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Summary: "A picture book biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, with an emphasis on her sustainable homestead in Abiquiu, New Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 O'KEFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe is famously known for her colorful, large paintings of flowers, but this artist's portfolio expands far beyond Jack-in-the-pulpits. In this book, young readers will learn about O'Keeffe's childhood in Wisconsin and her years as a talented art school teacher. Her years as an artist in both New York and New Mexico, two areas that are heavily represented in her artwork, reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)
Summary: Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents—a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar—but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari’s extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VASARI, GIORGIO ROWDuster, Michelle
Summary: Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLS, IDA B. DUSVieweg, Klaus
Summary: "A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most famous man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Friederich Wilhelm Hegel. Hegel, the most famous figure in modern philosophy, arguably its father, believed that to philosophize is to learn to live freely. He was slow and cautious in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH VIEPacker, George
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, wholly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most familiar song the rollicking 1978 hit Werewolves of London Zevon s smart, often satirical songbook is rich with cinematic, literary, and comic qualities; dark narratives; complex characters; popular culture references; and tender, romantic ballads of parting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZEVON, WARREN PLAGeorge-Warren, Holly
Summary: This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOPLIN, JANIS GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JANIS JOPLIN GEOGeorge, Alice L.
Summary: On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a. rocket and soared into space. . . He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLENN, JOHN GEOSlade, Suzanne
Summary: "With rhythmic swirls of words and pictures, Suzanne Slade and Stacy Innerst beautifully reveal just how brilliantly Gershwin reached inside his head to create his masterpiece, Rhapsody in Blue. It's a surprising and whirlwind composition of notes and sounds and one long wail of a clarinet-dazzling and daring, just like George Gershwin himself!"--[from book jacket]
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2016
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Summary: "As a young girl in Cuba, Alicia Alonso practiced ballet in tennis shoes. Within a few years, she was in New York City, with a promising ballet career. But her eyesight began to fail. When Alicia needed surgeries to save her vision, dancing was impossible, but she wouldn't give up her dream. She found the strength and determination to return to the stage and become a prima ballerina. This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALOCooper, Anderson
Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021