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  The Teen Vogue Handbook

  by Teen Vogue

  TEEN VOGUE grants budding stylistas an all-access pass into the high-profile and glamorous world of fashion in THE TEEN VOGUE HANDBOOK: An Insider's Guide to Careers in Fashion. With superb photos, interviews with industry icons such as Marc Jacobs, Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier, and six sections that include information from editors and assistants, the handbook serves as a link between the... (more)
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  Wrapped in Rain

  A Novel of Coming Home

  by Charles Martin

  "Tucker, I want to tell you a secret," Miss Ella curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists. You got to fight it with your heart." An internationallly famous photographer, he has traveled the world and seen both the serious and the strange. But when his brother escapes from a mental hospital and an old girlfriend appears with her son and a... (more)
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  The Wild Girl

  by Jim Fergus

  Now in paperback, a stirring historical novel from the author of One Thousand White Women When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expedition’s goal is complicated when they encounter a wild Apache... (more)
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  Women Photographers at National Geographic

  by Cathy Newman

  Photojournalism is a demanding art, even more so for female photographers than for their male colleagues: Along with the perils, and discomforts shared by every professional traveler, women all too often face other obstacles unique to their gender. But as this gloriously colorful celebration proves, the women of National Geographic have excelled behind the camera for almost a century, come hell or high water,... (more)
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  The Mathematics of Love

  by Emma Darwin

  The Mathematics of Love is a poignant chronicle of two people, separated by centuries, whose lives—amazingly, impossibly—become interwoven in a brilliant tapestry of tragedy, memory, and time. Following alternate but intimately connected stories—of a curious, promiscuous teenager in her season of exile and awakening in the English countryside in 1976, and a nineteenth-century soldier damaged on the fields of... (more)
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  The Lotus Eaters

  by Tatjana Soli

  A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.  On a stifling day in 1975, the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the fall of the city begins, two lovers make their way through the streets to escape to a new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist,... (more)
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  The Teen Vogue Handbook

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  Black & White

  by Dani Shapiro

  From the author of Family History (“Poised, absorbing . . . a bona fide page turner”— The New York Times Book Review ) and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion, a spellbinding novel about art, fame, ambition, and family that explores a provocative question: Is it possible for a mother to be true to herself and true to her children at the same time? Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself... (more)
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  Who Shot Rock & Roll

  A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present

  by Gail Buckland

  More than two hundred spectacular photographs, sensual, luminous, frenzied, true, from 1955 to the present, that catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll; the first book to explore the photographs and the photographers who captured rock’s message of freedom and personal reinvention—and to examine the effect of their pictures on the musicians, the fans, and the culture... (more)
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  W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes

  by Sam Stephenson, W. Eugene Smith

  W. Eugene Smith is the master of the photographic essay; he created essays which include some of the most dramatic and affecting single images of the twentieth century. Fiercely energetic, he made countless photographs memorable for their formal brilliance and for their compassion. This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography presents more than seventy of Smith's greatest photographs, selected from work... (more)
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  You've Been Warned

  by James Patterson

  For Karen Burns, a talented young photographer, it was only natural to go to New York to chase her dreams. And it was only normal--just to pay the rent while she waited for her big chance--to work as a nanny for a young power couple, an attorney and his socialite wife, watching their two children. But for all the promise, the thrills, and the glitter, there are temptations and there are deadly... (more)
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  Where the Heart Is

  by Billie Letts

  Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this small Southwest town--a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobless girl living... (more)
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  The Bridges of Madison County

  by Robert James Waller

  Robert Kincaid, a photographer and free spirit, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, reveal what it is like to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again. Reprint."
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  Moonlight Becomes You

  by Mary Higgins Clark

  At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway -- one of the fashion world's most successful photographers -- is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar. Heartbroken,... (more)
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  Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

  by John Szarkowski

  Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple delectation," says... (more)
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  The Double Bind

  by Chris Bohjalian

  Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to one of contemporary literature’s most beloved foster children. And in Before You Know Kindness , he plumbed animal rights, gun control, and what... (more)
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  Physiognomy: The Mark Seliger Photographs

  by Mark Seliger

  The study of how facial features reveal inner character, is devoted exclusively to Seligers images. It is a dynamic fusion of his infamous cover shots and unpublished work, past. Within these pages is a wild ride through the famous faces of our decade, from a frisky Barrymore to a world-weary Jagger, portraits that run the gamut from sexy to humorous, poignant to compelling.
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  Double Image

  by David Morrell

  After a harrowing experience in Bosnia, war photographer Mitch Coltrane vows to take pictures that celebrate hope instead of despair. But the horrors of his previous assignment continue to haunt him. Taking refuge in the past, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman in an old photograph from 1930s Hollywood. Seeking her identity, he discovers a young woman with a remarkable resemblance to the photo. The past... (more)
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  Alfred Stieglitz (Masters of Photography Series)

  by Alfred Stieglitz

  Alfred Stieglitz was one of the most important cultural forces in twentieth-century America. As founder of the Photo Secession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work he eschewed the prevailing "artiness" of pictorialist photography, preferring clarity of vision and "crystallized awareness." In galleries such as "291" and An American Place he showed and championed the work of modern artists from the... (more)
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  The History of Photography

  by Beaumont Newhall

  Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more than 300 works by such master... (more)