A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making
Martine is a girl who is always ready to greet the day with a smile on her face, a bounce in her step, and a great big HELLO! When a hurricane named Willis takes away her neighborhood's sweet smells, pretty colors, and beautiful music, it isn't long before Martine comes up with a plan to bring joy back into the lives of neighbors and friends.
The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girlsNine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up Fifth Ave in Manhattan, not by Susan B. Anthony, but by ...
Sarasa and the first-year class wave goodbye to the graduating second-years, including their beloved mentors. With the new school year starting, that means that Sarasa and her friends are the second-years now, and their new underclassmen are going to be a handful! Can the girls be good "big sisters" to the newbies?"--Publisher marketing.
For most of us, prayer is a struggle. We know we should pray. It would be good for us--help us be more grounded, more connected to God. But in our hurried lives, slowing down to pray can feel like a cosmic waste of time. Do our prayers even matter? What, if anything, happens when we pray? Are we having words with God or just words with ourselves? In this thoughtful book, Addison Bevere takes you into and through the tension of prayer--the stru...
?Exquisite and gripping. . . . The Gulf is a page turner to be savored, Cochran is a master of both prose and plot.??Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother's LoversIn this electrifying debut literary thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women's liberation movement, a closeted young woman attempts to solve her surrogate mother's murder in a tight-knit, religious small town.?In Parson, Texas, a small town rava...
In just one raised bed, author Huw Richards shows you how to grow vegetables easily, organically, abundantly and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Month by month, discover what you need to do and how to do it. Try it in your allotment, a small garden, or even on a roof terrace. Everything is explained in clear, photographed steps"--
How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed.In early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or cr...
Lucas Connolly's best friend and first love Jamie died during World War I, a decade later, Lucas is still riddled with guilt over his role in his passing. But it's only when a specter that looks and sounds exactly like Jamie begins to haunt him that Lucas finally forces himself to reckon with his past?even though doing so may destroy his tenuous hold on sanity.
Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog-wal...
A timely examination, through the dual lenses of culture and climate change, of the profound ecological awareness that has characterized Islamic visual traditions
Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis's New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade of Sherman Williams that a peeping Tom once left a sticky note with the doorman asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge that the magic of Helen's marriage unfolds: Shindigs where strangers swap clothing in the powder room, a party game called 'What's in the box?' makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piec...
Explores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do.Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi.This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and rough sounds, spanning from the most extreme heavy metal to the ...