The Cabinet of Wonders

The Cabinet of Wonders
Author: Marie Rutkoski
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-08-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429930004

Marie Rutkoski's startling debut novel, the first book in the Kronos Chronicles, about the risks we take to protect those we love, brims with magic, political intrigue, and heroism. Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock. Petra's life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home – blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. But why? Petra doesn't know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father's eyes back. Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father's clock has powers capable of destroying their world. The Cabinet of Wonders is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Notes on Glaze

Notes on Glaze
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781932698589

In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, the editors of the magazine would ask Koestenbaum to write one or more extended captions for a single photograph with which they had provided him; drawn from obscure vernacular, commercial and scientific sources, all of the images were unfamiliar to the author. After 18 installments, Koestenbaum concluded his column in the winter of 2015. Notes on Glaze, featuring an introductory essay by the author, collects all the "Legend" columns, as well as their accompanying photographs. Refusing the distancing language of critical disinterest, Koestenbaum's columns always locate the author in intimate proximity to the subjects portrayed in the photographs and to the impossibly variegated cast of characters--ranging from Debbie Reynolds to Duccio, the Dalai Lama to Barbra Streisand; from Hegel to Pee-wee Herman, and Emily Dickinson to Cicciolina--that pass through these texts. Wayne Koestenbaum (born 1958), a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, has published 17 books of poetry, criticism and fiction, including My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (Turtle Point Press, 2012) and The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (University of California Press, 2012). His most recent book of poetry, The Pink Trance Notebooks, was published in 2015 by Nightboat Books.

The Legend of Cavenaugh Island

The Legend of Cavenaugh Island
Author: E. Thornton Goode Jr.
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2023-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1663254230

An artist from Atlanta goes to the coast of Maine to paint the landscapes and seascapes. The local bartender tells him about an island about two miles offshore where there is an old deserted mansion. He explains that no one ever goes to the island because everyone believes it is cursed and haunted by the ghost of the original owner. That’s when he tells of the legend of the island. After several visits to the island and starting a painting of the mansion, he begins to have dreams about the original owner, who is the ghost that inhabits the house. In the dreams, the ghost shows him the secret of the house. He doesn’t realize it but finding and understanding the secret reveals the true history of the house and it completely changes his life.

The Moiré Effect

The Moiré Effect
Author: Lytle Shaw
Publisher: Book Horse/Cabinet Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Photographers
ISBN: 9783952339138

The life of legendary Swiss photographer Ernst Moiré is so shrouded in speculation that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure whose name will forever be linked with the well-known printer's error. Yet as scholar Lytle Shaw reveals in The Moiré Effect, when it comes to Monsieur Moiré and his circle, fact is often stranger than fiction. Tracking the artist from his humble Alpine beginnings as the son of a postal clerk to his fateful founding of a Zurich photography studio in the 1890s and his subsequent role in the lives of a number of curious figures--including the legendary Dutch architect Mer Awsümbildungs, the theosophist philosopher Rudolf Steiner and several members of the secretive Chadwick family--The Moiré Effect takes readers on a journey from the elegant salons of Swiss palazzi to the dusty bowels of ancient archives to a conclusion as hair-raising as it is oblique.

The Legend of Brokensword

The Legend of Brokensword
Author: Christopher Earl
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 136507661X

A young boy was hand picked by Merlin to help in his plot of dethroning and getting revenge against the rotten King Uther. As the scheme is executed things don't go according to plan. King Uther quickly acts to make the plan backfire by knighting the boy. King Uther rushes and gives the boy the name of Brokensword the knight. What does the future hold for this young knight? Will Merlin continue to pursue revenge on the King? Will the King ever pass down the throne? Find out all this and more in The Legend of Brokensword.

The Legend

The Legend
Author: Nancy Wakeley
Publisher: Light Messages Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1611534623

Legends clash with reality at the Calloway House. Kate Tyler isn't sure she's living the life she was meant to live. Eden Springs has been wonderful, but she can't deny the wanderlust tugging at her heart. Desperate for a change of pace, she packs her bags and heads to the ancient town of Rye, England where she hopes she'll find inspiration for her new travel blog. But when she arrives, mysteries follow her everywhere she goes. Strangers seem to know her, a book of ancient legends contains her mirror image, and Virginia Calloway is insistent that Kate come over to discuss the Legend of Arabella Courbain. Hoping to solve one of the many mysteries of this spontaneous trip, Kate agrees. But the deeper Kate digs into the truth of what happened to Arabella back in 1766, the more she learns that the present may not hold the answers she needs. When legends cross with reality, Kate must find the truth before history repeats itself. ??"Kate Tyler is a character of depth and passion you'll want to spend some time with." -Scott Gates, author of Hard Road South.

The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins

The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins
Author: Karsten Dahmen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1134159714

This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not only Alexander’s own coinage and the posthumous coinages of his successors, but also the re-use of his image by rulers from the Greek world and the Roman empire, to late antiquity. Also including numismatic material that exceeds all previous published works, and well-illustrated, this historical survey brings Alexander and his legacy to life.