Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By
Laura Cumming
Laura Cumming

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1,729 books

Ready

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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Ten Days in May
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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1,841 books

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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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1,113 books

Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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80 books

Art

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The Monuments Men
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and Millais
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
The art of acquiring

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77 books

Nederland

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Home and Migrant Identity in Dialogical Life Stories of Moroccan and Turkish Dutch
De Wadden: een geschiedenis
Joden en het Huis van Oranje
Herinneringen aan Anne Frank: het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis

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348 books

History

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Becca
Viking Britain
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Last Kingdom
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Rot ist mein Name
Conspiracy

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54 books

Non Fiction

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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Chicas muertas
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
When We Cease to Understand the World
Discourse on Colonialism
The Mother of All Questions
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

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269 books

Non Fiction

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Nicholas and Alexandra
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Becoming
What She Ate

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165 books

Love

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Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition
Sense and Sensibility
Revolutionary Road
Anna Karenina
The Catcher in the Rye
The Hobbit
Peter Pan

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97 books

Memoir

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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School in Paris
Ordinary Girls : A Memoir
Good Talk
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
The Reckonings
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

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68 books

Favorites

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Jane Austen
The Complete Novels
Mister Babadook
Gilead
Circe
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

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21 books

Art Design

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Steal Like an Artist
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Thinking with Type
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Ogilvy on Advertising
Logo Design Love
Constructive Anatomy

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165 books

In My Library

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My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir
Trust
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
Birnam Wood
Time's Arrow
Our Share of Night
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow