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The first book on painter and sculptor Sam Moyer, best known for her unique practice of combining remnants of stone and natural materials inlaid into painted canvas, creating powerfully expressive works.Sam Moyer has developed a distinctive language of abstraction, creating paintings, structures, and sculptural objects that draw inspiration from architectural space and natural materials. Recognized for a diverse practice in which she unites fo...

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Die junge Libertie Sampson soll in die Fußstapfen ihrer Mutter treten, einer schwarzen Ärztin, die nach Ende des Amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs gemeinsam mit ihrer Tochter viele Kriegsopfer behandeln muss. Auch wenn die Sklaverei endlich abgeschafft wurde, praktizieren die beiden Frauen in einer Welt voller Rassismus. Da liegt es nahe, dass Libertie ihren eigenen Weg finden möchte - jenseits des eigenen Pflichtgefühls und so weit wie möglich entf...

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Reader's guide and other special features inside.

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From the critically acclaimed and Whiting Award-winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman comes a book about what freedom actually means - and where to find it.

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The Freemans have moved to rural Massachusetts to care for and teach sign language to a chimpanzee as part of a research experiment. What begins as a story of family becomes an exploration of America's failure to find a language to talk about race.

“Smart, timely and powerful . . . A rich examination of America’s treatment of race, and the ways we attempt to discuss and confront it today.” —The Huffington Post The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. T...

This shattering novel is filled with storytelling sleight of hand. What appears to be a story of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history s long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration of America s failure to find a language to talk about race.