Birdcage Walk
Birdcage Walk

Author: Helen Dunmore

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1473535719

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Quietly brilliant ... among the best fiction of our time.' Daily Telegraph 'The finest novel Dunmore has written.' Observer 'Superb and poignant.' Guardian It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Diner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants. But as Diner's passion for Lizzie darkens, she soon finds herself dangerously alone. ______________ Nominated for the 2018 Independent Booksellers Week Award Longlisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author: Maya Angelou

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-07-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 030747772X

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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Zero
Zero

Author: Allen Hemberger

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781733008815

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Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage
Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1785659316

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The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1873, and as the economies of Europe threaten to crumble, Mycroft Holmes finds himself in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims, only a mysterious calling card. Meanwhile, Sherlock has already taken it upon himself to solve the case, as his interest in the criminal mind grows into an obsession. Mycroft begrudgingly allows Sherlock to investigate, as Ai Lin--the woman he is still in love with--needs his aid. Her fiancé has been kidnapped, and the only man who might know his fate is a ruthless arms dealer with a reputation for killing those who cross him. Mycroft persuades his friend Cyrus Douglas to help find the young man, but Douglas himself is put in harm's way. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for the Fire Four Eleven murderer, both he and Mycroft will discover that the greed of others is at the root of the evil they are trying to unearth...

Write About an Empty Birdcage
Write About an Empty Birdcage

Author: Elaina M. Elllis

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1935904299

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With an ironic swish of the skirt, Elaina M. Ellis has delivered a sweetly strange first collection of poems. Reinventing femininity with each teasing line-break, Ellis pulls sexuality from form, and vulnerability from meter. By turns playful, blunt, and prayerful, Write About an Empty Birdcage documents the painful end of a romantic relationship; revels in the budding of new desire; and ultimately allows hope to climb quietly in through the back window. The poems which explicitly explore identity -- femaleness, Jewishness, queerness -- do so with a critique of power that blends humor, bloodied confession, and a reverence for tension. Ellis is a new poet to watch out for, neither belonging to the full-open swing of spoken word, nor to the inaccessibility of academia: the sonnet is a torch song, the prose poem is a fist. Here you find all the fleshy reveal of the truth, without the ease of nakedness. Write About an Empty Birdcage is a book of poetry that is worth the work of undressing. Elaina M. Ellis has a voice that cuts through wool. Rich in sound and sense, meaning and madness, she signals and signifies. Her imagery comes from a place of truth and her people sweat and breathe. Hers is a talent that can set the world on fire. -Jenny Factor, Antioch University Los Angeles

The Siege
The Siege

Author: Helen Dunmore

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780802139580

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Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.

Mycroft and Sherlock
Mycroft and Sherlock

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Publisher: Titan Books

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1785659278

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The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes—now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office—has no interest in the killings; however his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration. When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate, following a trail of strange subterranean symbols to the squalid opium dens of the London docks. Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery, one that forces him to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is enriching his beloved Britain's coffers.As the stakes rise, the brothers find that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic consequences...

The Birdcage
The Birdcage

Author: Marcia Willett

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0552150630

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It was Felix who named it The Birdcage - the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress Angel, and Angel's daughter, Lizzie. It was Felix whom they all adored and who was so in love with Angel, but while Lizzie longed for a father, Felix had other commitments- to his insecure, possessive wife Marina and to their son Piers, both living at beautiful, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor. Many years later, when Lizzie comes at last to Michaelgarth and meets Piers for the first time, she finds a family in trouble - and which, miraculously, needs her to help them to heal. An evocative novel by the hugely popular author of THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.

Making and Transforming Art
Making and Transforming Art

Author: Hélène Dubois

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781909492165

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1. Dioscorides as an art technological source / Mark Clarke. 2. Academy and workshop: medieval transmission of late antique knowledge / Mark Clarke and Arie Wallert. 3. An elusive colorant: availability, preparation and use of anthocyanin colorants in European medieval illuminators' workshops / Sylvie Neven and Jana Sanyova. 4. Paint it red: vermilion manufacture in the Middle Ages / Stefanos Kroustallis and Rocio Bruquetas. 5. Medieval sculptures re-polychromed and re-gilded in the nineteenth century by Adrien Hubert Bressers / Delphine Steyaert. 6. 'This they use in Madrid': the ground layer in paintings on canvas in 17th-century Madrid / Maite Jover de Celis and Dolores Gayo. 7. Van Dyck and de Mayerne: a cautionary note regarding the manuscript / Rica Jones. 8. Materials for painting and gilding used in the Benedictine community of Portugal 1638-1822: other times, other ways / Agnès Le Gac, Paulo Oliveira, Isabel Dias Costa and Maria João Dias Costa. 9. Evolutions and transformations of harpsichords in France in the 17th and 18th centuries / Christine Laloue and Jean-Philippe Echard. 10. Manufacturing techniques and the art of wax modelling: from the sculptor's studio to the anatomical workshop / Alicia Sánchez Ortiz and Sandra Micó Boró. 11. Combining different types of sources for a better understanding of tempera painting around 1900 / Patrick Dietemann and Wibke Neugebauer. 12. Interpretation of documentary sources for the industrial preparation of 'zinc white' in the 19th century / Nicholas Eastaugh, Jilleen Nadolny and Weronika Swiech. 13. Hans Heysen's art materials: an investigation into suppliers, knowledge and choice / Rosemary Diana Heysen and Nicole Andrea Tse. 14. Jean Tinguely's script for Homage to New York (1960) / Reinhard Bek and Christine Frohnert. 15. Recent publications on art technological source research / Ad Stijnman. 16. 'Colour ConText': a database on colour practice and colour knowledge in pre-modern Europe / Sylvie Neven, Karin Leonhard and Sven Dupré. 17. Four paintings from St. Jerome's College, Coimbra, Portugal: conservation, technique and treatises / Vanessa Antunes, Mercês Lorena, Vítor Serrão, Virgínia Gomes, Maria José Oliveira, Luís Dias, António Candeias, Ana Isabel Seruya and João Coroado. 18. Glass and parchment with a view: oil paint and the imitation of (stained) glass windows 1400-1600 / Marjolijn Bol, Henk de Groot and Arie Wallert.

Woven Tapestry
Woven Tapestry

Author: Ksynia Marko

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781909492721

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From the Middle Ages, tapestries with figurative or other ornament were used by royalty and aristocrats to furnish their palaces and houses. While often observed as two dimensional art, they are three dimensional structures requiring specialist skill to maintain and conserve them. Since the vast majority of tapestries are on open display in historic interiors they pose particular conservation and interpretation challenges.00This publication aims to help conservators carry out assessments in order to arrive at appropriate options for treatment by focussing on: the techniques of tapestry manufacture; agents of deterioration, and current practice of methods of cleaning, methods of support and repair.