Gordon Parks: No Excuses
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story $4.24 Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was So Young–one of the best reviewed books of 1995–Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating… |
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Georgia O’Keeffe (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists) $2.99 Expose children to the fine works of famous master artists at an early age. Clever full-color illustrations and often humorous text teach and entertain at the same time, while providing a light, yet realistic overview of each artist’s life and style of painting. Large print with Grade 2 reading level makes for easy reading for young children. Each comes with 32 pp. and full-color reproductions. So… |
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Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) $7.11 Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York’s Central Park to Boston’s Emerald Necklace to Stanford University’s campus, Olmsted was also an influential journalist, early voice for the environment, and abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joi… |
