Stone Mirrors

Stone Mirrors
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 192
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781481459075
ISBN-13 : 1481459074
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Stone Mirrors by : Jeannine Atkins

From critically acclaimed author Jeannine Atkins comes a “memorable, poetic tale” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a half–Native American, half–African American sculptor working in the years following the Civil War. A sculptor of historical figures starts with givens but creates her own vision. Edmonia Lewis was just such a sculptor, but she never spoke or wrote much about her past, and the stories that have come down through time are often vague or contradictory. Some facts are known: Edmonia was the daughter of an Ojibwe woman and an African Haitian man. She had the rare opportunity to study art at Oberlin, one of the first schools to admit women and people of color, but lost her place after being accused of poisoning and theft, despite being acquitted of both. She moved to Boston and eventually Italy, where she became a successful sculptor. But the historical record is very thin. The open questions about Edmonia’s life seem ideally suited to verse, a form that is compatible with mysteries. Inspired by both the facts and the gaps in history, author Jeannine Atkins imagines her way into a vision of what might have been.

Stone Mirrors

Stone Mirrors
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781481459051
ISBN-13 : 1481459058
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Stone Mirrors by : Jeannine Atkins

"A biographical novel in verse of a half Native American, half African American female sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, working in the years right after the Civil War"--

A Hall of Mirrors

A Hall of Mirrors
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 422
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0395860288
ISBN-13 : 9780395860281
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis A Hall of Mirrors by : Robert Stone

Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical Christians, corrupt politicians, and demented Hollywood stars, A Hall of Mirrors vividly depicts the dark side of America that erupted in the sixties. To quote Wallace Stegner, "Stone writes like a bird, like an angel, like a circus barker, like a con man, like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars."

Mirrors of Stone

Mirrors of Stone
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Publisher : Between The Lines
Total Pages : 159
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781896357492
ISBN-13 : 1896357490
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Mirrors of Stone by : Charlie Angus

Mirrors of Stone delves into the many ethnic cultures that thrived in the mining areas of Northern Ontario from the 1920s to the 1960s. The stormy history of hardrock mining camps has never fit into the comfortable cliches by which Canada tells its story. Angus unearths the dark sides of this history-the wild tales of bootleggers, mobsters, and prostitution rings' and in so doing opens up new ways of seeing Ontario's history and culture. This is Angus' third work on the economic and cultural history of Northern Ontario, and the second collaboration between Angus and Louie Palu. We Lived a Life and Then Some (BTL, 1996) tells the marvelous story of Cobalt, Ontario, and Industrial Cathedrals of the North (BTL, 1999) portrays in images and words the ghostly mining structures now largely abandoned in the north.

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:610305929
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood by : Merlin Stone

The Water Mirror

The Water Mirror
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 476
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781439108796
ISBN-13 : 143910879X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Water Mirror by : Kai Meyer

In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin—a boy who was once a master thief—works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city and to the guards who patrol the streets on living stone lions. Merle herself possesses something magical: a mirror whose surface is water. She can reach her whole arm into it and never get wet. But Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody knows who or what she is—only that her power flows through the canals and keeps the Egyptians at bay. When Merle and Serafin overhear a plot to capture the Flowing Queen, they are catapulted into desperate danger. They must do everything they can to rescue the Queen and save the city—even if it means getting help from the Ancient Traitor himself.

Darkening Mirrors

Darkening Mirrors
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780822349235
ISBN-13 : 082234923X
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Darkening Mirrors by : Stephanie Leigh Batiste

In an important contribution to African American film and performance history, Stephanie Batiste looks back at African American stage and screen productions of the 1930s.

The Mirror Thief

The Mirror Thief
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Publisher : Melville House
Total Pages : 594
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781612195155
ISBN-13 : 1612195156
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mirror Thief by : Martin Seay

A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Publishers Weekly BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written … the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it." Set in three different eras, and in three different locations—all, coincidentally, named Venice—this “startling, beautiful gem of a book” (NPR) calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in sixteenth-century Venice, where, on the island of Murano, the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination—was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing?—the Venetian mirrors were state-of-the-art technology, subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. Thus, for the skilled craftsmen that made them, any attempt to leave the island—to steal the technology—was a crime punishable by death. One man, however—a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose—has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . . Meanwhile, in two other Venices—Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today—two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . . All three stories weave together into a spell-binding tour de force that is impossible to put down—an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.

Stonepicker

Stonepicker
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Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
Total Pages : 88
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056427670
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Stonepicker by : Frieda Hughes

Frieda Hughes's fables cast light on two worlds, giving a mythic dimension to contemporary life - depicting with an artist's keen eye the particular nature of beast, fish and fowl. Stonepicker is Frieda Hughes's second collection, now out of print in this edition but all the poems are included in Out of the Ashes (Bloodaxe Books, 2018).