealth of classical Indian Buddhism…
accessible to modern readers. The stories here, among the first texts to be inscribed by Buddhists, highlight the moral economy of karma, illustrating how gestures of faith, especially offerings, can bring the reward of future happiness and ultimate liberation. Originally contained in the Divyavadana, an enormous compendium of Sanskrit Buddhist narratives from the early Common Era, the stories in this collection express the moral and ethical impulses of Indian Buddhist thought and are a testament to the historical and social power of narrative. Long believed by followers to be the actual words of the Buddha himself, these divine stories are without a doubt some of the most influential stories in the history of Buddhism.The Painter's Wife
By Sheila Fischman, Monique Durand. 2003
Inspired by the lives of two great artists - Evelyn Rowat, fashion illustrator, and René Marcil, painter - The Painter's…
Wife, a novel about art and passion, is written in a language as brilliant and intense as the mercurial lives of its completely contradictory characters.Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman
By Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Thomas Andrae, Mel Gordon. 2010
Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of…
Superman. Included are complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creative fiasco.Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective Comics for $130 in 1938. Not only did they lose the ownership of the Superman character, they also agreed to write and illustrate it for ten years at ten dollars per page. Their contract with the DC publishers was soon heralded as the most foolish agreement in the history of American popular culture.After toiling on workman's wages for a decade, Siegel and Shuster struggled to come up with a new superhero, one that would right their wrongs and prove that justice, fair-play, and zany craftsmanship was the true American way and would lead to ultimate victory. But when the naïve duo launched their new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. All the turmoil and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster's postwar life percolated into the comic strip.This book tells the back story of the unsuccessful strip and Siegel and Shuster's ambition to have their funny Jewish superhero trump Superman.Mel Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin.Thomas Andrae is the author of Batman and Me.Una noche en el Orient Express
By Veronica Henry. 2013
Un recado misterioso una promesa hecha a un amigo moribundo una propuesta inesperada un secreto que…
se remonta toda una vida Seis historias cuyo rumbo cambiar en un extraordinario viaje de Londres a Venecia Mientras el tren marcha salen a la luz relaciones confesiones y revelaciones Cuando los pasajeros lleguen a su destino su vida no volver a ser la misma www sumadeletras comJake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence
By David Guy. 2007
Jake is a Zen master and expert bicycle repairman who fixes flats and teaches meditation out of a shop in…
Bar Harbor, Maine. Hank is his long-time student. The aging Jake hopes that Hank will take over teaching for him. But the commitment-phobic Hank doesn't feel up to the job, and Jake is beginning to exhibit behavior that looks suspiciously like Alzheimer's disease. Is a guy with as many "issues" as Hank even capable of being a Zen teacher? And are those paradoxical things Jake keeps doing some kind of koan-like wisdom . . . or just dementia?These and other hard questions confront Hank, Jake, and the colorful cast of characters they meet during a week-long trip to the funky neighborhood of Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As they trek back and forth from bar to restaurant to YMCA to Zen Center to doughnut shop, answers arise--in the usual unexpected ways.Vertigo
By Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald. 2001
The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo,…
W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."