Rainbow Central Volume 1


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Join the women of Rainbow Central in these three contemporary sapphic romances full of heart, romance, and happy endings. The Rainbow Central Volume 1 Collection includes: - Please Be My Love: When everyone is talking about boys, Jo can't stop thinking about girls. It wouldn't be so bad if she could share her new discovery with her best friend, but how can she tell Ellie that she likes... Ellie? - Love For The Holidays: With the approaching holidays and Ivy's ever-nosy family about her love life, a misunderstanding about her new roommate, Frances, gives her the perfect idea to avoid the yearly disappointment from her parents. A fake girlfriend. - When Life Gives You Oranges: There’s one thing Lisa loves more than anything and that’s fruit. As owner of a small juice business, she attends a yearly food festival to share her passion with the world. But this time, she’s not the only fruit fanatic on the block and the competition is about to get fierce. Who knew juice could be so exciting?




Rainbow Stories


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Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with "skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls" who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters.




Fangirl


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#1 New York Times bestselling author! In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life-and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to. Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone. For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind? A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 A New York Times Best Seller!




Rainbow Central Volume 2


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Join the women of Rainbow Central in these three contemporary sapphic romances full of heart, romance, and happy endings. The Rainbow Central Volume 2 Collection includes: - New Lease Of Love: Despite their age difference, Quinn and Olivia work well together trying to breathe a new lease of life into the Rainbow Central bar. But what about a new lease of love? - Love Is For Later: The thin line between friendship and more blurs when Nix and Harper dance around each other in an LGBT club. It's all fun and games until one of them catches feelings, but that's not what they agreed on... - Project Crush: When film maker Erin starts her latest project about people confessing their crushes, the last thing she expects is to end up with one of her own.




Rainbow Painting


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"Rainbow painting is a compilation of talks given between 1991-1994. These teachings took place at Rinpoche's four main monasteries in Nepal ..."--P. 15.




Europe Central


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A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye on the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century to render a mesmerizing perspective on human experience during wartime. Through interwoven narratives that paint a composite portrait of these two battling leviathans and the monstrous age they defined, Europe Central captures a chorus of voices both real and fictional— a young German who joins the SS to fight its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the Stalinist assaults upon his work and life.




Science and Civilisation in China


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The Stones of Venice (Vol. 1-3)


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The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin. Ruskin examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. He discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city. As well as being an art historian, Ruskin was a social reformer. He set out to prove how Venetian architecture exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier works.




Western Decorative Arts: Volume 1


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This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire', and, the centerpiece of the collection, the Suger chalice, an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections,Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object, together with an artist biography, up-to-date bibliography, and a technical analysis.