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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
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In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The mother of the bestselling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison finally tells her own heartbreaking story of her Southern Gothic childhood, tormented marriage, motherhood, mental breakdown, and journey back to sanity and contentment, in luminous, evocative prose.
Author
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An autobiography of artist Audrey Flack, from her early days as a young woman artist in the midst of the male-dominated Abstract Expressionist movement to the peak of her career as a pioneer of Photorealism"--
11) Louise Bourgeois
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Louise was a little girl, her mother died. She learned to express her feelings through drawing--and when she grew up, she turned these drawings into sculpture, confronting her own fears through art. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the artist's life.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Draws on newly uncovered archives to reveal Houdini's secret work as a spy for the United States and England, his post-war efforts to expose the fraudulent activities of spiritualist mediums, and the plot organized by Arthur Conan Doyle to have him murdered.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Melanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiple college degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also had a few mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and rotten relationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who needed a good kick in the pants, literally and metaphorically. In early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanie turned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean...
17) Stuart Davis
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Series
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams Pub. in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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