Cara Hoffman
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The Pipers are a family built on optimism. Claire and Gene moved with their precocious daughter Alice to Haeden, New York, for a fresh start. Wendy White has strong roots in Haeden. Her story has a beginning and an end, but is missing the most important piece: the middle. Stacey Flynn is a reporter. Gritty, relentless and ultimately reckless, it is Flynn who will chronicle Wendy White's existence and forge a path toward the end.
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There's no other place Tubs Marshfield would rather be than singing a song in his perfect little swamp along the Louisiana bayou. His music can make anyone feel happy. But something terrible is happening within the swamp that even Tubs' songs can't fix--and it's making his neighbors feel sick! No one knows what to do, least of all Tubs. A mysterious prophecy may hold the key...or send Tubs away from his friends forever.--
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The drowsy Dormouse named Bernard Pepperlin of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland has been trapped in time subjected to an endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and others. One day a girl in a blue dress crashes the Hatter's tea party, the Dormouse feels more awake than he has in a long time. When the Hatter shoves him into a porcelain teapot painted with the New York City's skyline, he's thrilled to be transported to a magnificent new world where clocks...
4) Running
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"Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners"--hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they...
5) RUIN
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A little girl who disguises herself as an old man, an addict who collects dollhouse furniture, a crime reporter confronted by a talking dog, a painter trying to prove the non-existence of god, and lovers in a penal colony who communicate through technical drawings-these are just a few of the characters who live among the ruins. RUIN is both bracingly timely and eerily timeless in its examination of an American state in free-fall, unsparing in its...
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Fundación MAPFRE
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[2019]
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English
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"Berenice Abbott was one of the first people to photograph New York City. Seen through her camera lens the city became a living entity, a remarkable character whom visitors can now pursue as they move through its crowded streets, looking upwards to discover the modern beauty of its skyscrapers. This publication presents Berenice Abbott's work in several themes: her portraits, photographs of the city and scientific photographs"--