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FAITH HILL: THE STORY OF HER LIFE, FROM BIRTH TO HER 2012 COMEBACKFrom humble beginnings in Star, Mississippi, Faith Hill soared to the top of the country and pop charts, becoming one of the most successful female recording artists in history. Her albums have sold millions. Up until the end of 2000, everything she touched turned to platinum. Early in 2001 she announced that she was taking time off from her recording career to spend more time with her children and her husband, Tim McGraw. It was a fateful decision that sent her career into a decade-long tailspin. Faith Hill: The Long Road Back tells the inspirational story of the Grammy-winning singer's rise to stardom and her subsequent fall from grace. Drawing on interviews with Faith Hill, her childhood friends and teachers, music professionals, and fans, James L. Dickerson chronicles her storybook life from birth through her initial success, up to her courageous 2012 comeback. This intimate portrait of Faith Hill examines her adventurous Huck Finn-like childhood, her first marriage and divorce, her hardscrabble years as a struggling artist in Nashville, her love affair with the man who became her husband (country superstar Tim McGraw), her thoughts on marriage and motherhood, and heartbreaking search for her birth mother and her subsequent death. Complete with photographs and insider information on the music industry, here at last is the whole story behind the life and music of Faith Hill-country music's most tenacious pop superstar. This book is an expanded and updated reprint of the authorâs 2001 biography, Faith Hill: Piece of My Heart. James L. Dickerson is a bestselling writer, author of the award-winning âMojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock ânâ Roll" and "Goin' Back to Memphis." His biography âAshley Judd: Crying on the Insideâ was a #1 bestseller on the Kindle charts. Author: James L. Dickerson Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: Sartoris Literary Group (2012-01-28) (2012-01-28) List Price: Amazon Price: 
John Denver has sold over 60 million albums worldwide making him one of the best selling artists of all time. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Denver's first RCA album Rhymes And Reasons and is the 30th anniversary of his recording "Annie's Song." In his amazing career, Denver has sold over 60 million records worldwide and is one of the best selling artists in history with 21 Gold, 14 Platinum and seven Multi- Platinum certified albums. His numerous awards and honors include: the Grammy Hall of Fame Award (1997), induction into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1996), the People's Choice Award (1977), the Albert Schweitzer Music Award (1993), multiple American Music and Country Music Association Awards (including Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year), and the Academy of Country Music Award. Universally loved and successful, he wrote and recorded some of the most recognizable and covered songs of our time. BMG Strategic Marketing Group assembles here, the definitive single disc collection of Denver favorites, along with a bonus disc of special and previously unreleased songs that every fan will want to have. Pulled from the original master tapes and remastered to perfection, this is the purest sounding John Denver ever.Atists: John Denver Audio CD: Company: RCA (2004-10-05) List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: $6.81 Used Price: $4.68 
The wedding of Great Britain's Prince William and Catherine (Kate) Middleton dazzled the world in April 2011, and this BBC documentary, The Royal Wedding, is a must-have for all royal fans. Those who watched the long coverage on American TV will appreciate the care with which the BBC has edited the processionals to a very crisply moving hour-plus, covering all of the pomp and magic of the fairy-tale day. Even the most ardent anglophile, who's already gasped in admiration of the lovely Kate and her charming prince, will find The Royal Wedding the perfect remembrance of that day. It's all here: The radiant Middleton in her dreamy long-sleeved Alexander McQueen gown, the handsome William in his military uniform, the comely Pippa Middleton carrying her sister's train, the grumpy flower girl, the sea of hats--and the two kisses from the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the adoring crowds to see. The wedding ceremony itself is also quite lovely, with choirs who'd rehearsed for months, and a sermon of simplicity and depth for the solemn state occasion. After the ceremony, William and Kate, newly christened the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, wave to adoring crowds and look genuinely happy. The disc includes a fascinating mini-documentary about the relationship of William and Kate, who met at university and dated on and off for many years before becoming engaged. The special feature, William and Kate: A Royal Engagement, gives context and humanity to the young couple's courtship, and is the perfect companion piece to the official wedding DVD. Anyone who loves the British royal family, or history, or fairy-tale love stories will want to have The Royal Wedding--and watch it every so often to relive the magic. --A.T. Hurley 
Novelist and essayist Hilary Masters recreates a moment in 1940s Pittsburgh when circumstances, ideology, and a passion for the arts collided to produce a masterpiece in another part of the world. E. J. Kaufmann, the so-called "merchant prince" who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, was a man whose hunger for beauty included women as well as architecture. He had transformed his family's department store into an art deco showcase with murals by Boardman Robinson and now sought to beautify the walls of the YM&WHA of which he was the president. Through his son E. J. Kaufmann, jr (the son preferred the lowercase usage), he met Juan O'Gorman, a rising star in the Mexican pantheon of muralists dominated by Diego Rivera, O'Gorman's friend and mentor. O'Gorman and his American wife spent nearly six months in Pittsburgh at Kaufmann's invitation while the artist researched the city's history and made elaborate cartoons for the dozen panels of the proposed mural. Like Rivera, O'Gorman was an ardent Marxist whose views of society were radically different from those of his host, not to mention the giants of Pittsburgh's industrial empire-Carnegie, Frick, and Mellon. The murals were never painted, but why did Kaufmann commission O'Gorman in the first place? Was it only a misunderstanding? In the discursive manner for which his fiction and essays are noted, Masters pulls together the skeins of world events, the politics of art patronage, and the eccentric personalities and cruel histories of the period into a pattern that also includes the figures of O'Gorman and his wife Helen, and Kaufmann, his wife Liliane, and their son. Masters traces the story through its many twists and turns to its surprising ending: E. J. Kaufmann's failure to put beautiful pictures on the walls of the Y in Pittsburgh resulted in Juan O'Gorman's creation of a twentieth-century masterpiece on a wall in the town of Pátzcuaro, Mexico. Author: Hilary Masters Hardcover: 130 pages Company: University of Pittsburgh Press (2005-04-04) ISBN: 0822942607 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $17.06 Used Price: $18.95 
CHRONICLES THE RISE OF CHESS RECORDS AND ITS RECORDING ARTISTS. IN 1950S CHICAGO,CADILLAC RECORDSFOLLOWS THE EXCITING BUT TURBULENT LIVES OF SOME OF AMERICA'S MUSICAL LEGENDS, INCLUDING MUDDY WATERS, LEONARD CHESS, LITTLE WALTER, HOWLIN' WOLF, ETTA JAMES AND CHUCK BERRY.Director: Darnell Martin DVD: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009-03-10) List Price: $14.99 Amazon Price: $7.96 Used Price: $7.92 ![Portrait of an Artist: Les Silences De Manet [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JCC6HHBEL._SL160_.jpg)
This illuminating 1989 study of Edouard Manet celebrates the French painter through a densely informative survey of Manet's work, the historical and social context of its creation, and its permanent effect on the history of art. "Before the invention of cinematography," asserts the highbrow narration, "Manet created the freeze-frame," eliminating the possibility of sentimental interpretation and capturing his subjects in "those moments of absence when the mind is elsewhere." Thus did Manet become the founder of modern art, seizing power over public taste with such then-scandalous works as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (a.k.a. "Luncheon on the Grass") and Olympia, and emphasizing silence to create scenes and portraits with a "strange gravity," reflecting Manet's Paris and yet isolated in a unique world of their own. A superb companion piece to Baussy-Oulianoiff's 1985 film on Picasso, Les Silences de Manet may be daunting for novice art students, but it's vastly preferable to a shallower treatment. --Jeff ShannonDirector: Didier Baussy VHS Tape: Color, NTSC Company: Homevision (2000-06-13) ISBN: 0780019822 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $9.25 Used Price: $2.47 EDITH MAUD SUSANNA SCANNELL an artistic lady who sadly failed to earn an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography so we dont know very much about her..
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You've Been Lonesome, Too Atists: Various Artists Audio CD: Company: Columbia (2011-10-11) (2011-10-04) List Price: $11.98 Amazon Price: $8.62 Used Price: $7.24 ![Funny Girl [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21H9JEGG2ZL._SL160_.jpg)
Ah, Barbra. Of all her onscreen personas, she sparkles in none as she does in her role as 1930s comedian Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl. Portraying the life of this star of stage and radio, Brice preens and prances and sings, captivating her audience both onscreen and off. Fanny Brice started life on the Lower East Side of New York, the daughter of a Jewish saloon owner. Not the prettiest girl around, Brice still managed to quickly rise to stardom as a performer in the Ziegfield Follies. A shrewd, obstinate woman, Brice dictated her own success story on stage; things were a different matter in romance. Falling hard for the stunning Nick Arnstein (suavely played by Omar Sharif), Brice must navigate a difficult marriage. While kids may love the tunes (which include the now-infamous "People," as in "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world"), the plot is definitely adult-oriented. Enjoy this one, but don't go too far out of your way for the sequel, Funny Lady. --Jenny BrownDirector: William Wyler VHS Tape: Color, NTSC Company: Sony Pictures (2001-10-23) ISBN: 080010661X List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $1.89 Used Price: $0.01 
2012 two CD set. Filled with songs that lived at the top of the charts at Gospel radio, this double CD set is chock full of hits, including songs from Kirk Franklin , Mary Mary, and Marvin Sapp plus newcomers Wess Morgan and BET Sunday Best winner Le'Andria Johnson. Each WOW Gospel installment to date has achieved great success, garnering Gold and platinum certifications along with a faithful fanbase.Atists: Various Artist Audio CD: Company: Verity (2012-01-24) List Price: $13.98 Amazon Price: $9.78 Used Price: $11.75 
Artist of the Tender Moment
Mary Cassatt always wanted to be an artist. But to reach her goal, she had to overcome many barriers. At the time Mary lived, people frowned on girls from wealthy families having a career. Her parents did not want her living the "odd" life they thought artists lived. Few art schools even accepted girls and women as students. And the "art world" held one idea of what painting should be but Mary had a different idea.
Mary did not give in to these prejudices. After much travel, study, and hard work, she won over her parents and the critics. Today Mary Cassatt's "impressionist" paintings hang in the best museums and collections throughout the world. She helped change attitudes that for so long kept women from their dreams. She even played a part in winning the right for women to vote.
The Mary Cassatt doll is shown here in a dress and bonnet similar to what she wore in one of her self portraits. She comes with a little basket she might have carried food or art supplies in and a paint set and artist pad for you to use.
In the accompanying book Mary Cassatt: The Life and Art of a Genteel Rebel, you will follow the steps of this courageous woman. You will learn how she overcame centuries of prejudice to become one of the most renowned artists of all time. Reading about Mary, you will be inspired to believe in yourself and to reach for the stars.
Preview the biography!Toy: Doll, book, paint set and small pad Company: Girls Explore LLC List Price: $39.99 Amazon Price: $19.99 
The artist Ai Weiwei -- photographer, architect, gambler, orchestrator of installations, organizer of happenings, troublemaker and tweeter -- is one of China's most outspoken dissidents. He has continually tested the bounds of free speech and in the Spring of 2011, Beijing officials took the dare. Since June, he has remained under virtual house arrest, forbidden from blogging, tweeting and giving interviews to the foreign press. That did not stop GQ's Wyatt Mason from trying to pay him a visit.Author: Wyatt Mason Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: GQ Magazine (US) (2011-12-05) (2011-12-05) List Price: $1.99 Amazon Price: ![Lust for Life [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YCP9MZK5L._SL160_.jpg)
Lust for Life is appropriately titled, for mere passion seems inadequate when describing this superb fictionalized biography (based on Irving Stone's popular novel) of Vincent Van Gogh. In a deservedly Oscar®- nominated performance, Kirk Douglas is physically and emotionally perfect as the tormented Dutch painter, whose life is chronicled from his ill-fated stint as a preacher to Belgian miners in 1878, to his Impressionist-inspired artistic awakening and psychological descent to suicide in 1890. Having triumphed with 1952's The Bad and the Beautiful, Douglas, producer John Houseman, and director Vincente Minnelli brought vigor and vitality to this blessed project, which centers on Van Gogh's stormy friendship with fellow artist Gaugin (Oscar-winner Anthony Quinn). Minnelli used an outmoded color film process and innovative camera techniques to vividly recreate Van Gogh's paintings, and he filmed on the actual Dutch and French locations where Van Gogh's mastery flourished. The artist's lust for life also fed his madness, and this film deeply understands the fine line in between. --Jeff ShannonDirector: George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli VHS Tape: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Company: MGM (Warner) (1998-09-01) ISBN: 6301971191 List Price: $14.98 Amazon Price: $11.95 Used Price: $2.75 
Product DescriptionIconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allows his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy®-winning, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide follows the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography. Beginning with Allen s childhood, WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY chronicles the trajectory and longevity of Allen s career, from his work as a TV scribe, standup comedian and frequent TV talk show guest, to a writer-director averaging one film-per-year for more than 40 years. Director Weide covers Allen s earliest film work in Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Sleeper, and Love and Death; frequent Oscar® favorites such as Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Purple Rose of Cairo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands & Wives, Bullets Over Broadway, and Mighty Aphrodite; and his recent globetrotting phase with Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the recent success Midnight in Paris. Features interviews with: actors Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Penelope Cruz, John Cusack, Larry David, Mariel Hemingway, Scarlett Johansson, Julie Kavner, Diane Keaton, Martin Landau, Louise Lasser, Sean Penn, Tony Roberts, Chris Rock, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Dianne Wiest and Owen Wilson; writing collaborators Marshall Brickman, Mickey Rose and Doug McGrath; cinematographers Gordon Willis and Vilmos Zsigmond; Allen s sister Letty Aronson; longtime manager Jack Rollins; casting director Juliet Taylor; pals Dick Cavett and Martin Scorsese; and others. Special FeaturesClosed Captions 12 Questions with Woody AllenExclusive Deleted Scenes and InterviewsInterview with Director Robert B. WeideDirector: Robert Weide DVD: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Company: DOCURAMA (2012-02-14) List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $20.99 
For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.Author: Jeannette Walls Paperback: 288 pages ISBN13:, Condition: USED - Very Good, Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Company: Scribner (2006-01-09) (2006-01-09) ISBN: 074324754X List Price: $16.00 Amazon Price: $3.31 Used Price: $0.52 |
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This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Table of Contents: Novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Ulysses (1922) Play: Exiles (1915) Poetry: Chamber Music (1907) Short story collection: Dubliners (1914) Short Stories: After the Race Araby The Boarding House Clay Counterparts The Dead An Encounter Eveline Grace Ivy Day in the Committee Room A Little Cloud A Mother A Painful Case The Sisters Two Gallants Appendix: James Joyce Biography List of Works in Alphabetical Order Author: James Joyce Kindle Edition: 1299 pages Kindle eBook Company: MobileReference (2007-11-20) (2007-11-20) List Price: $1.99 Amazon Price: 
The Classic "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce.Author: James Joyce Paperback: 192 pages Company: CreateSpace (2012-01-17) ISBN: 1452886946 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $5.72 Used Price: $3.89 
Henley Anderson loves Branton, but she doesn't want to get married. Branton Stone loves Henley, but he's serious about being married. Yesterday would have been fine. When push comes to shove, Henley runs... Branton chases. Can he ultimately catch His Escape Artist?Author: Christine Wingate Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: Christine Wingate (2012-01-29) (2012-01-29) List Price: Amazon Price: 
 The Artist’s Way is one of the bestselling gift books of all time. Beautifully packaged with a slipcase and ribbon, this tenth anniversary gift edition is the ideal gift for loved ones engaged in creative lives. Author: Julia Cameron Hardcover: 256 pages ISBN13: 9781585421473, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Company: Tarcher (2002-03-18) (2002-03-18) ISBN: 1585421472 List Price: $40.00 Amazon Price: $21.16 Used Price: $21.18 
"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me. But you can call me Mike." Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe ... he can open them all. It's an unforgivable talent. A talent that will make young Michael a hot commodity with the wrong people and, whether he likes it or not, push him ever close to a life of crime. Until he finally sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long. Steve Hamilton steps away from his Edgar Award-winning Alex McKnight series to introduce a unique new character, unlike anyone you've ever seen in the world of crime fiction. The Lock Artist is the winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Author: Steve Hamilton Paperback: 336 pages Company: Minotaur Books (2011-03-01) (2011-03-01) ISBN: 0312696957 List Price: $14.99 Amazon Price: $7.49 Used Price: $4.26
The artist Ai Weiwei -- photographer, architect, gambler, orchestrator of installations, organizer of happenings, troublemaker and tweeter -- is one of China's most outspoken dissidents. He has continually tested the bounds of free speech and in the Spring of 2011, Beijing officials took the dare. Since June, he has remained under virtual house arrest, forbidden from blogging, tweeting and giving interviews to the foreign press. That did not stop GQ's Wyatt Mason from trying to pay him a visit.Author: Wyatt Mason Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: GQ Magazine (US) (2011-12-05) (2011-12-05) List Price: $1.99 Amazon Price: 
"I am an artist..." begins Eric Carle's vibrant tribute to the creative life. And just like an imaginative child, this is one artist who paints the world as he sees it - a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox, a black polar bear and a wonderful polka-dotted donkey. Filled with some of the most magnificently colourful animals of Eric Carle's career, this is a book that celebrates imagination and the artist within us all. Inspired by the work of the great Expressionist painter Franz Marc, a founder of the artists' group known as "Der Blaue Reiter" ("The Blue Rider"), who famously used abstract blue horses in his paintings. Marc's vibrantly colourful paintings influenced generations of artists, and fired the imaginations of children's book artists far and wide. Examples of Marc's paintings and a short biography are included at the end of the book.Author: Eric Carle Hardcover: 32 pages Company: Philomel (2011-10-04) (2011-10-04) ISBN: 0399257136 List Price: $17.99 Amazon Price: $10.08 Used Price: $10.17 
You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, col- lect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination. Author: Austin Kleon Paperback: 160 pages Company: Workman Publishing Company (2012-02-28) ISBN: 0761169253 List Price: $10.95 Amazon Price: $5.82 
Susanna Miller loses custody of her eleven-month-old son, Tyler, but rather than turning the little boy over to her ex-husband and his new wife, she goes on the run. She dyes her hair, changes her name and escapes from Boulder, Colorado, leaving behind everyone she knows including Linc Sebastian, the man who has been her best friend since childhood and who knows her better than anyone. Susanna lands in Annapolis, Maryland, alone, frightened, and always looking over her shoulder for someone who might recognize her. Just as she's beginning to feel safe in her new surroundings, she stumbles across information that could save the lives of many people . . . if she's willing to take it to the police. But going to the authorities means revealing her identity, admitting her guilt, and worst of all, losing her son. Equal parts family drama, love story, and thriller, The Escape Artist is the poignant story of a mother's unbreakable bond with her child and the resiliency of a love that transcends distance and time. Kirkus Reviews calls The Escape Artist "a sure-fire grabber." Author: Diane Chamberlain Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: (2010-10-15) (2010-10-15) List Price: $4.99 Amazon Price: 
For years, the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines has been the industry bible for graphic designers and illustrators. This, the 13th edition, continues the tradition with new information, listings and pricing information based on surveys of working designers. It addresses legal rights and issues such as how copyright laws affect the income and work of graphic artists. It also provides tips on how to negotiate the best deals and how and what to charge for work, and includes sample contracts. For design and illustration professionals, there is no more comprehensive and informative resource.Author: Graphic Artists Guild Paperback: 352 pages Company: Graphic Artists Guild (2010-09-29) ISBN: 0932102158 List Price: $39.99 Amazon Price: $15.60 Used Price: $17.32 |