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2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race Experts Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in The Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Meštrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. She was nonetheless commissioned by the Field Museum to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum’s new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on rac...
THE ECO-WARRIOR SERIES 4 Book Box Set. Sold individually for $3.99, NOW all for stories in one book for $5.99 Romance, action, mystery, magic and murder - four stand-alone contemporary novels that encompass multiple genres, each with a subplot that addresses important environmental issues. SAVING SPIRIT BEAR - What Price Success? Corporate Climber challenges Eco-Warrior to decide the fate of the rare and endangered Spirit Bear LOVING THE TERRORIST - Risking It All How far would you go to save a wild place you love? MAD MAGGIE - And the Wisdom of the Ancients Two passionate opponents are about to clash over the future of a grove of Ancient Old Growth Trees on a secluded island. Magic, mystery and madness against logic, cause and effect. Can love find a middle ground? FOREST - Love, Loss, Legend Lost gold, lost love and lost hope compels Matt to return home to a dying town on the edge of the Canadian wilderness. The forest is waiting.
My name is Matt Diamond, not that that really matters. I spent a little over ten years in the LA Police Department before I woke up one morning and asked myself, What the hell am I doing? This is a dirty business and when I worked in drugs and alcohol before moving over to homicide, it became clear that no one really cared a shit about what I was doing. Now, if they didnt care, why should I give a damn either? The pay was minimum wage, there was little time to myself, and sleep came less and less every day. The day I turned in my badge was much more exciting than when I put it on that first day. When we threw our hats in the air at the Academy, I felt like I could make a difference. Wrong ag...
Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.
Holden Harris is an autistic 18-year-old who is bullied at school. Laura Reynolds, the head cheerleader who befriends Holden, has problems of her own at home. In her trademark way, Kingsbury tackles real-life issues of high school bullying, autism, adultery, and ultimately acceptance.
In this fast-paced world where emotions seem fallacious, does true love actually hold meaning? Are soulmates a concept that exists? Do people keep the promises they once made? This is not a love story like the rest, but rather a tale of four people connected through fate. Two love stories passing the tests of time, betrayal, separation, distance, inconvenience and destiny coming in the way of their love. Neel and Siya -two souls that meet and fall in love, but can their love transcend the boundaries that circumambulate it? Kaira and Aryan’s an unexplainable romance, but a romance nonetheless. Their lives are intertwined in ways only God could have planned; their destinies are linked intricately. They save one another but would they be able to save themselves? Can these epic love stories truly survive the disasters thrown at them both through life and nature? Only time can tell and reveal the secrets that reside within.
Final Bid Thanksgiving with her fault-finding mother has Odelia Grey stewing in her own juices. But her husband's cousin Ina—who shows up to dinner alone with ugly bruises—clearly has it worse. Things quickly go downhill after Odelia's mother decides to extend her visit a few extra days to attend a storage auction with Ina, who owns a consignment shop. The day of the auction, the thrill of bargain hunting gives way to tragedy when Ina's husband is found inside a storage locker—dead. Praise: "Witty and well-plotted."—Publishers Weekly "Ina's goods may be secondhand, but Jaffarian's are first-class."—Kirkus Reviews "Odelia and her colorful family and colleagues are as quirky and appealing as those found in Sharon Fiffer's Jane Wheel series."—Booklist "[A] clever, winning tale with lots of laughs along the way."—Suspense Magazine
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