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Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne

Livingston Jane, Liguori Andrea, Elderfield John, Nash Steven, Fine Ruth E., Nordland Gerald, Grant Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.

A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...

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Fiction

The German List

30 April 1945 The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany's Integration with the West Began

Kluge Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780857423993, ISBN: HB: 9780857422989, Seagull Books, October 2016
160 pp., 19.5x14 cm, 27 halftones

April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Pevsner's Architectural Glossary

Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300223682, Yale University Press, September 2016
144 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 32 colour illus., 144 black&white illus.

With even more entries and more vocabulary words, this second edition of "Pevsner's Architectural Glossary" covers the complete range of technical terms used in the storied guides. Pevsner's famous designations E. E. and Perp. are among the terms cle...

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Children's Books

Mermaid and the Parakeet A Children's Book Inspired by Henri Matisse

Massenot Veronique

ISBN: HB: 9783791372655, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.

Henri Matisse once said, "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter". It's no wonder his works are loved by children everywhere. In this charming book, Vanessa Hie and Veronique Mas...

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Children's Books

Coloring Book Renoir

Roeder Annette

ISBN: PB: 9783791372808, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.

This delightful coloring book introduces children to one of the world's most celebrated artists, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The French artist was a leading figure in the development of the Impressionist style. Most often focusing on people, his paintings...

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Performing Arts

Philosophy

50 Drawings to Murder Magic

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9780857423504, Seagull Books, September 2016
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 50 halftones

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, "50 Drawings to Murder Magi...

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Fiction

The French List

Cage in Search of a Bird

Noiville Florence

ISBN: HB: 9780857423757, Seagull Books, September 2016
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better – a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends – until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently...

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The Swiss List

Spirits of the Earth

Colomb Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780857423726, Seagull Books, September 2016
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Prou...

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Fiction

The Arab List

Describing the Past

Zaqtan Ghassan

ISBN: HB: 9780857423498, Seagull Books, September 2016
80 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp – a center of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Isr...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Pass Guard at Ypres

Gurner Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781612004112, Casemate, August 2016
242 pp., 19x13.2 cm

A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, in excited and nervous anticipation of what is to come; they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in, and slaughter surrounds them. With their young, upri...

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