The dazzling tales are richly embroidered by authors intimate knowledge of the fine art world. She showcases her expertise as a collector by including collectibles in stories as diverse and complex as the coveted items in question as a history detective.
She illustrates that "All is indeed not necessarily gold" in this dark, but wry glimpse into the lives, loves and deceptions of collectors, past and present.
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- Publisher : Seaburn Books (September 1, 2004)
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1592321003
- ISBN-13 : 978-1592321001
African Orgin of Biological Psychiatry
The Ancient Egyptian knew the relationship of the pineal gland to higher states of consciousness more than 4000 years before its rediscovery by modern biological psychiatry. The concept of an African origin of biological psychiatry is based on a review...
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CONVERSATION PIECES: POEMS THAT TALK TO OTHER POEMS
Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's...
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African American Cookbook (SB)
African American Cookbook: Traditional And Other Favorite Recipes by Bailey, Phoebe (2002) Spiral-bound
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ASIN : B011YTRB2A
Publisher : Good Books (January 1, 1709)
Item Weight : 14.8 ounces
$2.99
Bad Boy
Library Binding : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0060295244
ISBN-13 : 978-0060295240
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
A vibrant portrait of the talented and entrepreneurial women who defined an era in Cairo. One of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ’30s, a vibrant music,...
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The Butler
Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin, Javier. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a...
$8.99
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Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
BLACK PIONEERS: AN UNTOLD STORY one of Katz’s four important books on the African American experience as western pioneers. It has a new Preface by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. great, great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the...
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Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives
During the early 19th century African American men and women who broke their chains also gave the abolitionist movement its strongest verbal weapons in the form of detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system. Perceptive, dramatic and often starkly horrifying,...
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