The Beautiful Miscellaneous

The Beautiful Miscellaneous
Title The Beautiful Miscellaneous PDF eBook
Author Dominic Smith
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 353
Release 2008-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0743271254

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At 17, Nathan Nelson has no idea what he wants to be. His father, however, made up his mind: Nathan will be a genius.

The Beautiful Miscellaneous

The Beautiful Miscellaneous
Title The Beautiful Miscellaneous PDF eBook
Author Dominic Smith
Publisher
Pages 352
Release 2017-07-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781760296360

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By the author of the enduring bestseller and Indie Prize winning The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Title The Last Painting of Sara de Vos PDF eBook
Author Dominic Smith
Publisher Sarah Crichton Books
Pages 305
Release 2016-04-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374714045

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“Written in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, “The Last Painting” is gorgeous storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile awareness of the emotional contours of the human heart. Vividly detailed, acutely sensitive to stratifications of gender and class, it’s fiction that keeps you up at night — first because you’re barreling through the book, then because you’ve slowed your pace to a crawl, savoring the suspense.” —Boston Globe A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING LINKS THREE LIVES, ON THREE CONTINENTS, OVER THREE CENTURIES IN THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, AN EXHILARATING NEW NOVEL FROM DOMINIC SMITH. Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it. New York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, At the Edge of a Wood, hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. The lawyer’s marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict. Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting an exhibition in her field of specialization: female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When it becomes apparent that both the original At the Edge of a Wood and her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably.

Everything Is Miscellaneous

Everything Is Miscellaneous
Title Everything Is Miscellaneous PDF eBook
Author David Weinberger
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 292
Release 2008-04-29
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780805088113

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Attempts to explain how new ways of classifying digital data will impact society.

What I Like About You

What I Like About You
Title What I Like About You PDF eBook
Author Marisa Kanter
Publisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages 416
Release 2020-04-07
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 1534475931

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Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can…but in the real world, its more complicated. In this debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson, Marisa Kanter hilariously and poignantly explores what happens when internet friends turn into IRL crushes. Is it still a love triangle if there are only two people in it? There are a million things that Halle Levitt likes about her online best friend, Nash. He’s an incredibly talented graphic novelist. He loves books almost as much as she does. And she never has to deal with the awkwardness of seeing him in real life. They can talk about anything… Except who she really is. Because online, Halle isn’t Halle—she’s Kels, the enigmatically cool creator of One True Pastry, a YA book blog that pairs epic custom cupcakes with covers and reviews. Kels has everything Halle doesn’t: friends, a growing platform, tons of confidence, and Nash. That is, until Halle arrives to spend senior year in Gramps’s small town and finds herself face-to-face with real, human, not-behind-a-screen Nash. Nash, who is somehow everywhere she goes—in her classes, at the bakery, even at synagogue. Nash who has no idea she’s actually Kels. If Halle tells him who she is, it will ruin the non-awkward magic of their digital friendship. Not telling him though, means it can never be anything more. Because while she starts to fall for Nash as Halle…he’s in love with Kels.

The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Frederick Von Schlegel ...

The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Frederick Von Schlegel ...
Title The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Frederick Von Schlegel ... PDF eBook
Author Friedrich von Schlegel
Publisher
Pages 576
Release 1849
Genre Aesthetics
ISBN

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The Electric Hotel

The Electric Hotel
Title The Electric Hotel PDF eBook
Author Dominic Smith
Publisher Sarah Crichton Books
Pages 352
Release 2019-06-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374719691

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A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love. For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who started out as a concession agent for the Lumière brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel—the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose—the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments in desperate need of restoration, as well as Claude’s memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him. The Electric Hotel is a portrait of a man entranced by the magic of moviemaking, a luminous romance, and a whirlwind trip through early cinema. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.