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Dressing Marilyn

by Oline Eaton

It’s difficult to find a new way to examine an iconic figure, especially one as popular as Marilyn Monroe, but "Dressing Marilyn", by Andrew Hansford, manages to do precisely that. In cataloging the costumes created for Monroe by... Read More

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All of Us or None

by Patty Comeau

All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area takes us from the streets into the trenches of some of the twentieth century’s most vibrant social justice struggles: in the small print shops and art collectives... Read More

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Beyond Bullets

Everyday life in Afghanistan trains the lens of a photojournalist’s camera, while embedded with American troops: from the view out of a combat helicopter above the mountains to a center for women’s rights and a campaign rally in... Read More

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Cotton Bales, Goatmen, and Witchs

by Lee E. Cart

Wandering ghosts, fiends, shadows of people who disappear when approached … these are the tales Turner has compiled into a chilling collection for anyone interested in ghost stories from the heart of Texas. Coupled with black-and-white... Read More

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Beyond Bullets

Everyday life in Afghanistan trains the lens of a photojournalist’s camera, while embedded with American troops: from the view out of a combat helicopter above the mountains to a center for women’s rights and a campaign rally in... Read More

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Missed Connections

by Julie Eakin

Love at first sight? It’s never out of fashion, according to this collection of lovely, quirky drawings recording many such hopeful moments. Celebrated are mostly young strangers in and around New York City, whose paths crossed or even... Read More

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Floating Worlds

by Dana Rae Laverty

Fans of the prolific author/illustrator Edward Gorey will delight in Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer, which chronicles the personal correspondence between the pair as they collaborated on three... Read More

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Sweet Stuff

by Elizabeth Millard

It seems that sugar and artificial sweeteners are currently considered by some nutritionists and other food experts to be part of an unholy trinity, along with fat and salt. The rising obesity problem, which is sending diabetes rates... Read More

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