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Langston Hughes by W. Jason Miller
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
As the first black author in America to make his living exclusively by writing, Langston Hughes inspired a generation of writers and activists. One of the pioneers of jazz poetry, Hughes led the Harlem Renaissance, while Martin Luther King, Jr., invoked Hughes's signature metaphor of dreaming in his spe ...Show more
Lasher (Mayfair Witches #2) by Anne Rice
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches Ser.
The beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. This work tells a hypnotic story of spiritual aspirations and passion.
Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin
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Category: No Category | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents and tortuous ...Show more
Leonard Bernstein by Paul R. Laird
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades, he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras and composed scores for landmark musicals such as West Side Story. With an iron self-belief, he negotiated risky and cha ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci - Self Art and Nature by François Quiviger
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Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan countryside befo ...Show more
Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Still Lives Ser.
A companion to Still Lives-a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection-this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world and reveals the fatal mistakes that can befall those who threaten its status quo.Brenae Brasil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigi ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Anne Frank by Isabel Thomas
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Anne Frank was an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. Forced to go into hiding to escape the Nazis persecution of Jews in World War II, Anne kept a diary that would become one of the most famous books in the world. Meet one of history s most inspiring figures in this beautifully-illustrated gui ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Frida Kahlo by Isabel Thomas
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Frida Kahlo was a colourful Mexican artist who endured great pain and hardship, but used her bright, vivid brushstrokes to express her emotions and reveal her true personality. She created over 50 self-portraits, and is considered to be one of the most influential and inspirational artists of the twenti ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Leonardo Da Vinci by Isabel Thomas
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Most famous as the painter who created the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci is also one of history s greatest geniuses he was a mathematician, architect, astronomer, scientist and musician...and he even invented the helicopter!From artists to aviators and scientists to revolutionaries, Little Guides to Grea ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Nelson Mandela by Isabel Thomas
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of triumph in the face of adversity. 2018 marks a hundred years since his birth.From artists to aviators and scientists to revolutionaries, Lit ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
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Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
Machiavelli - From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. "Machiavellian" can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine g ...Show more