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The doll : a portrait of my mother / by Kadare, Ismail,author.; Hodgson, John,1951-translator.; translation of:Kadare, Ismail.Kukulla.English.;
At the centre of young Ismail's world is the unknowable figure of his mother. Naive and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's great stone house, with its hidden rooms and infamous dungeon, and is constantly at odds with her wise and thin-lipped mother-in-law.She is not without her own enigmas, and she fears that her intellectual son-- ho uses words she doesn't understand, publishes radical poetry, falls in love freely and seems to be renouncing everything she embodies of the old world-- will have to exchange her for a superior mother when he becomes a famous writer.
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Mothers and sons; Families; Children; Reminiscing; Conflict of generations; Self-realization in women;
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Powered by love : a grandmothers' movement to end AIDS in Africa / by Henry, Joanna,1974-; Landsberg-Lewis, Ilana,1965-; Landsberg, Michele,1939-; MacDonald, Alexis.;
Author Joanna Henry and photographer Alexis MacDonald visit eight African countries, interviewing and photographing hundreds of grandmothers who are raising children orphaned by AIDS.LSC
Subjects: Grandmothers; Grandmothers; AIDS activists; AIDS (Disease);
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Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell / by Yaffe, David,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Mitchell, Joni.; Composers; Singers; Women composers; Women singers;
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Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman / by Massie, Robert K.,1929-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.; Empresses;
© c2011., Random House,
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Winnie and Nelson : portrait of a marriage / by Steinberg, Jonny,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking union, a very modern political marriage which was performed on the world stage"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013; Mandela, Winnie; Mandela family.; Anti-apartheid activists; Political prisoners' spouses; Political prisoners; Politicians; Women anti-apartheid activists; Women politicians;
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Capturing Camelot : Stanley Tretick's iconic images of the Kennedys / by Kelley, Kitty.; Tretick, Stanley.;
Subjects: Kennedy family; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Tretick, Stanley.; Photographers; Portrait photography.;
© c2012., Thomas Dunne Books,
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The strange and deadly portraits of Bryony Gray / by Latimer, E.,1987-;
Bryony Gray, a painter, is beginning to be noticed in London art circles. Unfortunately her uncle keeps her locked up in the attic to paint for his wealthy clients. When her paintings start to look odd and take on a life of their own, Bryony starts going through her family history and discovers that her evil uncle has put a curse on her and her family, a curse she must break. LSC
Subjects: Gothic fiction.; Horror fiction.; Painters; Family secrets; Blessing and cursing; Missing persons; Uncles;
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A portrait of the scientist as a young woman : a memoir / by Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.,author.;
A memoir from a world-renowned planetary scientist explores her remarkable life story, the struggles she faced as a woman in the field, and her work as the leader of NASA's Psyche mission to explore the largest known metal-rich asteroid.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.; Planetary scientists; Women astronomers;
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Self-portrait in the zone of silence / by Aridjis, Homero,author.; McWhirter, George,translator.; translation of:Aridjis, Homero.Autorretrato en la zona de silencio.English.;
"Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus, denunciations of drug traffickers and political figureheads, and unforgettable imaginary landscapes. As Aridjis himself writes: "a poem is like a door / we've never passed through ... " And now past eighty, Aridjis reflects on the past and ponders the future. "Surrounded by light and the warbling of birds," he writes, "I live in a state of poetry, because for me, being and making poetry are the same.""--
Subjects: Poetry.; Spanish language materials;
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Dream machine [graphic novel] : a portrait of artificial intelligence / by Appupen,author,illustrator.; Daudet, Laurent,author.; translation of:Appupen.Dream machine, ou comment j'ai failli vendre mon âme à l'intelligence artificielle.English.;
Hugo, a Parisian entrepreneur, has launched his startup on Large Language Model technology at the heart of the revolution embodied by ChatGPT. On the verge of securing the deal of the century with the digital giant REAL, he wonders about the latter's real motivations: is this the making of a dream or a nightmare? Could Hugo's developments be used for social and political control? REAL's plans for the international launch of their "immortality game" seem to be increasingly opaque, and as useful and efficient AI promises to be, he begins to realize it may also be a potential source of catastrophic outcomes and indecent concentrations of wealth.
Subjects: Science fiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence;
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