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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County: A Novel
by Tiffany Baker

The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
by Geoff Nicholson

TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television
by Lynn Spigel

"A beautiful, startling, and wholly original novel, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County is infused with magic, lush language, and surprises on every page. Tiffany Baker has given us a flawed, prickly, enchanting heroine in Truly—part Cinderella, part Witch, part Behemoth. In ther timeless story of small town life, the boundary between reality and fairy tale does not exist, and happy endings are possible but hard-won. This book is a treasure." —Stephanie Kallos (Broken for You)

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"The gifted, resourceful Geoff Nicholson here conducts the reader on a leisurely, entirely delightful ramble through the history and lore of walking, an exercise that calls to my mind nothing so much as one of the few notable walking songs he fails to mention, the great New Orleans funeral march "Oh, Didn't He Ramble," as immortalized by Louis Armstrong and played by heaven knows how many other musicians, famous and obscure, from the Big Easy....  Walking can do that to you: take you to places you don't expect to go, people you don't expect to meet, entanglements you hadn't planned on. To be sure, walking is usually simply to get you from Point A to Point B, but it can be serendipitous as well." —Washington Post Book World more...

"Borrowing from French new wave cinema as much as abstract expressionism and pop art, television in Spigel's riveting account embraced modernism and participated in the taste wars of the 1950s and 1960s. In turn, art museums such as MoMA partnered with broadcast television and artists found employment at the networks.... By highlighting the dynamic and fluid relations between network television and modernism in painting, graphic design, and architecture, TV by Design challenges binaries between high and low, mainstream television and oppositional artistic practice." —Cecile Whiting (Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s) more...

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