Dominic Smith
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, [this novel] follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
4) Utopia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the English statesman's classic denunciations of sixteenth-century tyranny and corruption and vision of an ideal society, along with historical and biographical notes
Author
Publisher
ATRIA Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of using poisonous mercury vapors to cure his daguerreotype images, his mind is plagued by delusions. Believing the world will end within one year, Daguerre creates his "Doomsday List" -- ten items he must photograph before the final day. The list includes a portrait of Isobel Le Fournier, a woman he has always loved but not spoken to in half...
Author
Series
BLS working papers volume 526
Publisher
U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Prices and Living Conditions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
10) Time Jumpers
Author
Language
English
Description
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
Author
Series
BLS working papers volume 552
Publisher
U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Prices and Living Conditions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English