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Book Indelible Ink  The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America s Free Press

Download or read book Indelible Ink The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America s Free Press written by Richard Kluger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." —Bill Keller, New York Times Book Review In 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challenge against the prevailing law that criminalized any criticism of the royal government. Zenger was thrown in jail for nine months before his landmark one-day trial on August 4, 1735, in which he was brilliantly defended by Andrew Hamilton. In Indelible Ink, Pulitzer Prize–winning social historian Richard Kluger has fashioned the first book-length narrative of the Zenger case, rendering with colorful detail its setting in old New York and the vibrant personalities of its leading participants, whose virtues and shortcomings are assessed with fresh scrutiny often at variance with earlier accounts.

Book Indelible Ink

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  • Author : Fiona Kelly McGregor
  • Publisher : Scribe Publications
  • Release : 2010-05-31
  • ISBN : 1921753161
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Indelible Ink written by Fiona Kelly McGregor and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2011 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD/ pbSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS/b SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney’s affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo — an act that gives way to an unexpected friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys. Before long, Rhys has introduced Marie to a side of the city that clashes with her staid north-shore milieu. Her children are mortified by their mother’s transformation, but have their own challenges to deal with: workplace politics; love affairs old and new; and, of course, the real-estate market. Written with Fiona McGregor’s incisive wit and keen eye, Indelible Ink uses one family as a microcosm for the changes operating in society at large. In its piercing examination of the way we live now, it is truly a novel for our times. PRAISE FOR FIONA MCGREGOR ‘This is a terrific “way-we-live-now” novel filled with anxieties about rising house prices, over-development and careers and marriages going nowhere. Verdict: absorbing.’ The Herald Sun ‘The best domestic novels use characters in a specific family or social setting to reflect and explore the values and issues of a particular time and place. Indelible Ink, which follows the intersecting lives of one Sydney family during the last days of the Howard era, is such a book — and looks set to be the most talked-about Australian novel since The Slap.’ Australian Book Review

Book Indelible Ink

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  • Author : Scott Larsen
  • Publisher : WaterBrook Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781578565542
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Indelible Ink written by Scott Larsen and published by WaterBrook Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two prominent Christian leaders discuss the books that shape their faith.

Book Buddha Da

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  • Author : Anne Donovan
  • Publisher : Canongate Books
  • Release : 2009-09-25
  • ISBN : 1847675522
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Buddha Da written by Anne Donovan and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that he’s taking up meditation at the Buddhist Centre in town, no one takes him seriously. But as Jimmy becomes more involved in his search for the spiritual his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz, and cracks begin to form in their previously happy family. With grace, humour and humility Anne Donovan’s beloved debut tells the story of one man’s search for a higher power. But in his search for meaning, Jimmy might be about to lose the thing that matters most.

Book The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink

Download or read book The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink written by Cydney Payton and published by Hardy Marks Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1976, Bud Shark has been one of America's esteemed and sought-after printmakers. Published by the great Hardy Marks imprint, The Legend of Bud Shark & His Indelible Inkexamines the printmaking of ten distinguished artists who have worked with this master printer, at his renowned Shark's Ink studio in the Colorado Rockies. This book is published on the occasion of the 2009 exhibition at MCA Denver, curated by director Cydney Payton, who is also editor of this volume. The works gathered here are the result of close collaborations between artist and printer, with the artists-John Buck, Enrique Chagoya, Bernard Cohen, Red Grooms, Don Ed Hardy, Jane Hammond, Robert Kushner, Hung Liu, Hollis Sigler and Betty Woodman-always working in residence. With Shark, on-the-spot decisions are made at every stage of the collaborative printmaking process-from how a plate can be made to the right paper for a given image.

Book Indelible  The Twixt  Book 1

Download or read book Indelible The Twixt Book 1 written by Dawn Metcalf and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Malone learns this the night she sees a stranger with all-black eyes across a crowded room – right before the mystery boy tries to cut out her eye.

Book Invisible Ink

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  • Author : Patrick Modiano
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-27
  • ISBN : 0300252587
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Invisible Ink written by Patrick Modiano and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a "mesmerizing, enigmatic novel" (Publishers Weekly) "Nobel Prize winner Modiano's title smartly ties together the theme, plot, and ambience of his latest book . . . The past overlaps and memories half-emerge in classic Modiano fashion, just as a message in invisible ink tentatively reveals itself in the right light."--Library Journal "An enchanting read."--Ploughshares The latest work from Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink is a spellbinding tale of memory and its illusions. Private detective Jean Eyben receives an assignment to locate a missing woman, the mysterious Noëlle Lefebvre. While the case proves fruitless, the clues Jean discovers along the way continue to haunt him. Three decades later, he resumes the investigation for himself, revisiting old sites and tracking down witnesses, compelled by reasons he can't explain to follow the cold trail and discover the shocking truth once and for all. A number one best seller in France, hailed by critics as "breathtakingly beautiful" (Les Inrockuptibles) and "refined and dazzling" (Le Journal du Dimanche), Invisible Ink is Modiano's most thrilling and revelatory work to date.

Book Indelible Ann

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  • Author : Meghan P. Browne
  • Publisher : Random House Studio
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 0593173279
  • Pages : 45 pages

Download or read book Indelible Ann written by Meghan P. Browne and published by Random House Studio. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folksy, larger-than-life picture book biography about Ann Richards, the late governor of Texas who has inspired countless women in politics today. Dorothy Ann Willis hailed from a small Texas town, but early on she found her voice and the guts to use it. During her childhood in San Diego and her high school years back in Texas (when she dropped the "Dorothy"), Ann discovered a spark and passion for civic duty. It led her all the way to Washington, DC, where she, along with other girls from around the country, learned about the business of politics. Fast forward to Ann taking on the political boys' club: she became county commissioner, then state treasurer, and finally governor of Texas. In this stunning picture book biography, full of vim, vigor, and folksy charm, two Texan creators take us through the life of the legendary "big mouth, big hair" governor of Texas, a woman who was inspired by Eleanor Roosevelt, and in turn became an inspiration to Hillary Clinton and countless others.

Book Indian Ink

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  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2017-12-05
  • ISBN : 0802188885
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book Indian Ink written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard, Indian Ink is a rich and moving portrait of intimate lives set against one of the great shafts of history—the emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of Europe. The play follows free-spirited English poet Flora Crewe on her travels through India in the 1930s, where her intricate relationship with an Indian artist unfurls against the backdrop of a country seeking its independence. Fifty years later, in 1980s England, her younger sister Eleanor attempts to preserve the legacy of Flora’s controversial career, while Flora’s would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India. Fresh from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway performance in 2014, Indian Ink is reemerging as an important part of Stoppard’s oeuvre and the global dramatic canon, a fascinating, time-hopping masterwork.

Book Purple  Green and Yellow

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  • Author : Robert Munsch
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 1992-05
  • ISBN : 9780613085946
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Purple Green and Yellow written by Robert Munsch and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigid goes overboard and paints on herself with her super-indelible-never-comes-off-till-you're-dead markers. Nothing will remove the color, so she uses a purple marker and cover all the other colors.

Book Indelible Mir

Download or read book Indelible Mir written by Yvon Taillandier and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed as one of the giants in the history of modern art, Joan Miró has long been fascinated by the processes and potentialities of printmaking. He has experimented with a great variety of techniques including a new etching process that utilizes carborundum and synthetic resins as well as the popular lithographic method that calls for drawing the original composition on transfer paper. His prints reveal his love of craft and awesome precision while communicating a new interpretation of reality through their color and line, harmony, and spontaneity. Indelible Miró is a handsome survey of the artist's achievements as a printmaker and illustrator from the early 1930s to the present. It is beautifully illustrated with 115 examples of his aquatints, drawings, drypoints, etchings, lithographs, book illustrations, posters, ranging from the sombre Barcelona Series through his prodigious Equinox to two charming new lithographs created especially for this book and suitable for framing.

Book The Accidental

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  • Author : Ali Smith
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2007-04-10
  • ISBN : 0307279758
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book The Accidental written by Ali Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith’s narrative freedom and exhilarating facility with language propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.

Book Corrections in Ink

Download or read book Corrections in Ink written by Keri Blakinger and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and relevant.” —The New York Times An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey—from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice. For the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. Then, on a cold day during her senior year, the police caught her walking down the street with a Tupperware full of heroin. Her arrest made the front page of the local news and landed her behind bars for nearly two years. There, in the Twilight Zone of New York’s jails and prisons, Keri grappled with the wreckage of her missteps and mistakes as she sobered up and searched for a better path. Along the way, she met women from all walks of life—who were all struggling through the same upside-down world of corrections. As the days ticked by, Keri came to understand how broken the justice system is and who that brokenness hurts the most. After she walked out of her cell for the last time, Keri became a reporter dedicated to exposing our flawed prisons as only an insider could. Written with searing intensity, unflinching honesty, and shocks of humor, Corrections in Ink uncovers that dark, brutal system that affects us all. Not just a story about getting out and getting off drugs, this galvanizing memoir is about the power of second chances; about who our society throws away and who we allow to reach for redemption—and how they reach for it.

Book The Sound of My Voice

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  • Author : Ron Butlin
  • Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
  • Release : 2018-04-05
  • ISBN : 0857909983
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book The Sound of My Voice written by Ron Butlin and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morris Magellan wakes one morning to find himself stuck in a corporate job and living the suburban dream with a wife and two children, except this dream feels like a nightmare. Out of his depth and starting to drift from reality, we meet Morris at the precipice. Bit by bit he is losing his struggle with addiction – he just doesn't know it yet. His only solace and escape from suburban family life and corporate duties is music and alcohol. His life is soundtracked with symphonies and concertos, every note, and every drink, carries him from moment to moment hoping to salvage something of himself before that too slips from his grasp. Harrowing but compellingly written, with humour and compassion, The Sound of My Voice is a stylistic masterpiece that presents conflict between a man's cowardice and cruelty, and a desperate attempt to recover his humanity.

Book Indelible City

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  • Author : Louisa Lim
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2023-04-18
  • ISBN : 059319182X
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Indelible City written by Louisa Lim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong’s history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim—raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city’s untold stories. Lim’s deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong—a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.

Book Indelible Ink

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  • Author : Helen Iles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-01-23
  • ISBN : 9781876922863
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Indelible Ink written by Helen Iles and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indelible Ink is a collection of prose and poetry by the author of Bitter Comes the Storm. Varied in style and subject matter the sixteen stories, fifteen poems and three articles have all gained major awards or commendations in competitions or been published in magazines or anthologies.

Book Ink

    Ink

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  • Author : Sabrina Vourvoulias
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-09-25
  • ISBN : 9780998705996
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ink written by Sabrina Vourvoulias and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system? Ink opens as a biometric tattoo is approved for use to mark temporary workers, permanent residents and citizens with recent immigration history--collectively known as inks"--Page 4 of cover.