Alarm Girl

Alarm Girl
Author: Hannah Vincent
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908434465

When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in the foreign landscape and confused by the family's silence surrounding her mother's recent death. Unable to find solace in either new or old faces, she begins to harbour violent suspicions in place of the truth. Steeped in the dry heat of a South African summer, this keen and touching debut seamlessly interweaves the voices of Indigo and her mother, and beautifully captures the human desire to belong: in a family, in a country, in your own skin.

Pulpsmith

Pulpsmith
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 800
Release: 1984
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

McCall's

McCall's
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1924
Genre: Dressmaking
ISBN:

Silent Alarm

Silent Alarm
Author: Jennifer Banash
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0698173430

Alys’s whole world was comprised of the history project that was due, her upcoming violin audition, being held tightly in the arms of her boyfriend, Ben, and laughing with her best friend, Delilah. At least it was—until she found herself on the wrong end of a shotgun in the school library. Her suburban high school had become one of those places you hear about on the news—a place where some disaffected youth decided to end it all and take as many of his teachers and classmates with him as he could. Except, in this story, that youth was Alys’s own brother, Luke. He killed fifteen others and himself, but spared her—though she’ll never know why. Alys’s downward spiral begins instantly, and there seems to be no bottom. A heartbreaking and beautifully told story.

Report

Report
Author: Michigan. Dept. of Labor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1906
Genre:
ISBN:

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America
Author: Elena Shtromberg
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606067915

With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin America since the 1960s. The emergence of video art in Latin America is marked by multiple points of development, across more than a dozen artistic centers, over a period of more than twenty-five years. When first introduced during the 1960s, video was seen as empowering: the portability of early equipment and the possibility of instant playback allowed artists to challenge and at times subvert the mainstream media. Video art in Latin America was—and still is—closely related to the desire for social change. Themes related to gender, ethnic, and racial identity as well as the consequences of social inequality and ecological disasters have been fundamental to many artists’ practices. This compendium explores the history and current state of artistic experimentation with video throughout Latin America. Departing from the relatively small body of existing scholarship in English, much of which focuses on individual countries, this volume approaches the topic thematically, positioning video artworks from different periods and regions throughout Latin America in dialogue with each other. Organized in four broad sections—Encounters, Networks and Archives, Memory and Crisis, and Indigenous Perspectives—the book’s essays and interviews encourage readers to examine the medium of video across varied chronologies and geographies.

Brackie

Brackie
Author: Klabund
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1927
Genre:
ISBN: