Alone Together Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 Jennifer Haupt
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CENTRAL AVENUE PUBLISHING Alone Together Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 Jennifer Haupt Bestselling authors and poets come together to contribute essays, poetry, and interviews about love, grief, and comfort during the coronavirus pandemic with proceeds to benefit the independent booksellers who play an integral role in literature. Summary ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All contributing authors Central Avenue Publishing and business partners are donating their share to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit 9781771682282 organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. The roster of Pub Date: 9/1/20 On Sale Date: 9/1/20 diverse voices includes Faith Adiele, Kwame Alexander, Jenna Blum, Andre Dubus III, Jamie Ford, Nikki $16.99 USD/$22.99 CAD Giovanni, Pam Houston, Jean Kwok, Major Jackson, Devi S. Laskar, Caroline Leavitt, Ada Limón, Dani Shapiro, Discount Code: LON David Sheff, Garth Stein, Luis Alberto Urrea, Steve Yarbrough, and Lidia Yuknavitch. ALONE TOGETHER is Trade Paperback divided into five sections: What Now?, Grieve, Comfort, Connect, And Don't Stop. The overarching theme is 288 Pages how this age of isolation and uncertainty is changing us as individuals and a society. Carton Qty: 56 Literary Collections Contributor Bio LCO000000 Jennifer Haupt is an author and journalist who has written for O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, 9 in H | 6 in W The Rumpus, The Seattle Times, Spirituality & Health, The Sun, Travel & Leisure, and many other Contributor Images publications. TMI My Life in Scandal Perez Hilton, Leif Eriksson, Martin Svensson The story of how Mario Lavandeira becomes Perez Hilton, the world's first and biggest celebrity blogger, with millions of readers around the globe—while also becoming the most hated man in Hollywood Summary TMI is the story of how Mario Lavandeira became Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger with millions of readers around the globe who was sometimes called the Most Hated Man in Hollywood. Growing up in Miami’s Little Havana in the 1980s, Perez was bullied at school because of his weight and his sexual orientation, so he Chicago Review Press devoted all his free time to eating and watching TV in his bedroom. A scholarship to NYU was a lifesaver, as 9781641604048 Perez felt at home in New York. But his finances took a battering, and he moved on to L.A. 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Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson have written several autobiographies for international celebrities, including UFC star Alexander Gustafsson’s The Mauler, Samantha Fox’s bestseller Forever, and drummer Matt Sorum’s Double Talkin’ Jive. IPG Fall 2020 - July 2020 Page 1 THRUMS BOOKS True Colors World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments Keith Recker An immersive visual experience and an inspiring travelogue of personal stories and practical information from artists who are leaving their mark on the world Summary True Colors is about artists who create color from natural materials and about the historical importance and Thrums Books environmental sustainability of this practice. All new content in this revised edition features Heartwear, a 9781733200387 collaborative of artists and fashion designers who have created and supported indigo-dyeing projects from Pub Date: 10/1/20 On Sale Date: 10/1/20 Benin to Morocco to India and beyond. 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Behind the Fig Leaf Unabashed Renaissance Art History Patty Civalleri With nearly 400 images, tales, humorous anecdotes, and thoroughly-researched history, Italy expert and author Patty Civalleri treats you to one of the most delightfully fun and easy reads you have enjoyed in years Summary Zoom in on the key people and events that gave birth to the Renaissance Era. Get to know their obstacles and backstories, their loves, losses, and victories. Above all, understand their art and the driving forces behind it. How did the little walled-in town of Florence give rise to this massive swell of geniuses that 1-Take, LLC together became the thundering voice that dragged Western Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the light? 9780998192680 How was it possible that the 1,000-year medieval Dark Ages could have changed so radically simply because Pub Date: 10/31/20 of art? 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She has written and photographed for the Costen Institute’s prestigious journals in addition to over 150 business and marketing clients around the country. She lives in Southern California. IPG Fall 2020 - July 2020 Page 2 VÉHICULE PRESS Talking to a Portrait Tales of an Art Curator Rosalind Pepall Pepall's stories sparkle with clarity and leave one with a sense that art is an amazing, worthwhile, occasionally mysterious human activity Summary This is a collection of stories about art works—whether an oil portrait, a wilderness explorer's sketchbook, or a Tiffany lamp—and how the author fell under their spell. Few people are aware of the work, the emotion, and the obsessions of a curator's job. Exhibitions come and go; they are forgotten after a few years, but they live Véhicule Press on in the curator's memory. In these fifteen essays we encounter artists falling in and out of love, family 9781550655414 tragedies, the creation of the Stanley Cup, the secrets of Tiffany, Antiques Roadshow, a rootless baroness, the Pub Date: 9/1/20 design craze for aluminum, small Japanese boxes called kogos, watercolour sketchbooks of the Canadian On Sale Date: 9/1/20 $17.95 USD north, a beautiful prayer room in Montreal, gondolas flying through windows in Venice, and Moscovites who Discount Code: LON love Goldfinger. Archival black and white photographs and colour plates—including Edwin Holgate’s Ludivine, Trade Paperback one of the most beloved and recognizable Canadian portraits ever painted—make this book a must-have for 240 Pages art lovers, students, academics, museum-goers, and readers interested in the role art plays in the creation of Carton Qty: 54 our lives. 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