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3) The brethren
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Annie's people volume 3
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Annie Zook, the Amish preacher's daughter, is caught between two worlds. Living with shunned friend Esther, Annie longs to return to her forbidden art and the idyllic days spent with Englisher Ben Martin, before her father ordered her never to see him again. Stunned when family secrets come to light, Ben determines to solve the mystery of his past. Will his future include Annie--or will the Brethren always stand between them?
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Delve into the exquisitely creative mind of award-winning Australian make-up artist Chereine Waddell, as she reveals and conceals childhood memories re-constructed through over sixty unique make-up designs. Each mesmerising image captures distinct moments in time for the artist, who provides vivid descriptions of the emotional junctures that promoted the inspiration for the painting of each face. Intimate and emotive, Beyond the Face is a book for...
8) The Northway
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This hilarious, imaginative book packs cigarette butts, Buddhist prayer flags, a spastic colon, Leviathan jaws, and gnats reincarnating as neonatal nurses into just one poem. Others say "Yes, to grunts and drooling"; find a Zen master in a bobcat spotted while driving; and experience an epiphany while driving with closed eyes. Bellamy's humor is a lens exposing our foibles, fears, and loveliness. Her unstinting, self-implicating humor skewers culture,...
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Si hiciésemos una encuesta para saber cuántos pintores conocemos, la mayoría consultada mencionaría a Goya, Velázquez o Van Gogh, pero con seguridad no se hallaría a ninguna mujer en esta lista. Como si no hubiesen existido, pero no es verdad, existieron muchas y excelentes pintoras.
¿Por qué no las conocemos? Porque a lo largo de los siglos han estado escondidas en conventos en el Medievo o dedicándose a labores domésticas en el Renacimiento...
10) Women
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WOMEN is a powerful visual representation of the journey that women travel. It combines aesthetic beauty, symbols, and visual metaphors to trigger emotions and responses to enduring gender inequalities in all areas of life. This book is an urgent call to action that echoes the voices of over 70 women aged 11 to 80+ years from 50 countries. They speak on what makes women cry, their coping mechanisms when facing discrimination, violence, exploitation,...
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Nuestra historia la componen con esfuerzo, audacia y esperanza, todas las gentes, día a día, pero muchas de sus protagonistas habían sido eclipsadas, arrinconadas injustamente.
En este libro se da cuenta del relevante papel -hasta ahora despreciado- de sacerdotisas y guerreras, reinas niñas y amantes, científicas y humanistas, comediantas y revolucionarias, artistas primitivas y jóvenes millenials... Todas ellas forjan el pasado mientras escriben...
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Riverhead Books
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2016.
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"A memoir of mothers and daughters -- and mothers as daughters -- traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers -- French-born New Yorker art director Fran?oise Mouly -- exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2019]
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"Gyo Fujikawa's iconic children's books are beloved all over the world. Now it's time for Gyo's story to be told--a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations. Growing up quiet and lonely at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity. Her teachers and family believed in her and sent her to art school and later Japan,...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2023.
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To avoid a ruinous scandal after one desperate mistake, Miss Camilla Antonius enters a devil's bargain with the Prince of Envy, who whisks her away to the Underworld where her true nature is awakened-and where they must avoid the most dangerous trap of all: love.
Sinner. Villain. Ruthless.These are wicked names the Prince of Envy welcomes. They remind him what he isn't: a saint. And when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly...
16) Artwords
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Artwords is precisely that. Art and words combined to form a fusion of art and literature. This work is composed of colorful literary artworks consisting of calligrams, photographs, and redactive poetry.
They are different forms of writing which can be both read and appreciated visually.
Words have power. Words form images. But what if they formed images you could see with your eyes? Being both an artist and a writer, has led Beatriz Robles to want...
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Mujer o árbol aborda algunos de los mitos centrales de la mujer en el imaginario contemporáneo. Roberta Ann Quance analiza la presencia de estos mitos en las obras de autores como García Lorca, Hilda Doolittle, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, etc., así como en las pinturas de Ángeles Santos,?Remedios Varo y Frida Kahlo, en las fotografías de Graciela Iturbide y en la iconografía popular, especialmente latinoamericana.?Entre todos, destaca por...
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Musing at Mont Blanc dives into the deep crevices of the European Alps with inspiring glaciers and the rare beauty of two women, 200 years apart, confronting their intimate relationship with the natural world for unexpected outcomes. Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft created Dr. Frankenstein and Rosalinda discovered the unique landscape that inspired the novel, whilst creating her own poetic canvas.
How does it feel to follow these women on their paths?...
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Tras una introducción en la que la autora realiza un repaso a su trayectoria intelectual y a los temas esenciales del análisis visual, el libro ofrece por primera vez en lengua castellana algunas de las intervenciones más relevantes de la producción de Mieke Bal, llegando hasta los textos más recientes sobre los ensayos visuales, el análisis fílmico y el trabajo de comisariado. En cierta manera, es un mapa de los diferentes conceptos y problemas...
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