Author : Elise Broach
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805082700
In this follow-up to "Shakespeare's Secret," Broach delivers a fast-paced mystery in which a young boy and a beetle attempt to pull off a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Illustrations.
Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496418956
A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller “This character-driven romance will enthrall [Rivers’s] many fans.” —Library Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want—money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist—an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the reputation, it’s as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts slowly begin to fit together . . . until something so unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationship—and both their lives—forever. “Rivers deftly threads Roman’s and Grace’s lives together as they tiptoe around their emotional scars, eventually shifting into a dance of tentative steps toward a love neither can resist. Fans of Christian romance will delight in this tale of salvation through love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Richly detailed characters with traumatic pasts are woven together with biblical truths and redemptive themes. . . . This is an amazing, beautifully written tale to be savored and pondered and shared with others.” —Romantic Times “Readers will marvel at Rivers’s storytelling arc encompassing the reconciliation of gritty past misdeeds and the work in progress of a life of forgiveness.” —Booklist “Fans of Francine Rivers will eagerly devour The Masterpiece and find exactly what they are looking for: a beautifully written story of faith, romance, and the power that true freedom can bring.” —Bookreporter
Author : Fiona Davis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524742961
In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. For most New Yorkers, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future. It is 1928, and Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. Though not even the prestige of the school can override the public's disdain for a "woman artist," fiery Clara is single-minded in her quest to achieve every creative success—even while juggling the affections of two very different men. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they'll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression...and that even poverty and hunger will do little to prepare Clara for the greater tragedy yet to come. By 1974, the terminal has declined almost as sharply as Virginia Clay's life. Dilapidated and dangerous, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort. Recently divorced, she has just accepted a job in the information booth in order to support herself and her college-age daughter, Ruby. But when Virginia stumbles upon an abandoned art school within the terminal and discovers a striking watercolor, her eyes are opened to the elegance beneath the decay. She embarks on a quest to find the artist of the unsigned masterpiece—an impassioned chase that draws Virginia not only into the battle to save Grand Central but deep into the mystery of Clara Darden, the famed 1920s illustrator who disappeared from history in 1931.
Author : Lee Chambers
Publisher : Lee Chambers
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1005455414
Have you ever had a day that changed your life? We tend to underestimate just how much we can achieve in a day, and more importantly, how days very quickly add up to months and years. My life changed when I lost the ability to walk on a day back in 2014. And ever since then, I've been obsessed with how our daily routines and habits make us into the people we are. Join me as I explore the 10 big ideas and insights that have had the biggest impact on my journey to learn to walk again, start a successful business and lead a happier, healthier life. This book will provide you with a blueprint to create days that are optimal for you, and contains both a range of ideas to reflect on, and exercises to complete. By the end of this book, you will know exactly what you need in your day to move towards the future you desire. About the author Lee Chambers is an award-winning British psychologist, coach and founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing. He has been interviewed by Vogue, The Guardian and Newsweek, and is known for analysing the psychological aspects of the workplaces, wellbeing and colour. His clients include Indeed, RBS, Gazprom and B&Q, and he works with athletes, leaders and entrepreneurs to support them to reach optimal performance through wellbeing and psychology. He is the host of the Self Aware Entrepreneur Show, and was voted in the Top 50 BAME Entrepreneurs Under 50 in 2020. He is trusted by publications such as Medical News Today, the BBC and Healthline, and was awarded the Psychologist of the Year by the UK Enterprise Awards, and in 2011 won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Emerging Entrepreneur category. Having studied across a range of psychological fields at the University of Surrey, the University of Pennsylvania and Lancaster University, he is now on a mission to distil his learnings into a series of actionable guides to leading healthier, happier lives that promote thriving and flourishing. And it is one of these guides you hold in your hand today.
Author : Hans Belting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226042657
The 'invisible masterpiece', then, is an unattainable ideal, an ideal that has both bewitched and bewildered artists." "The Invisible Masterpiece is an unusual reconstruction of the history of the work of art since 1800, in which Hans Belting explores and explains the dreams and fears, the triumphs and failures of modernity's painters and sculptors."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444702606
In today's increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? And what can I do about it? Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the workplace. Here, Timothy Keller argues that God's plan is radically more ambitious: he actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place, to help each other, and so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work, and our work should develop our faith.With deep insight, Timothy Keller draws on essential and relevant biblical wisdom to address our questions about work. There is grace available if we have taken the wrong attitude, idolising money and using our careers to glorify ourselves rather than God. This book provides the foundations for a work-life balance where we can thrive both personally and professionally. Keller shows how through excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity and passion in the workplace we can impact society for good.Developing a better attitude to work releases us to serve others humbly, to worship God everyday, and leaves us deeply fulfilled.
Author : Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101598948
The third volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. Having been deemed mentally ill for his anti-war sentiments and sent for treatment, George Sherston comes under the care of neurologist Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, who allows Sherston to sort through his attitudes toward the fighting (events that have also been semi-fictionalized by Pat Barker for her bestselling and critically acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy). After six months in the hospital, Sherston leaves to rejoin his regiment. He is soon dispatched to Ireland, where he attempts to reclaim some of the idyllic fox-hunting days of his youth, then to Palestine. He finally ends up at the Western Front in France, where he is shot in the head while on a reconnaissance mission and invalided back home. As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress—whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental—literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great War. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Connor Franta
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501145932
YouTube personality Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192839633
This is the most autobiographical of the 20 novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides an insight into his friendship with Cezanne and presents an account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence.
