Butterflies and Tall Bikes

Butterflies and Tall Bikes

Author: Jamie Schumacher

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781732635029

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In the beautifully illustrated Butterflies and Tall Bikes, Jamie Schumacher combines personal narrative, compelling interviews, and neighborhood history in vignette-style chapters that paint a picture of the West Bank/Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and her time with the West Bank Business Association.


Bicycling with Butterflies

Bicycling with Butterflies

Author: Sara Dykman

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1643260456

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“What a wonderful idea for an adventure! Absolutely inspired, timely, and important.” —Alistair Humphreys, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and author of The Doorstep Mile and Around the World by Bike Outdoor educator and field researcher Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle along­side monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her panniers were recycled buckets. In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We’re beside her as she nav­igates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for monarch eggs, and shares her passion with eager schoolchil­dren, skeptical bar patrons, and unimpressed border officials. We also meet some of the ardent monarch stewards who supported her efforts, from citizen scientists and research­ers to farmers and high-rise city dwellers. With both humor and humility, Dykman offers a compelling story, confirming the urgency of saving the threatened monarch migration—and the other threatened systems of nature that affect the survival of us all.


The Butterfly Girl

The Butterfly Girl

Author: Betty Clarke-Palmer

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1460259211

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Missy is really excited to start second grade. While enjoying the first day's walk to school, a lovely butterfly suddenly swoops down and lands upon her hair-bow. She shoos him off, but he comes back to circle around several times. Every day after that, Mr. Flutterby Butterfly shows up with more and more of his friends, until Missy is fed up with all the fluttering insects pestering her. Then her mom has an idea for Missy to try which gets rid of them for the whole weekend. Now Missy is so lonely that she just wants them to come back, but she can't find them anywhere. Finally she has a brainstorm, tries it only to find it doesn't work - or so she thinks - until the schoolchildren show her otherwise.


Why Solange Matters

Why Solange Matters

Author: Stephanie Phillips

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1477320083

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Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister, Solange Knowles became a pivotal musician in her own right. Defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its rigid image of a Black woman, Solange continually experimented with her sound and embarked on a metamorphosis in her art that continues to this day. In Why Solange Matters, Stephanie Phillips chronicles the creative journey of an artist who became a beloved voice for the Black Lives Matter generation. A Black feminist punk musician herself, Phillips addresses not only the unpredictable trajectory of Solange Knowles's career but also how she and other Black women see themselves through the musician's repertoire. First, she traces Solange’s progress through an inflexible industry, charting the artist’s development up to 2016, when the release of her third album, A Seat at the Table, redefined her career. Then, with A Seat at the Table and 2019’s When I Get Home, Phillips describes how Solange embraced activism, anger, Black womanhood, and intergenerational trauma to inform her remarkable art. Why Solange Matters not only cements the place of its subject in the pantheon of world-changing twenty-first century musicians, it introduces its writer as an important new voice.


It's Never Going to Work: A Tale of Art and Nonprofits in the Minneapolis Community

It's Never Going to Work: A Tale of Art and Nonprofits in the Minneapolis Community

Author: Jamie Schumacher

Publisher: Jamie Schumacher

Published: 2018-09

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781732635005

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In It's Never Going To Work Jamie Schumacher, a tireless advocate of the arts, shines a spotlight on the Northeast Arts community, nonprofits, and Altered Esthetics. The nonprofit gallery she founded, Altered Esthetics continues to play a pivotal role in the Twin Cities art scene. This light hearted memoir offers real-life insights on founding a collaborative art space and provide critical resource to those engaged in, and struggling with, grassroots development. Vignette-style chapters peppered with illustrations by Athena currier energize the story and reflect Schumacher's own infections optimism and drive. Schumacher candidly shares the struggles and triumphs of starting a nonprofit in a new city, maintaining sustainability, and transitioning away from a healthy organization as it continues to thrive. The book is as much a love letter to Minneapolis as it is a compendium of encouragement who's ever been told, It's Never Going to Work.


The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-03-06

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0307454835

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A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.


The World of Bob Dylan

The World of Bob Dylan

Author: Sean Latham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1108499511

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This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world's most influential artists.


Butterflies of the Night

Butterflies of the Night

Author: Lisa Louis

Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Butterflies of the Night is an American woman's inside view of Japan's lively and powerful nightclub world. Includes interviews with women in both high-end clubs and the sleazy end of the business, as well as comments from customers of geisha houses as well as sex clubs.


Izzy Kline Has Butterflies

Izzy Kline Has Butterflies

Author: Beth Ain

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0399550801

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Izzy Kline is nervous about her first day of fourth grade, and with new changes at home, there are plenty of reasons for her to feel the butterflies in her stomach.


Magic Square

Magic Square

Author: J. E. Hook

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-03-13

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0557303834

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Ten year Margie feels trapped by the limits set by her parents. As she watches the neighborhood boys head out every day, she yearns for adventure she can never find on her block. But her freedom will come with a price.