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Adriana Vasco was a 35-year old mother of two when she had an affair with a 57-year old doctor named Kenneth Stahl. Both Adriana and Kenneth would indulge in a lengthy affair and would later come up with a plan to kill his wife, Carolyn. The doctor wanted out of his marriage but feared the financial consequences of divorce. So when a security guard discovered a car parked along the shoulder of the Ortega Highway on November 20, 1999, with the engine...
2182) Odilon Redon
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Odilon Redon, né le 20 avril 1840 à Bordeaux, et mort le 6 juillet 1916 à Paris est un peintre et graveur symboliste de la fin du XIXe siècle. Son art explore les aspects de la pensée, l'aspect sombre et ésotérique de l'âme humaine, empreinte des mécanismes du rêve. Odilon Redon fut un passionné de musique et en particulier de Mozart, Beethoven et Schumann.
2183) The Mckay Kidnapping
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he McKay kidnapping is one of Britain's most notorious cases of kidnap and, perhaps, murder. The story itself is interesting enough- it involves mistaken identity, lords and ladies, newspaper magnates and mystery. But the story of how two brothers were punished for the crime, despite a body not having been found (and not ever found to this day), is what sets this case apart.
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Des conversations avec Stanislavski inspirent à Georgette Leblanc les représentations de La Tragédie de Macbeth et de Pelléas et Mélisande à l'abbaye de Saint-Wandrille, sa résidence d'été. Femme d'énergie, elle sert le théâtre de Maeterlinck avec un dévouement absolu à Paris et dans les grandes capitales européennes.
Leur dialogue amoureux et intellectuel continue, exigeant et rude, jusqu'à la rupture en 1918. Le Prix Nobel lui avait...
2185) The Blonde Bandit
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Irene Schroeder was an armed robber who was the first woman to be electrocuted in the state of Pennsylvania for her role in a grocery store robbery that led to the shooting of a policeman. She and her boyfriend went on the run, Bonnie and Clyde style, until they were finally arrested after a long shootout. But what led Irene, once a sweet and doting waitress, to take on a life of crime? This is her story.
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Suppose you were accused of a crime you did not commit. Now suppose you were denied all available defense and therefore, convicted of this crime and then shipped off to prison where you will spend the next 54 months of your life. Finally, suppose the accusation was proven false, but one judge blocks all of your redemption efforts. Now ask yourself this question, "How far would you go to prove you're innocent."
This is the story of a police officer...
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Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael!
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo's fiercest rival-the young, beautiful, brilliant painter of perfection, Raphael. Orphaned at age eleven,...
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What is counterculture?
— It's an alternative lifestyle...
— The ideas that spread a revolution...
— A movement that changes the world...
This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British Art, film, theatre, dance, literature and music have attracted international recognition, from the Angry Young Men to the Sex Pistols to Grayson Perry. Now gaming, the internet and social media enable...
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« Il faut que tu écrives comme si personne n'allait te lire; écrire pour toi, être authentique, avec tes tripes, sans nuance, ça doit te ressembler sinon ton œuvre aura le goût du commun et l'attrait du banal. Ce sont approximativement les paroles d'un éditeur à son écrivain. Alors que je suis avachie dans mon divan un dimanche pluvieux d'octobre devant un film, cette phrase résonne en moi comme un pistolet de starter qui donne le départ...
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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), conocido principalmente por su estilo único y grandilocuente, puede presumir de un repertorio extraordinario donde concurren cine, escultura, fotografía y, por supuesto, pintura. Mientras que su nombre es a menudo asociado, con razón, al surrealismo, Dalí demostró su maestría en géneros tan dispares como el clasicismo, el modernismo y el cubismo. No por menos, supone una figura crucial en la historia del arte que...
2191) A Victim Of Desperation
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After her parents' divorce, Jessica, age eleven, is responsible for overseeing the household and watching her younger siblings while her ever-absent mother manages her three businesses.
At sixteen, she is introduced to Jim, nearly a decade older than she. Their friendship blossoms into a summer romance, which results in her pregnancy. Confident she can raise the baby with Jim's support, she sets a goal to graduate from high school at age seventeen...
2192) Michèle Morgan et moi
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La voyant au cinéma, Yves Balmès tombe amoureux de Michèle Morgan dès l'âge de huit ans. Fasciné par sa beauté et son jeu d'actrice, il lui écrit son admiration par l'intermédiaire du journal Cinémonde. Cependant, leur correspondance dure presque trente ans avant leur belle rencontre. Michèle Morgan et moi expose de façon poignante cette illustre artiste, loin de l'image froide et distante que l'on pourrait se faire d'elle.
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Nikki White was a 34-year-old African-American mother of 16-year-old identical twins named Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah. But on the afternoon of January 13, 2010, she was found murdered in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home. Her twin daughters would be arrested for her murder in a crime that shocked their small Georgia town. But what really prompted the girls to murder their own mother?
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An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith
Famously unabashed, W. Eugene Smith was photography's most celebrated humanist. As a photo essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and '50s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. His photographs of war and disaster, villages and metropolises, doctors and midwives, revolutionized the role of images in journalism, transforming photography for decades...
2195) Michael De Feo: Flowers
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As an art student in 1993, Michael De Feo drew a simple bloom that became a familiar and welcome presence in New York after he spent countless nights pasting hundreds of versions of it all over the city's building walls. Twenty-five years later, these flowers have been sighted in more than 60 international cities. His street works took a new direction in 2015 when a guerrilla art collective provided him access to the cases that protect bus-shelter...
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Detrás de los retratos de Frida Kahlo se ocultan tanto la historia de su vida como la de su obra. Es precisamente esta combinación lo que cautiva al espectador. La obra de Frida es un testimonio de su vida. Pocas veces se puede aprender tanto acerca de un artista con solo contemplar lo que inscribe dentro del marco de sus cuadros. Frida Kahlo es sin lugar a dudas la ofrenda de México a la historia del arte. Tenía apenas dieciocho años cuando...
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Sadie Hartley was a successful businessman living with a retired firefighter, Ian Johnston. Their life seemed idyllic until Ian met Sarah Williams, a younger woman hellbent on winning Ian at all costs... even murder. Plotting the murder of her rival with her best friend, Sarah would commit one of the most horrific murders in the upscale village of Helmshore.
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The mystery of D. B. Cooper ranks up there with mysteries such as the Loch Ness Monster or the sleeping fits of Kalachi village, and refers to an incident on the twenty fourth of November of 1971, where a man operating under the alias Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 plane midflight, halfway between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. His intent was to demand two hundred thousand dollars in ransom for the safe return of the passengers. Such...
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Lisa Montgomery would meet Bobbie Joe Stinnett in an on-line chatroom called "Ratter Chatter" under the pretext that she wanted to purchase a rat terrier puppy from her. But what she really wanted from the pregnant Bobbie Joe was her baby. Lisa would arrive at the Stinnett home and strangle the young woman into unconscious before cutting out the baby from her stomach with a kitchen knife.
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Delicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, fascinating juxtapositions develop. The layers of a Neapolitan cake echo the shadows cast across a street in the late afternoon. The pastel hues of iced sponge cakes match California's candy-colored houses. Curators, critics, and artists guide the reader through the book via insightful bite-size essays. This gorgeous...
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