Ellis, Estelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 707 ELLUpdike, John.
Summary: In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed "Just Looking "(1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" ("Newsday") in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" ("The New York Times Book Review"). " Always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 UpdikeMatar, Hisham
Summary: "After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATPham, Larissa
Summary: Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay PhamNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 NGUSummary: M.J. Clayton is a high profile Chicago art critic who is known for his heartless commentaries. He retreats to his Mackinac Island cottage to clear his head after receiving a scolding from his boss. There he runs into a recent victim of one of his particularly nasty reviews and makes a drunken proclamation. This is followed by an impossible wager which he then finds himself entered into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MTI Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Summary: Ads targeting girls between the ages of 8 and 12 employ an increasing level of sexuality. Are advertisers responding to neo-feminist notions of "girl power" or are they leading girls toward harmful self-images? This program examines the trend by following a group of tween girls through their daily lives, recording their perceptions of fashion, celebrities, boys, and themselves. Interviews with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The development of authentic self-esteem and a healthy sense of self has always been a vitally important part of growing up. But this process is a challenge that has gotten even trickier to negotiate due to the widespread integration of digital technology into everyday living. Drawing on the insights of a clinical psychologist/family therapist, an adolescent psychologist, and a number of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Quindlen, Anna
Summary: "Write for Your Life is a guide for those who don't, won't, or think they can't write, what Anna Quindlen calls 'civilians.' Using examples past, present and future--from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison to members of her own family--Quindlen makes vivid all the ways in which writing connects us, to ourselves and to those we cherish. From love letters written after World War II to journal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word QuindlenPearsall, Shelley
Summary: April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a buddy bench monitor for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PEAThompson, Donald N.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.05 THOVis̆tica, Olinka
Summary: The tiny museum that has become an international phenomenon offers a crowdsourced book that celebrates the objects that outlast love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 VISChapman, Clay McLeod
Summary: "Richard doesn't have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son Elijah, a quiet but pleasant life as an art teacher at Elijah's elementary school, and the dream of becoming a real artist some day. Then the body of a rabbit, ritualistically murdered, appears on the school playground with a birthday card for Richard tucked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: The long friendship between art historian Leo Hertzberg and artist Bill Wechsler leads to a growing involvement between their two families as they deal with the joys, sorrows, tragedies, and loss that transform their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSAmend, Allison.
Summary: Compelled by a tragic loss into a crisis that jeopardizes her family and elite career, Elmira converges with talented artist Gabriel, who embarks on a desperate scheme to advance himself in Parisian cultural circles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEWinterson, Jeanette
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINAnderson, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.352 ANDSummary: A portrait of the extraordinary painter who chronicled the life and times of his friend King Philip the Fourth, who built the core of the Prado collection (which today houses almost all of his work), and who, with El Greco, Goya, and Picasso, comprises the quartet of the greatest painters of Spain.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Gibbs, Stuart
Summary: Bruce Wayne, the only kid in school without super powers, gets called to the principal because his career choice of vigilantism is deemed too ambitious, and he becomes even more determined to prove he belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2023
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Summary: "In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs - along with the collective mindsets in our organizations - combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own immunities to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 KEGMarkey, Charlotte N.
Summary: "From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of eating disorder cases. What can we tell our boys to help them feel happy and confident simply being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Health MarkeyCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.4 MARMaricle, Amy
Summary: "Whether you enjoy drawing and doodling or are looking for a way to de-stress, boost creativity, and reconnect with what matters most, this appealing guide will invite you in to the soothing art of slow drawing. With 25 nature-inspired patterns designed to relax the mind, Draw Yourself Calm provides a welcome break from our stressful, always-on world. Ditch perfectionism, tune in to the moment,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: A radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy reflects the author's explorations into the workings of human perception and how they are reflected by gender bias, the mind-body challenge, and neurological disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HUSFahmy, Huda
Summary: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023