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"From the visionary author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, an epic novel tracing the conception and construction of a colossal statue--and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake. "Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer who, with each ever more triumphant book, creates a new language with which she writes the audacious stories only she can tell," Roxane Gay has written. Now, Yuknavitch bridges the nineteenth...
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Álvaro Siza Vieira, a famous visionary Portuguese architect, is called to coordinate the rehabilitation of the monuments and architectonic heritage of Cidade Velha (Old Village) in Santiago, one of the African islands of Cape Verde. This project creates great expectations among the local population, who envisages it as a way of improving their quality of life.
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Extrait : "Il y a quatre cents ans, lorsque Quasimodo, accoudé sur la balustrade des tours de Notre-Dame, regardait Paris étendu sous ses pieds, voici ce qu'il voyait : un océan de toits aigus, de pignons taillés, de clochetons sculptés, de tourelles accrochées aux angles des murs ; un luxuriant fouillis de pyramides de pierre, d'obélisques d'ardoises, de donjons massifs, de tours aériennes, de flèches brodées en dentelles."
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When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of...
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"Vermont may be small in population, but it looms large with innovation. The state constitution was the first in America to ban slavery, provide for universal male suffrage and establish a system for publicly funded education. Ethan Allen capturesd Fort Ticonderoga for America's first victory. An eleven-year-old Willie Johnson was America's youngest Medal of Honor winner, and Grace Coolidge became the one and only First Lady to have a raccoon as a...
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