![]() Alli fue donde desarrollo su estilo caracteristico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Estudio pintura en Paris en los anos 1930 con Fernand Leger, entre otros. ![]() ![]() A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.Ĭlement Hurd (1908-1988) se graduo de Yale University. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. ![]() He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Leger and others in the early 1930s. Toklas.Ĭlement Hurd (1908-1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. Her books include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. ![]() With her brother Leo she was an important patron of the arts, acquiring works by many contemporary artists, most famously Picasso, while her home became a popular meeting place for writers and painters from Matisse to Hemingway. She was educated in France and the United States, worked under the pioneering psychologist William James, and later studied medicine. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was born in Pittsburgh to a prosperous German-Jewish family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She needs someone to help her, defend her…and the kids. ![]() Now I'm going to Mommy & Me classes, One Direction concerts, the emergency room, and arguing cases in the principal's office.Ĭhelsea’s too sweet, too innocent, and too gorgeous for her own good. Then Chelsea McQuaid and her six orphaned nieces and nephews came along and complicated the ever-loving hell out of my life. I’m not a therapist or Prince Charming-and I don’t pretend to be. If you’re my date, stick to what will turn you on. If you’re my client, tell me the basic facts. In the third unforgettable book by New York Times bestseller Emma Chase, Matthew Fisherthe best friend of Drew Evans from Tangled and Twistedwants to settle down, but he’ll have to overcome. In fact, it’s necessary when I’m breaking down a witness on the stand.Ĭomplications don’t work for me-I’m a “need-to-know” type of man. I, Jake Becker, have a reputation for being cold, callous, and intimidating-and that suits me just fine. When you’re a defense attorney in Washington, DC, you see firsthand how hard life can be, and that sometimes the only way to survive is to be harder. A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. ![]() ![]() Will she stay true to the country she barely remembers, or has her loyalty shattered along with her identity? They need her active now.īetween her cover as a high school girl-juggling a homecoming dance, history reports, and an increasingly suspicious boyfriend-and her mission in this high-stakes spy game, the boundaries of her two lives are beginning to blur. ![]() Perun no longer needs her at the CIA in five years’ time. Grandpa Albert loves her, and her strategically chosen boyfriend, Grant, is amazing.īut things are about to change. There, Milena learned everything she needed to infiltrate the life of CIA analyst Albert Gastone, Alexandra’s grandfather, and the ranks of America’s top intelligence agency.įor seven years, “Alexandra” has been on standby and life’s been good. Milena was trained to be a sleeper agent by Perun, a clandestine organization from her true homeland of Olissa. She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash. ![]() ![]() ![]() When your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real?Īlexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In dialogue with writer and photographer Teju Cole, Azoulay will discuss her practice of what she calls “potential history,” a way of seeing the world that argues for an account of photography's origin, history, practice, and future as part of the imperial world we continue to live in.Ĭopies of Azoulay’s new book, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, ($45) or Teju Cole’s acclaimed books Blind Spot ($40) and Human Archipelago ($45) will be available for purchase at the event. ![]() In Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (fall 2019), Ariella Azoulay forces us to reckon with photography’s active, not simply observational, role in the history of imperialism. Listen to an audio recording of this conversation.īrown University professor Ariella Azoulay discusses her new book, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, with writer and photographer Teju Cole. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alice is done with dating-no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done.īut then Alice meets Takumi and she can't stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and swoons, oh my!). ![]() The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting-working at the library to pay her share of the rent. ![]() Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Īlice had her whole summer planned. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because she is in stasis during the voyage from Earth to Sagan, she is only 13 by the time the novel ends. The story is told from the first-person perspective of 12-year-old Petra Peña. ![]() The story begins on Earth in the summer of 2061 but concludes 380 years later, on a distant planet called Sagan. This study guide and all of its page citations are based on the Kindle edition of the novel. Some material may be intense for younger readers, though the overall tone of the book is hopeful, despite its dystopian classification. It is intended for readers aged 10 and up. The novel falls into the genres of children’s dystopian science fiction and children’s fantasy. Her feelings for this environment are lovingly rendered, emphasizing the stakes for the novel’s characters as Earth is on the cusp of destruction. ![]() Higuera grew up in the central California desert in a landscape similar to the setting she describes at the beginning of The Last Cuentista. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of several books of poetry including Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, The List of Dangers, and Nesting Dolls. ![]() This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next? Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem "Good Bones," started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. She'll be in conversation with poet Molly Spencer.Įnjoying At Home with Literati? Donate $5 to sustain our programming here. We're pleased to welcome Maggie Smith to our At Home with Literati series of virtual events in support of Keep Moving. ![]() ![]() ![]() We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or unable to function in many of today’s developing countries-with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.įrancis Fukuyama, author of the best-selling The End of History and The Last Man, and one of our most important political thinkers, provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. ![]() Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. ![]() ![]() Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions that included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their commander thinks Rachel's intuition could make her a great cop, but has reservations about her shoot-first-think-later approach, so she partners her with Janet. Rachel Bailey couldn't be more different-she's energetic, impulsive, and ambitious, and has just been transferred to the Manchester murder squad. She's put in the time and seen it all, but has no desire for the boss's job-she loves her own too much. "A riveting, sharply observed and thoroughly modern police procedural featuring a stellar but unlikely female dectective team, perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Deborah Crombie Detective Constable Janet Scott is subtle and reliable, a diplomatic thinker with a wry sense of humor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But these newest residents are confronted with even darker secrets than the arcane knowledge they all covet, for they are the linchpins in a conspiracy that could either save the world or utterly destroy it.įor a book with such a melodramatic premise (think “Big Brother,” but half the cast can read their companions’ minds and the other half can conjure actual black holes), Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Six is curiously matter-of-fact, dispensing with on-page relationship drama and coasting through tense fight scenes with brevity. This year, Caretaker Atlas Blakely has selected a sextet of particularly ambitious young medeians: three physical mediums, who specialize in manipulating external forces and energies for purposes as varied as deflecting bullets and obtaining midnight snacks and three nascent masters of the mental, emotional and perceptual magics of reading minds and concealing acne. The half-dozen potential initiates are brought to the Society’s headquarters, where they study and learn from the greatest compendium of magical knowledge that has ever existed. Every 10 years, the secretive Alexandrian Society, inheritors of the lost knowledge from its namesake library, recruits six of the most powerful young magic users, or medeians, to join their ranks. ![]() |