Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
By: Miles J. Unger
3.84
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
One of The Christian Science Monitor ’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 When Picasso became the sto…
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1. What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
By: Will Gompertz
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, art history with a sense of humorEvery year, millions of… read more
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- cultural
- art history
- art
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
"It is Duchamp who is to blame for the whole “is it art?"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Picasso is said to have once mused that it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to learn to paint like a child."-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"We'll be fine’, Pierre-Auguste Renoir said assertively. ‘We are good artist; we know that. Remember what Baudelaire said before he died: "Nothing can be done except little by little." That is what we…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Porque no pienso que la cuestion de fondo resida en juzgar si una obra nueva de arte contemporaneo es buena o mala: el tiempo se encargará de eso. es más importante comrpender de qué modo y por qué e…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
2. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
By: Philip Mould
3.75
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun What separates … read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Stern Men
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
4.00
Format: 32 pages,
John Irving wishes. That he could be as mordantly funny as Elizabeth Gilbert, that is. With the pub… read more
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- audiobook
4. A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1)
By: Deborah Crombie
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Du… read more
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- audiobook
5. Men Without Women
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.60
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short ficti… read more
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"The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning."-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
6. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Death in the Stacks (Library Lover's Mystery, #8)
By: JM
3.65
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the latest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Timesbestselling author of Better Late Than… read more
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8. The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen
3.98
Format: 240 pages,
TRAVIS McGEE He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knig… read more
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9. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
By: Ross King
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelange… read more
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10. Bluebeard
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.06
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more
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- art
"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
11. Vertigo
By: Geoffrey Sainsbury , Boileau-Narcejac
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
L'histoire se deroule en France, durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Flavieres, ancien inspecteur de… read more
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12. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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13. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
By: Mark Adams
3.64
Format: 211 pages,
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14. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
16. Van Gogh: The Life
By: Steven Naifeh
4.18
Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more
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- art history
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- france
- audiobook
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life
17. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- art history
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
18. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
By: Brad Gooch
4.39
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“It’s all the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more
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- art history
- art
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
19. How Can I Help You
By: Laura Sims
3.42
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. N… read more
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- audiobook
20. A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
By: Gregory May
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally co… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
21. The Plot and the Pendulum (Library Lover's Mystery, #13)
By: Jenn McKinlay
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary… read more
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22. Killer Research (Library Lover's Mystery, #12)
By: Jenn McKinlay
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Spring has sprung in Briar Creek, but it is not all sunshine and roses, in the newest Library Lover… read more
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23. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.84
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When Washington became president of the United States, he was still wrestling with the meaning of the American Revolution. He'd entered the conflict an unrepentant Virginia slaveholder. By the end of…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
24. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
By: Andrew Roberts
4.25
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
25. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
26. The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"All words are made up," I said. "That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
27. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- audiobook
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
28. A Brushstroke with Death (An Owl and Crescent Mystery #1)
By: Bethany Blake
3.92
Format: 343 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Near the creek that runs behind her Pennsylvania house, Willow Bellamy has converted an old barn in… read more
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29. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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30. See What You're Missing
By: Will Gompertz
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'Art can amaze us into changing our minds. This remarkable book teaches us how' En Devlin Artists … read more
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- art history
- history
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31. Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
By: Miles J. Unger
3.84
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
One of The Christian Science Monitor ’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 When Picasso became the sto… read more
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- france
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