Best American Artists 20th Century - April 2024

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316226181
• ASIN: 0316226181
• ISBN: 9780316226189
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B004AP9W2I
• ASIN: B004AP9W2I
• Manufacturer: Random House

A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battle... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476764522
• ASIN: 1476764522
• ISBN: 1476764522
• Brand: Hemingway, Ernest/ Hemingway, Patrick (FRW)/ Hemin
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded -- a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been. For the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671028456
• ASIN: 0671028456
• ISBN: 9780671028459
• Brand: MTV Books
• Manufacturer: MTV Books

The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374515360
• ASIN: 0374515360
• ISBN: 0374515360
• Brand: Noonday Press
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Just Kids

• ASIN: 0060936223
• ASIN: 0060936223
• ISBN: 9780060936228
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE   The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.   A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812983580
• UPC: 884394110718
• ASIN: 0812983580
• ISBN: 2002400873
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Black Dahlia Avenger: One of the Most Notorious Murders of the Twentieth Century . . . Solved!

• ASIN: B00U7Y5TI2
• ASIN: B00U7Y5TI2
• Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing

J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist

One of the most prolific and successful artists of the Golden Age of American Illustration, J. C. Leyendecker captivated audiences throughout the first half of the 20th century. Leyendecker is best known for his creation of the archetype of the fashionable American male with his advertisements for Arrow Collar. These images sold to an eager public the idea of a glamorous lifestyle, the bedrock upon which modern advertising was built. He also was the creator instantly recognizable icons, such as the New Year’s baby and Santa Claus, that are to this day an integral part of the lexicon of Ameri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0810995212
• ASIN: 0810995212
• ISBN: 0810995212
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of personal, historical, and geographic discovery Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. "Cause for celebration . . . A superb novel with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contem... [Read More]

• ASIN: B002CIY8FG
• ASIN: B002CIY8FG
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Seventh Most Important Thing

This “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS!AN ALA NOTABLE BOOKAN ILA TEACHERS CHOICEA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR  Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of that matters to the judge—he is ready to send Arthur to juvie forever. Amazingly, it’s the Junk Man himself who offers an alternative: 120 hours of commun... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553497316
• ASIN: 0553497316
• ISBN: 0553497316
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Yearling

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * UPDATED TEXT WITH RESULTS OF THE CLARK ESTATE SETTLEMENT * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times * Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. * When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-fir... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345534530
• ASIN: 0345534530
• ISBN: 9780345534538
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, the intellectual, scientific, and artistic capital of the western world, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough.Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416571779
• ASIN: 1416571779
• ISBN: 1416571779
• Brand: Simon Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

This astonishing book will change the way you see the world -- and your place in it. With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that will begin just after the millennium.William Strauss and Neil Howe base this vision on a provocative new theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0767900464
• ASIN: 0767900464
• ISBN: 0767900464
• Brand: William Strauss
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended)

"This award-winning picture book biography for the elementary grades is a remarkable introduction to the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the concept of self-expression in art." - Seira Wilson, Amazon EditorWinner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardJean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316213888
• ASIN: 0316213888
• ISBN: 9780316213882
• Brand: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Three Dog Night - 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Three Dog Night (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of Three Dog

• UPC: 829008
• Rating: 4.857

20th Century Masters: The Best of Aerosmith (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of

• UPC: 19599519
• Rating: 5.0

The Temptations - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Temptations, Vol.1 - The '60s (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of The Temptations, Vol. 1

• UPC: 845417
• Rating: 4.875

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of Smokey Robinson & The

• UPC: 832278
• Rating: 5.0

Buddy Holly - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Buddy Holly (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of Buddy

• UPC: 869054
• Rating: 4.556

Boyz II Men - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Boyz II Men (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of Boyz II

• UPC: 2408411
• Rating: 4.444

20th Century Masters: The Best of John Mellencamp (CD)

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• UPC: 31520719

20th Century Masters: The Best Of Uriah Heep - The Millennium Collection

20th Century Masters: The Best Of Uriah Heep - The Millennium

• UPC: 1550837
• Rating: 5.0

George Straight - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of George Strait (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of George

• UPC: 1756812
• Rating: 5.0

Best Of The 60's: Millennium Series - 20th Century Masters (CD)

Best Of 60's Millennium: 20Th Century Masters /

• UPC: 1113548