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Celebrate the legacy of the African-American family through photographs by the best black photographers - past and present. As the anniversary of the Million Man March draws near, these photographs symbolize the commitment to family and community made in Washington, D.C., in October 1995. The moving text by Michael Cottman explores the families of men who participated in the March and examines how their lives and commitments have been strengthened...
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Renowned photographer Don Farber, one of the most important chroniclers of Buddhism today, brings the face and the spirit of contemporary Tibetan Buddhism alive with this remarkable book. Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters---a collection of superb color photographs presented with brief biographies and teachings from each master---is a vibrant work, a testament to the compassion and wisdom that lies at the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition....
51) Icons
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Markus Klinko and Indrani--the hottest team in celebrity and fashion photography--have produced album covers for Beyonce, Mariah Carey, and David Bowie, and shot everyone from Lady Gaga to Kate Winslet, Jay-Z, Lindsay Lohan, and Naomi Campbell. As former stars of the Bravo series Double Exposure and in past lives as a recording artist and top model, respectively, Markus and Indrani have spent most of their lives in front of the cameras, giving them...
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With the 70th anniversary of the Korean War coming up, Canton's historical society and library team up to honor the occasion and many local veterans. Amy Allen is especially eager to visit the portrait of her great-uncle Raymond, who served and died as a helicopter pilot in the war. However, things take a shocking turn when Amy and her sister, Tracy, are alerted that someone vandalized the portrait of their uncle! What possible motive could someone...
56) A study in death
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Seeking a respite from her pregnant sister's wedding plans in 19th-century Scotland, Lady Kiera Darby accepts a commission to paint the portrait of an abused baroness who is subsequently murdered.
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In 1906 there arrived at Lame Deer, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, a petite, teenage bride named Julia Tuell. With her school-master husband she would live among the Cheyennes, then briefly among the Sac and Fox tribe in Oklahoma and finally (for more than a decade) with the Lakota (Sioux) on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Realizing the fleeting beauty of Plains Indian culture, a beauty fading before her eyes, Julia...
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Brief biographies of George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, John Marshall, Leonard Calvert, Jean Baptists le Moyne de Bienville, James Oglethorpe, Etienne de Bore, John Sevier, William Dunbar, Daniel Boone, William Richardson Davie, Andrew Jackson, Pushmataha, William C.C. Claiborne, Sequoyah, Samuel Dale, William Harris Crawford, Henry Clay, John Caldwell Calhoun, John McDonogh,...
60) The phantom tree
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Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait-identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than four hundred years ago.
The painting of Mary...