To Touch and to Cut

To Touch and to Cut
Author: Hilke Kurzke
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2009
Genre: Artists' books
ISBN:

"This book does not seem to be a book in the usual sense at all since its pages cannot be leafed through. Instead a shape opens up that might remind the viewer of a flower. On the white leaves, red lines are visible that add depth to the milky white, shine-through pages. The leaves are part of one long, folded strip of parchment paper that is not attached to the book case and can easily be removed. Taken out of its covers, it becomes apparent that this strip is folded in an ordinary accordion style. Hold the folded block against a light source and you'll see that the red lines across the pages are not random - they are all tangent to (i.e., are touching) a common circle. At the same time (and less apparent) all these lines also cut a larger circle with the same center. In fact, they each cut such circle, and with the circle being not uniquely determined, you cannot 'see' it as the touched circle. These larger circles are invisible, and you have to know they are there to know that the touching lines are also cutting." --artist's statement.

Touch & Geaux

Touch & Geaux
Author: Abigail Roux
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1937551865

After having their faces plastered across the news during a high-profile case, FBI Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett have become more useful to the Bureau posing for photo ops than working undercover. Just as Zane is beginning to consider retirement a viable option, Ty receives a distress call from a friend, leading them to a city rife with echoes from the past. New Orleans wears its history on its streets, and it's the one place Ty's face could get him killed. Surrounded by trouble as soon as they land, Ty and Zane are swiftly confronted with a past from which Ty can't hide — one with a surprising connection to Zane's. As threats close in from all directions, both men must come to terms with the lives they've led and the lies they've told. They soon discover that not all their secrets are out yet, and nothing lasts forever.

The Cut Out Girl

The Cut Out Girl
Author: Bart van Es
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2018-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0241978718

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times __________________________________________________ Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined. ___________________________________________________ 'Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street 'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian 'Sensational and gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time' Judges of the Costa Book of the Year 2018

Cut Off

Cut Off
Author: Adrianne Finlay
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0358006457

When something goes horribly wrong during the filming of a new virtual reality show, teenaged contestants are trapped in a simulation, questioning how much of the game is real.

Touching the Void

Touching the Void
Author: Joe Simpson
Publisher: Direct Authors
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0957519303

The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.