Weir, Keziah
Summary: From an acclaimed senior editor at Vanity Fair comes an intoxicating debut novel about a young journalist who discovers a short story that's inexplicably about her life--leading to an entanglement with the author's widow, daughter, and former best friend. Sal Cannon's life is in shambles. Her relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after its revealed that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A young boy can feel small in a world made up of big, big things, but when he takes a closer look, he discovers that he is big, too"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CRED'Amelio, Joseph.
Summary: This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing. Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 2003
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Summary: From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Soc Emo McConaugheySummary: A family explores paintings and other masterpieces at the art museum. The paintings are brilliant and many of them have mathematical dimensions, whether visible or hidden. Elementary math concepts that relate to perspective, composition, symmetry, and other principles turn a stroll through the art museum into an eye-opening adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TanTan Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 700 MATFong, Pam
Summary: When a little puffin gets lost in a thick fog, he discovers the closer he moves in, the more he sees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303 KLOAverbeck, Jim
Summary: Encouraged by her teacher to approach her art assignment from new points of view, Sophia produces a piece she is proud of, but can she persuade her hard-to-impress family to take a chance on a different perspective?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AVEHonders, Christine
Summary: It's impossible to know exactly what other people are thinking, but if a person has perspective, it can be much easier to have an idea of those thoughts. This volume introduces students to the idea of perspective-taking, or seeing things from another person's point of view. Students will learn that perspective-taking can help them build better relationships with friends and family. They will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 302 HONJo, Jae-eun
Summary: A little girl learns where things are - in her house, in the garden, at the park, and other places - up, down, and middle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the United States and Canada by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2016
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Summary: Line goes straight on her way, while Scribble wanders and zigzags, but they are still best friends and can work together with their individual perspectives to make art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VOGHoefler, Kate
Summary: "They came in the dark, and took the narrow path that only witches used. Everyone said that's what they were . . .But what if everyone was wrong? Watch what happens when one girl steps into the woods and gets to know these newcomers. The spooky black cat? Meet Mingus! The broomsticks and cloaks? Cloth and wooden handles. And those shadows in the sky? Handmade kites, fluttering in the breeze....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOEWenzel, Brendan
Summary: Told in rhyming text, Inside Cat views the world through many windows, watching the birds, squirrels, and people go by--but when the door opens it discovers a whole new view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Summary: In this blend of fiction, allegory, and inspiration, Andrews tells the story of Jones--a mysterious man who shows up when things look the darkest for the people of Orange Beach, Alabama, and whose unique gift of noticing things that others miss helps us understand why things happen and what we can do about it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grupo Nelson 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 ANDCole, Alison.
Summary: Text and accompanying photographs discuss the development of perspective theory and practice from the Renaissance to the cubists and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley, in association with National Gallery Publications, London 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 701.82 COLMacaulay, David.
Summary: Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1990
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott MacaulayGottlieb, Daniel
Summary: "The Wisdom We're Born With explores the desire to live that we carry with us from birth. While some people may believe that it's impossible to acquire perspective like Gottlieb's without a similarly catastrophic life experience, the fact is that every infant possesses a raw need to keep on going. Gottlieb's book awakens us to the idea of our natural perspective, traces the growth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 GOTLitten, Kristyna
Summary: Bertie the giraffe oversleeps and becomes separated from his herd, but a new friend helps him get home and gives him a new perspective in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LITMetzger, Philip W.
Summary: "How to create a sense of depth in your drawings and paintings."
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitney Library of Design 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 729 PILSummary: Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints ofseveral victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VIOLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAHMetzger, Philip W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.422 METWhite, Gwen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Batsford 1968