Author: Maya Lin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501146564
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
Author: Darnishia Bolden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105049973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Flat chested and agile as monkeys, the pretty little Sheppard sisters hunt exotic insects as decorations for their mud pies and childhood games. Yet, by the age of ten, Mya Sheppard's body has outgrown her innocent mind. Deeply troubled by its unwanted attention, Mya climbs trees hoping to remain within the protected cradle of childhood. But the violence that chased the Sheppard girls to California finds them and forces them and their Mother back to Georgia and into the home of Donovan Sheppard's religious parents. Struggling against bouts of anxiety brought on by salty California, Mya finds herself in a whirl of trouble one afternoon when she's left in the care of a grandfather who finds her tempting. Despite the domestic issues plaguing the family, this assault seizes Mya's ability to defend her body against others, and her own hands. Brutally honest and graphically told, Mya introduces the reader to the life of a family fighting for love and normalcy, and struggling to remain together.
Author: Sunrize Jackson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524614750
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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Mya is a young girl, who believed she knew what she wanted every time she walked out of her parents door and into some kind of situation that she needed to make alone. Along the way, she has certain relationships with people who influence her decisions. She looks for love and finds many obstacles that test her courage to either move on, fight, or stand the test of time as she searches.
Author: Carol Morosco
Publisher: Saguaro Books, LLC
ISBN: 1545759723
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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This story goes back and forth between the present and the past. Mya is a modern-day girl living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her mom. Her mom has a shop and makes dance costumes. Mya loves to dance and takes ballet at a studio with her friends. One day the classroom teacher announces that the school will close because a terrible virus, called Covid, is spreading through the country. More bad news soon follows. In 1918, Elsa lived in Philadelphia. She lived in the same house as Mya. Elsa shared the home with her mother, father and grandmother. They had come to America from Germany.
Author: Tom Merritt
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387722492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Mya is a salvager in a system long ago mined out and abandoned by the Gallium Corporation. But when she finds an ancient ship buried deep on a Moon, someone tries to stop her. What did she find? Why do they want to leave it hidden? And should Mya risk her job-- and her life-- to make the salvage of a lifetime?
Author: Keiah Ellis
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1615798625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Leisa watched in dismay as the television screen flashed aerial pictures of the rescue workers trying to reach injured people in the train wreckage. Coverage of the breaking news story had interrupted her afternoon lineup of home and garden shows, as she swept the kitchen floor. She dropped her broom, and grabbed the remote. She turned the volume up, and held her breath as she listened for more information. She looked over at the clock and realized that it was very close to the time that her daughter's train was scheduled to arrive into town. Oh, please, God, don't let that be Annie's train! PLEASE let her be alright! she silently prayed. She jumped as the phone rang loudly beside her. She picked it up quickly, hoping that it was her daughter saying that she was fine and had been nowhere near the train accident. "Hello?" she said, anxiously. KEIAH ELLIS is a passionate, young author from Shreveport, Louisiana. She is thrilled about the completion of her first novel, which she envisions to be the first in a series. Aside from her love of writing, she is a self-proclaimed foodie whose favorite pastimes include cooking, eating, entertaining, and spending time with her family and friends. She loves music, and sings in the Praise and Worship ministry with her dad at their church. She has a heart for teenage girls, and has a vision to start her own women's ministry in the very near future. At 25 years old, she is the younger of two sisters, and currently lives with her parents, who recently celebrated 30 years of marriage. She loves God with all her being, and strives daily to be a light in darkness, bringing glory to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, with every opportunity she is presented!
Author: David Charles
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291271325
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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'The Soles of My Shoes' is a hitch-hiking travelogue, a Kerouac for the sustainability generation. In this time of austerity cuts, climate change, under-employment and over-education, what better way to travel? This is a story of spontaneity, of adventure, of responsibility, of sustainability, of doubt and conviction - and perhaps even of love. It will appeal to the great generation of hitch-hikers young in the sixties, as well as to the youth of today who feel trapped by financial constraints and the expectations of social conformity.
Author: G. I. Wu
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543422810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Meet Mya Miller and Antonio Gabino. Mya, an undergraduate student, is away at college in Carbondale, Illinois. Antonio, her boyfriend, is a manager for a company in Plainfield, Indiana. They are trying to keep their connection strong from a distance. But will Mya's past prevent their relationship from prospering, or will Antonio's heavy lifestyle weigh her down? When conflict arises at Antonio's job involving his secretary, he will be confronted with a choice that will affect his life and successful business tremendously. Can a love that's lasted for so long still endure through the struggle? Engage in their stories to unravel how these lovers undergo such trials.
Author: M. Malone
Publisher: CrushStar Romance
ISBN: 1938789334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The New York Times bestselling author of One More Day returns with a heartwarming romantic comedy about two complete opposites on a quest to discover the formula for dating success. Bennett Alexander is a scientist, an inventor and speaks four languages but the intricacies of the social contract are something he’s never mastered. His childhood friend, Olivia, is the only one who understands him but he has no idea how to go from friends to lovers. If only love could be like one of his lab experiments; start with a hypothesis, control the variables and then test until you find a solution. Katie Mason is everything he is not. Warm, funny and beloved by his entire family, she’s also a single mother desperate for a job after a painful divorce. With her help, Bennett decides to run the most important experiment of his life. Katie will be the control and with her help, he will test how to modify his behavior. Once he finds the formula for attraction, he might have a shot at being the kind of guy a woman could fall for. With Katie as his teacher, they embark on a series of unorthodox dating lessons. Soon she has him doing the craziest things from going on fake dinner dates to reading fantasy novels to having…fun. From what he can tell, there’s just one thing wrong with his experiment – the fact that Katie seems to like him exactly the way he is. What’s a brilliant scientist to do when he suspects that he’s falling in love?
Author: Kristi Farley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146342163X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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What do you do with the rest of your life when your reason for living doesnt exist anymore? Aaliah Carye is a girl that was the perfect example of content, a high school senior at Providence High in Providence, Rhode Island, hiding behind her books and looking for love in novels instead of opening her eyes to the real world, until she met Garrett Blake who opens her eyes to not only the real world, but to a dream that she can not believe is reality. Everything that she thought she wanted changes, she starts to find out that there is more to her then she ever thought, and that she does not have to run to a fairy tail to find love anymore until everything falls apart. Garrett moves back to Providence to get his depressed mother away from Boston, the city that she hates after his fathers death. His little sister Sandy and he try to live a normal life and try to keep their mother from killing herself. When he finds Aaliah, he realizes that he can find happiness in his crazy world, but a mistake he makes turns everything upside down. Trying to live two separate lives away from their reasons for living causes both of them to go crazy, but they have to let each other go. Even if it does mean that they will never be happy until they are together again.
