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Victorian Buffalo
Take an insightful armchair tour of Buffalo as it looked in the 19th century. Victorian Buffalo showcases our region's glorious past by presenting a collection of steel engravings, woodcuts, lithography and other forms of nonphotographic art. Author Cynthia Van Ness has selected a medley of scenes that will give readers glimpses of everyday life as well as views of historic structures created by luminaries like Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and E.B. Green. The book also highlights some obscure but fascinating local sites like the German American Brewing Company, White's Riding Academy, the Home for the Friendless and many other intriguing spots.
A Face Like Glass
An amnesiac girl explores an enchanting underground world filled with sinister secrets in this YA fantasy from the award-winning author of The Lie Tree. In the underground city of Caverna, the world’s most skilled craftspeople toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare—wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as he slits your throat. On the surface, the people of Caverna seem ordinary, except for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to express (or fake) joy, despair, or fear—at a steep price. Into t...
The Best Planned City in the World
Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of improvements for Buffalo, New York, augmenting the city's original plan with urban design features inspired by Second Empire Paris, including the first system of "parkways" to grace an American city. In his award-winning book, Francis R. Kowsky delves into original plans, drawings, photographs, reports, and letters to bring new perspective to the visionary design and planning principles that Olmsted and Vaux pioneered.
Buffalo Memories
"A collection of historic Buffalo photos from 1890 through 1939" -- from page [1] book dust jacket.
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