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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
Laura Cumming - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap - the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter... |
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Artists at Home
Susie Hodge - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover
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Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity.. From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Artists at Home showcases the quiet retreats, creative hubs, lifelong homes, and holiday... |
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Joy Buolamwini - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.. "Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figure in bringing irresponsible, profit-hungry tech giants to their... |
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Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley... |
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND. Take a well-fed nine-year-old... |
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Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
Emily Strasser - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them was author... |
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They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
Ahed Tamimi - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.. "I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, the power, the photographic storytelling... |
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