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When he was nine years old, Paul Polson lay on his bed in his family home, burning up with fever. He experienced a "vision" during that fever that repeated itself several times throughout his life. The message was clear during the vision, but Paul couldn't describe it when he woke. What it did do was give him confidence that he could do anything he wanted and succeed.
In The Vision, he shares his story: A lifelong passion for the arts and a quest...
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I want to introduce you to my third book of photographs, Farewell to Valparaiso, that describes my feelings at the time to say good-bye to a loved city where I lived in my adolescence and young adult life. This book is intended to reach an audience of people interested in knowing the suffering of those that were forced to leave their roots behind and not knowing if they will ever come back to them.
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Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of course, no question of mental grasp or capacity or artistic endowment. I am, so far as these are concerned, merely the man in the street, the averagely endowed and the ordinarily educated. I call myself a Puritan and a Christian. I run continually against walls of convention,...
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“Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder
Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused
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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
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Recién cumplidos los trece años, en plenos años 50, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa se fue a vivir con sus tíos a Cabo Juby, cerca de la frontera con el Sáhara Occidental en Marruecos. Al principio, un Alberto adolescente pensó que no podría soportar la soledad de aquel remoto e inhóspito lugar que parecía maldito. Pero el tiempo le haría cambiar de opinión; la escuela del desierto le transformaría para siempre y cuando años más tarde tuvo...
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Rolling Stone magazine recognized Love's third album, "Forever Changes," as number 40 in their Special Collector's Issue and hard cover edition, entitled, "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time." I was profiled in Bob Cianci's Hal Leonard Publication, "Great Rock Drummers of The Sixties. Our album, "Forever Changes" was inducted into The Grammy Hall of Fame. "Forever Changes" was added into the National Archives, Library of Congress' National Recording...
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En la ciudad dormida' es un libro de viajes en el que hay más libro que viajes. En él se visitan los cementerios de París en busca de las sepulturas de algunos escritores, en cuya vida se ha querido ver la memoria de la Europa moderna. De Villiers de L'Isle Adam a Cioran, de Gautier, a Baudelaire, y tantos otros. Una memoria que, tras los atentados de 2016, propiciaba que pendiesen sobre la ciudad varios interrogantes. "Y tal vez siguiendo el rastro...
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J'ose me mettre à nu pour vous raconter mon expérience de vie personnelle. A travers tous les coups durs que j'ai reçus, c'est grâce à ma résilience et ma ténacité que j'ai pu me rendre o j'en suis aujourd'hui. Je souhaite procurer aux lecteurs l'espoir de traverser leurs moments difficiles car comme l'a si bien dit Mère Teresa, la vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter.
Dans ma jeunesse, j'ai vécu l'enfer...
10) My Father My Faith: A Daughter's Inspiring True Story of Medical Advocacy and Love's Ability to Heal
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Alexander Toth was an American cartoonist, born June 25, 1928 in New York, New York. He was known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera, as well as a long list of work for DC Comics, Dell Comics, Golden Key Comics, Marvel Comics, Standard Comics and Warren Publishing. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990.
He passed away May 27, 2006 in Burbank, California at his drawing table. He was survived by his...
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Book Preview: #1 My granddaddy, who was a moonshiner in Georgia, was the only black man I've ever met who was never broke a day in his life. He stored his jugs of corn liquor in the living room in a beat-up old refrigerator.
#2 I grew up in a bootleg house with my nine siblings, and I hated it. I would go to sleep hoping that I would wake up and find myself magically living in a clean...
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Get the Summary of Stephanie Storey's Oil and Marble in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Oil and Marble" by Stephanie Storey is a historical drama set in Renaissance Florence, where Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti engage in a fierce rivalry. Leonardo, observing the decay of his "The Last Supper," is forced to flee Milan due to political threats, leaving behind unfinished works. In Rome, Michelangelo...
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Calvé, avant d'être chansonnier, poète ou musicien, est assurément un des grands humanistes de la chanson québécoise et pourtant universelle, puisque sa chanson est de toutes latitudes et de tous horizons. Elle se cherche autant qu'elle nous trouve, toujours en douceur comme pour ne pas déranger, s'insinuant au cœur des sentiments pour prendre son sel et saumurer l'éternité du rêve.
D'aussi loin qu'il m'en souvienne, les chansons de Calvé...
16) Junín 1960
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Una memoria desde la infancia sobre la vida colectiva en un espacio y época especiales de la ciudad: la carrera Junín en los sesenta.
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One of the most influential art collectors of our time and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi reveals his opinions on collecting, artists, dealers, advertising and investing in art with unflinching honesty. Famously reclusive, he has answered questions asked to him by journalists, critics and the general public about the art world and his personal life.
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Aislarse por completo o celebrar fiestas multitudinarias, recurrir a los estupefacientes o a la vida saludable, renunciar a los hijos o dejar que pululen por el studio. Los modos de enfrentarse a la creación son innumerables, como refleja el irónico y sagaz testimonio de las protagonistas de este libro.
Pintoras, compositoras, escultoras, científicas, cineastas e intérpretes revelan las pequeñas y grandes decisiones que tuvieron que tomar en...
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Book Preview: #1 The basketball was a Keaton prop for years to come. In 1899, the family's first paid engagement as a trio at the Wonderland Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Buster got laughs by bouncing the ball off his father's head.
#2 Buster's life as a performer and creator was extremely successful for the first three decades of the new century, catapulting his family from the...
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The filming of the first horror films coincides with the creation of the actual cinema. Various actors, having experienced stage debut, will then be offered roles of iconic characters from Gothic fantasy literature. This was the case of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, known worldwide for their interpretations of the monster “Frankenstein” and “Count Dracula”.
Therefore, two superstars in both senses of the term, who knew to impose, at the...
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