Collen, Tina: STORM OF THE I. An Artobiography
Author: Collen, Tina
Country: Colorado
Language: English
Year Published: 2009
No. of pages: 322
Illustrations: 275 Color Illustrations. 57 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 1”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 982524102
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6514
Price: $29.95
This book is a fabulous hybrid, a memoir that s alive with foldouts, paintings, drawings and a surprising lift-up flap. Beneath the playfulness, however, lies the story of an artist trying to understand her father’s lifelong anger towards her. At the pinnacle of her career, an exhibition of her work in Paris, Tina Collen finds herself inexplicably weeping. It takes courage to probe a father’s lifelong rejection, but Collen has wonderful tools: her humor, memories and the trail of art she created. I discovered Collen through her Fleurotica collages (shown and discussed in the book). At first glance, I thought I was looking at lush paintings of wildflowers, but on closer examination, I was in the world of the Kama Sutra. Based on the idea that flowers are simply sex organs, Collen created her wildflowers from risque magazine scraps. She took something forbidden and transformed it into something witty, beautiful and acceptable. In Storm of the I, she takes a heartbreaking story and transforms it into something witty, beautiful and unforgettable.
COPENHAGEN PAPERS, THE. An Intrigue
Author: Frayn, Michael and David Burke
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 129
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 6 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 1312421249
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5459
Price: $9.50
This Tony Award-winning book concerns a 1941 meeting in the Nazi-occupied Danish capital Werner Heisenberg, head of the covert Nazi nuclear program, Neils Bohr, his former mentor. (After the war, Heisenberg was interned by the British for six months so the Allies might learn how far the German program had gotten-events also covered in the play.) One day during the British run of Copenhagen, Frayn is presented with a package that contains a few faded pages (in barely legible German) that seem to cast new light on the mystery at the heart of the play. As he puzzles over the pages, actor David Burke (who played Bohr in the London production) follows the action with close interest. After the riddle is cracked and the fog clears, Frayn and Burke together sit down to ponder the trail of the Copenhagen papers. The result is what Kirkus call “an entertaining...game of historical cat-and-mouse” A delicously intricate, whimsically philosophical little intrigue.
DARKER SHADE OF SWEDEN, A. Original Stories by Sweden’s Greatest Crime Writers
Author: Holmberg, John-Henri ed
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2014
No. of pages: 361
Illustrations:
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9780802123220
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 7067
Price: $12.50
In this unique publication, Sweden’s most distinguished and best-loved crime writers (including Stieg Larsson) have contributed stories to an anthology that promises to satisfy the desire to read about the dark side of Sweden. Composed of seventeen stories never before published in English, this collection features crime fiction veterans- from the 1970s powerhouse couple Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo to modern giants like Henning Mankell and Håkan Nesser, as well as writers who will define the next wave of Swedish crime fiction. Compiled and translated by the Edgar Award-nominated coauthor of The Tattoooed Girl.
DEAD OF SUMMER, THE .
Author: Jungstedt, Mari
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 329
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 7”x 5”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 9789187173981
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 7101
Price: $65.00
In Mari Jungstedt’s spine-tingling novel, The Dead of Summer, the most isolated island in the Baltic Sea, Gotska Sandön, north of Gotland, serves as the setting for her perfect crime story. A husband and father of two is mysteriously murdered while on holiday, taking a morning jog. With no evidence of a motive or suspect, assistant commissioner Karin Jacobsson is assigned to her first major case to lead the investigation while her boss, Superintendent Anders Knutas is away on holiday. Meanwhile, TV reporter Johan Berg keeps pace with the police team, while at the same time distracted in trying to win back his former love and the mother of his child, Emma Winarve, who resides on the island. One of ten in her popular Anders Knutas series, Jungstedt weaves a crime story that raises the eerie question…are we ever truly alone? Or, is there always someone watching and waiting?
DEMONIC TO DIVINE . The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin
Author: Yelin, Shulamis, Gila Yelin Hirsch, Nancy Marrelli
Country: Canada
Language: English
Year Published: 2015
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Binding: Softbound
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ISBN: 9781550653830
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6987
Price: $19.95
This book is a weaving of the Montreal writer’s stories, selected diary excerpts and family photographs that reveal a far reaching creative personality who was haunted from the age of ten by the “moods taking over”. This book poignantly illuminates the dramatic duality of a public and private literary and emotional life through her published and unpublished stories of an idyllic Montreal Jewish childhood contrasted with deeply troubled and often shocking diary entries that document the author’s lifelong battle with mental illness. Yelin’s insightful yet light and humorous stories have been cherished by generations of children and adults for their universal appeal. The journal entries that she maintained for most of her 90 years document the abuse, paranoia, self-loathing, doubt and devastating depression of Yelin’s true emotional state. These concurrent lenses reveal the profound struggles and suffering of a facinating and hightly gifted woman who transcended her ongoing deep seated emoitional agony to create a significant literary legacy.