Romaine Brooks: A Life, Hardcover - Cassandra Langer

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative...

Written with a blend of humor and practical wisdom, "The Same Sweet Girl's Guide to Life" by Cassandra King offers inspiration and solid advice to ...

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Introducing the First Biography of the Life and Ministry of R. C. Sproul R. C. Sproul (1939-2017) was a pastor, a professor, an author, and the fou...

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From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Con...

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An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyonc . Daphne A. Brooks explo...

DescriptionA picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-20...

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DescriptionThe first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany--the artist and court insider whose wide-ranging legacy still reverberates to...

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DescriptionOn March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's wor...

The follow up to James Smith's international number one bestseller, Not a Diet Book.- Do you love your job?- Does your future excite you?- Are your...

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This book presents a guide to navigating the complicated issues of quality and process improvement in enterprise software implementation, and the e...

When did we stop connecting with other people? David Brooks argues that we can only solve our crisis of meaning at an emotional and moral level. Ar...

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Lightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably in...

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DescriptionDiscover the boundless creativity of a family passionate about artwork, where animator Thomas Romain adapts the drawings of his two youn...

DescriptionWhen an imaginative second-grader writes a school report about sea cows, the subject is not happy with her portrayal. Sea Cow--or Manate...