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305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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""You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. It turned the tables on Hollywood, instantly becoming a classic, and continues to...
4) Dear Mr. You
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"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former...
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73 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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English
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"Collecting two intimate and personal print series created late in her career, 'Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints" opens a window into the mind of this celebrated artist. The 'Autobiographical Series (1994) captures her deepest thoughts and memories, while her set of "11 Drypoints" (1999) offers a more abstract perspective, using metaphorical motifs to conjure the dreams and images that haunted her to the very end of her life. Robert Malbert...
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Louise Rick volume 10
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289 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Sara Blaedel's runaway #1 Danish bestselling crime novel featuring police investigator Louise Rick, a perfect new entry point to the series that first launched in the US with the bestselling and award-winning novel The Forgotten Girls"--
A woman is haunted by a heartwrenching decision she made as a teenager in this darkly atmospheric, deeply emotional thriller from #1 internationally bestselling global superstar Sara Blaedel. Detective Louise Rick...
10) Louise Nevelson
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397 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
11) The lost woman
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296 pages ; 24 cm.
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A housewife is the target of a shocking, methodical killing. Shot with a hunting rifle through her kitchen window, the woman is dead before she hits the ground. Though murdered in England, it turns out that the woman, Sofie Parker, is actually a Danish citizen who's been on the Missing Persons list for almost two decades-so Louise Rick is called on to the case. Then, in an unexpected twist, the police discover that Sofie had been reported missing...
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Series of Western Americana volume no. 13
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38 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
13) Louise's dilemma
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Young widow Louise Pearlie seizes a chance to escape the typewriters and files of the Office of Strategic Services, the United States' World War II spy agency, when she's asked to investigate a puzzling postcard referred to OSS by the US Censor. She and FBI agent Gray Williams head off to St. Leonard, Maryland, to talk to the postcard's recipient, one Leroy Martin. But what seemed like a straightforward mission to Louise soon becomes complicated....
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237 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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English
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The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, this singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist,...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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English
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"In the pages of this book, created in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meet French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Join her on her journey and learn what led her to create her fabric works, installations, paintings, and sculptures. Discover the people and places that influenced her and the objects that sparked her ideas. Then see what you can see and create your own works of art!"--
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506 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic steel structures. Her life story is no less interesting. She was born in czarist Russia, but her family emigrated to the States and she grew up in Maine. Nevelson endured a repressive marriage to a New York millionaire,...
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A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.
Before she became an artist, Louise Bourgeois was an apprentice in her family's tapestry shop, where her mother was a weaver of tapestries. Discover how Louise learned about form and color, and how memories of her...
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