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Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

Phoebe Hoban

Phoebe Hoban's Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty tells the unforgettable story of a woman who forged a permanent place in the pantheon by courageously flaunting convention, both in her life and her work.
Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

Phoebe Hoban

Basquiat resurrects both the painter and his time.
Russell Hoban/forty Years: Essays on His Writings for Children

Russell Hoban/forty Years: Essays on His Writings for Children

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Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

Phoebe Hoban

The brief career of a man who went from a teenage graffiti writer to an international art star, dying at age 27 of a drug overdose, is profiled in this first biography of the charismatic figure. Photos.
New York Magazine

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Frederick L. Kotkin Milpitas, Calif. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY PHOEBE HOBAN wasted time in her article referring to four of Woody Allen's films that touch on child molestation, seemingly in an attempt to prove that this taboo is one of his ...
Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

Phoebe Hoban

This first biography of the English painter and grandson of Sigmund Freud traces the life of this extraordinary artist who painted everyone from Kate Moss to Queen Elizabeth and whose intent was always to find and reveal the character ...
New York Magazine

New York Magazine

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Making Dough Out of Bret PHOEBE HOBAN'S ARTICLE " 'PSYCHO' DRA- ma" [ December 17] only reinforces what I've suspected all along: Our culture is absolutely sick. Why are reputable publishers allowing such a graphic novel of violence ...
Come Dance With Me

Come Dance With Me

Russell Hoban

Taking the reader from the River Lea via a haunted woodland bog, out to the crash of the Pacific surf on Kahakuloa Head in the Hawaiian Islands, this is Russell Hoban at his engrossing, inimitable best.
Kleinzeit

Kleinzeit

Russell Hoban

Kleinzeit. In German that means 'hero'. Or 'smalltime'. It depends on whom you ask. 'Russell Hoban is our Ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
My Tango With Barbara Strozzi

My Tango With Barbara Strozzi

Russell Hoban

Navigating several London Underground lines and considerable planetary activity, Russell Hoban's intriguing romance tangos its way through a world of infidelity, artificial eyeballs, baseball bats and music - never missing a daring, ...
Becoming Phoebe

Becoming Phoebe

J. Michael Neal

But she knows things are never that simple. Becoming Phoebe is about painful secrets, unexpected friendships, and joining a team so you can become your true self."--Page 4 of cover.
Phoebe the Spy

Phoebe the Spy

Judith Berry Griffin

During the Revolution, Phoebe Fraunces has a chance to save the life of General George Washington while he has dinner at Mortier House in New York City.
Deep Down Popular: A Wish Novel

Deep Down Popular: A Wish Novel

Phoebe Stone

Phoebe Stone's first novel, All the Blue Moons at the Wallace Hotel, was hailed as “haunting and poetic” by The New York Times. The Boston Globe said of her second novel, Sonata #1 for Riley Red, “literature doesn't get much better than this ...
Russell Hoban/Forty Years: Essays on His Writings for Children

Russell Hoban/Forty Years: Essays on His Writings for Children

Alida Allison

"Russell Hoban. "Thoughts on a Shirtless Cyclist, Robin Hood. Johann Sebastian Bach, and One or Two Other Things." Children 's Literature in Education 4 (1971): 23. 1-Christine Wilkie, Through the Narrow Gate (London: Fairleigh Dickinson ...
Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, ...

Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, ...

Lee Donovan

... 898, 899 Nina V. 446 John Roy W. 851 Pheobe (Hubbard) 445 John W. Ruth 849, 850 Phoebe 445, 446 Laura Ruth (Crawford) 850 Phoebe (Marvin) 446 Lola Sallie 849 Phoebe Hubbard 446 Maragrey Sarah (Beale) 899 Reinold, Lieut.
The Boy on Cinnamon Street

The Boy on Cinnamon Street

Phoebe Stone

Phoebe Stone tells the winning story of the spring when 7th grader Louise Terrace wakes up, finds the courage to confront the painful family secret she's hiding from - and finally get the boy.
Phoebe the Fashion Fairy

Phoebe the Fashion Fairy

Daisy Meadows

Kristy's friend Charlotte is having a birthday party. But everyone's pretty party outfits are a mess! Phoebe the Fashion Fairy has to track down her magic bag--and fast!
The Turtle Diary

The Turtle Diary

Russell Hoban

William's and Neaera's diaries tell the story of how they achieve the turtles' freedom, and in the process re-define their own lives.
Protecting Phoebe

Protecting Phoebe

Shelli Stevens

With her life on the line, can she protect her heart?
The Romeo and Juliet Code

The Romeo and Juliet Code

Phoebe Stone

A sudden trip to a seaside house.
Paris for Two

Paris for Two

Phoebe Stone

The best cure for a terrible crush on someone like Windel Watson is a trip across the ocean.
Pennsylvania Archives ...

Pennsylvania Archives ...

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Romeo Blue

Romeo Blue

Phoebe Stone

When Flissy Bathburn's parents first dropped her off in Bottlebay, Maine, she hated everything about it.
Seasons of the Witch

Seasons of the Witch

Constance M. Burge

Follows the Halliwell sisters--Phoebe, Piper, and Paige--as they experience more Wiccan adventures.
Presents for Phoebe: Growing Independent

Presents for Phoebe: Growing Independent

Paul Rhode

The story is a young girls awakening to the importance of giving.
Pilgermann

Pilgermann

Russell Hoban

'Pilgermann here. I call myself Pilgermann, it's a convenience. I don't know what I am now .'
Angelica's Grotto

Angelica's Grotto

Russell Hoban

Angelica's Grotto is a pornographic website into which seventy-two-year-old art historian Harold Klein wanders one evening.

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