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May our joy endure : a novel / by Lambert, Kevin,1992-author.; Winkler, Donald,translator.(CARDINAL)358417;
"Céline Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, finally unveils her plans for the Webuy Complex, her first major public project commissioned by the city of Montreal, her hometown. But instead of the triumphant celebration she anticipates in at last bringing her reputation to bear in her own city, the project is immediately excoriated by critics, who accuse the her of callously destroying the social fabric of struggling neighborhoods, ushering in a new era of gentrification, and many even deadlier sins. Caught in the turmoil between her vision for a new Montreal and the protestors whose actions grow increasingly personal, Céline must make sense of the charges against herself and the milieu in which she finds the people she believes to be her friends. For the first time in danger of losing their footing, what fictions do they tell themselves to justify their privileges, and to maintain their position in the world that they themselves have built? A dazzling social novel set in the microcosm of the ultra privileged, May Our Joy Endure depicts with razor-sharp acuity the terrible beauty of wealth, influence, and art in the era of late capitalism."--
Subjects: Novels.; Capitalism; City planning; Social classes; Upper class; Women architects;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The art dealer's apprentice : behind the scenes of the New York art world / by Guenther, David B.,1962-author.(CARDINAL)888733;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.Medardo and Campigli (carry-ons) -- Rome -- Carla -- Sam -- Gianluigi -- Italian exhibition -- Dealers -- Kandinsky -- First paycheck -- Balthus -- The Prince and the Pietzsches -- Berlin -- La goulue -- Italian class -- Auctions -- Runners -- Dubuffet (Barbara Mathes) -- Dinner at Carla's -- Picabia (Hans Neuendorf) -- Sam leaves the gallery -- Modigliani -- Friends getting married -- Brooklyn Fourth of July -- Fakes (summer) -- The wrong women -- Zurbarán -- Rothko -- Ulrike -- Chagall -- Pirates attack -- Motorcycle -- Renoir (Andrew Crispo) -- Mailoll -- The art market crashes -- Gianluigi is fired -- Tamayo (watermelons) -- Boccioni -- Fontana -- Carla decides to move the gallery downtown -- Tamayo (astrónomo0 -- I leave the gallery -- Epilogue."The Art Dealer's Apprentice tells the story of how the author moved to New York in 1989 as a young Midwesterner, found a job at an Upper East Side gallery, and became the protégé of Carla Panicali, an Italian countess and major international art world figure"--
Subjects: Guenther, David B., 1962-; Panicali, Carla, 1924-2012.; Panicali Fine Art (Gallery); Art and society;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moriarty the patriot. [manga] by Takeuchi, Ryosuke,adapter.(CARDINAL)814793; graphic novel based on the works ofDoyle, Arthur Conan,1859-1930.(CARDINAL)144251; Miyoshi, Hikaru,illustrator.(CARDINAL)851545; Ishii, Anne,translator.(CARDINAL)351774; Christman, Annaliese,letterer,illustrator.(CARDINAL)607358;
"Just as everything appears to be going his way, Sherlock finds himself arrested for a murder he didn't commit in a plot orchestrated by none other than Moriarty! He soon escapes police custody and sets out to clear his name. The victim, Count Drebber, wrote Sherlock's name in blood before he died, but why? Will Sherlock be able to solve this puzzle and save himself?"--Page [4] of cover.Rated: T+ for Older teen.
Subjects: Thriller comics.; Historical comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock; Upper class; Social stratification; Villains; Murder; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 10
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Moriarty the patriot. [manga] / by Takeuchi, Ryosuke,author.(CARDINAL)814793; Miyoshi, Hikaru,illustrator.(CARDINAL)851545; Beck, Adrienne,translator.(CARDINAL)340183; Christman, Annaliese,illustrator,letterer.(CARDINAL)607358;
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans canspin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty's upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family's hands cements Albert's hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older ofthe two boys--who has a genius mind and a killer instinct--to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert's own family!"--Publisher description.Rated T+, for older teen.
Subjects: Cartoons and comics.; Detective and mystery comics.; Historical comics.; Shōnen manga.; Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Manga.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Nobility; Criminals; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Moriarty the patriot. [manga] / by Takeuchi, Ryosuke,author.(CARDINAL)814793; Miyoshi, Hikaru,artist.(CARDINAL)851545; Beck, Adrienne,translator.(CARDINAL)340183; Based on (work):Doyle, Arthur Conan,1859-1930.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.(CARDINAL)745646;
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans canspin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty's upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family's hands cements Albert's hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older ofthe two boys--who has a genius mind and a killer instinct--to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert's own family!"--Publisher description.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Graphic novels.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock; Holmes, Sherlock; Nobility; Nobility; Criminals; Criminals;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Moriarty the patriot. [manga] by Takeuchi, Ryosuke,author.(CARDINAL)814793; Miyoshi, Hikaru,artist.(CARDINAL)851545; Beck, Adrienne,translator.(CARDINAL)340183; Christman, Annaliese,letterer.(CARDINAL)607358; Based on (work):Doyle, Arthur Conan,1859-1930.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.(CARDINAL)745646;
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans canspin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty's upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family's hands cements Albert's hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older ofthe two boys--who has a genius mind and a killer instinct--to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert's own family!"--Publisher description.Older Teen (16+)
Subjects: Detective and mystery comics.; Historical comics.; Graphic novels.; Manga.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock; Nobility; Criminals; Graphic novels;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The Picasso heist [large print] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.(CARDINAL)320355; Roughan, Howard,author.(CARDINAL)342049;
"The art world ignites with the discovery of a previously unknownPicasso painting. After being hidden away for fifty years in the attic of a French villa, it's valued at $100 million and put up for auction. Echelon, the Upper East Side auction house brokering the sale, is flooded with interest. ... None of the interested parties has a chance at winning the Picasso without the help of Halston Graham. The young auction-house employee graduated second in her class at Columbia, but she's a first-rate art thief--and an expert gambler who knows how to calculate the odds and play her considerable leverage against all sides. To complete the Picasso heist, she must stay one step ahead of the truth before the gavel falls"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973; Art auctions; Auction houses; Art thefts;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 7
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Point of no return / by Marquand, John P.(John Phillips),1893-1960.(CARDINAL)142409;
Raised in the small town of Clyde, Massachusetts, Charles Gray has worked long and hard to become a vice president at the privately owned Stuyvesant Bank in Manhattan. But at the most crucial moment of his career, when his focus should be on reading his boss's intentions and competing with his chief rival for promotion, Charles finds himself hopelessly distracted by the past.Years ago, the Gray family was featured in a sociological study of their hometown. Charles, his sister, and their parents were classified as members of the ٢lower-upper class,٣ the unspoken strains of their tenuous social status cast in stark black and white. A chance encounter with the author of the study fills Charles's head with memories-and when a business matter compels him to return to Clyde, it seems as if fate is intent on turning back the clock. As he reflects on the defining moments of his youth, Charles contends with one of the central mysteries of existence: how our lives can feel both predetermined and random at the same time.
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Holler rat : a memoir / by Liftig, Anya,author.(CARDINAL)874941;
Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent her childhood school years in Connecticut and her summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore the contradictions and unanswered questions of her life. But when the world Anya was building for herself shattered, she was forced to reconcile where she'd come from with who she was and who she wanted to be. In this book, Anya skillfully interweaves family lore from her childhood with descriptions of her performance art pieces and scenes of the year-long period in which her life fell apart, then plumbs the cathartic self-reckoning that followed. She takes us from her mamaw's porch to the site of a violent family land feud; from Yale to the rancid odors of a pre-gentrified Bushwick loft; and from making out with a 14-pound salmon to having 243 raw eggs pelted at her in the name of art. In visceral, beautiful prose that ranges from raunchy and outrageous to serious and tragic, this is the origin story of an unconventional artistic life and a captivating account of the stumbling blocks, sacrifices, and discoveries along the way.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Liftig, Anya.; Jews; Women artists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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An introduction to The age of innocence by Edith Wharton [sound recording] by Stone, Dan.(CARDINAL)516422; Auchincloss, Louis.spk(CARDINAL)140394; Cocks, Jay.spk(CARDINAL)844025; Copeland, Stephanie.spk; Gioia, Dana.nrt(CARDINAL)729808; Ives, David.spk(CARDINAL)523439; Molina, Alfred,1953-nrt(CARDINAL)348900; O'Rourke, P. J.spk(CARDINAL)730032; Spencer, Elizabeth,1921-spk; Tan, Amy.spk(CARDINAL)294244; Wharton, Edith,1862-1937.Age of innocence.Selections.; Arts Midwest (Organization : Minneapolis, Minn.)(CARDINAL)274228; Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)(CARDINAL)280052; National Endowment for the Arts.(CARDINAL)138252;
Narrated by Dana Gioia ; readings by Alfred Molina ; featuring Louis Auchincloss, Jay Cocks, Stephanie Copeland, David Ives, P.J. O'Rourke, Elizabeth Spencer, and Amy Tan.Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Wharton's The age of innocence, a novel about the upper classes of New York and the story of Newland Archer's love for Countess Olenska.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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