When her family falls apart, fourteen-year-old Zoe feels like her whole world is going to pieces. Zoe's mother takes her kids away from their father, a fisherman who ships out to Alaska, and moves them to a run-down farmhouse she's inherited in the Midwest. Zoe's stuck -- in more ways than one. Surrounded by strangers and a sea of prairie grass, she loses her bearings. A brush with the law lands Zoe in a work program at a local nature preserve. But the work starts to ground and steady her. When she meets a wild boy who shares her love of untamed places, it seems he might help Zoe find her way. Or is he too lost, too damaged himself? Funny and poignant, sharp-eyed and real, this is a portrait of a girl looking for her own true self and a place she can call home.

Draws on diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's own observations to offer insight into how Impressionist masters reflected the civilization and sensuality of the nineteenth century, in a volume of paintings, photographs, and other ephemera that also evaluates the contributions of Impressionists and Impressionist-inspired artists from other countries.

More than two hundred full-color photographs of both contemporary dwellings and Morris's own residences capture the style and design of the Arts and Crafts Movement, documenting William Morris's important influence on fabrics, furnishings, wall treatments, rugs, ceramics, metalwork, and other decorative items. 15,000 first printing.

A celebration of the relationships between some of the world's top impressionist artists and their homes considers the links between Monet and Giverny, Renoir and Les Cagnes, and Pissarro and the Hermitage, in an illustrated account that describes the artists' daily routines and some of the inspirations for their paintings.

Product Description: A movement dedicated to the revival of traditional craftsmanship, Arts and Crafts was enthusiastically embraced by all those who had become disenchanted with shoddy mass-production at the turn of the 20th century. This comprehensive history of Arts and Crafts traces both the origins of the movement and examines the personalities behind it...read more

This volume offers an insight into the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists which included Rosetti, John Millais, William Holman Hunt, Thomas Woolner, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Paintings, portraits, photographs of interiors, furnishings and textiles designs are also included.

An account of the homes of the people involved in the famous Bloomsbury set, which illustrates the rooms, objects d'art, and general memorabilia collected and left behind by individual members of the group.

Product Description: An illuminating cookbook which explores the food and art of 19th-century France--an era ablaze with the genius of such artists as Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Morisot, Cezanne, Pissarro, Manet, Gauguin, and Degas--Celebrating the Impressionist Table contains 100 elegantly presented, classic recipes typical of what the artists themselves would have enjoyed...read more

Seventh-grader Tucker needs to come up with a winning science fair project in a hurry, so he uses his fat friend Angelo as an experimental subject and in the process learns about more than just science.

Product Description: Many Impressionist paintings celebrate the conviviality of good food, of tables set out of doors, or vast picnics spread beneath the shade of hospitable trees. Todd follows the painters through France and celebrates the cuisines they would have sampled.'

Product Description: One of a series of books which celebrates flowers, this title deals with tulips. It contains extracts of poems, novels, country tales and myths, as well as accounts of how the flower was first discovered and cultivated. Medicinal, culinary and even mystical properties are also revealed...read more

Product Description: One of a series of books which celebrates flowers, this title deals with daffodils. It contains extracts of poems, novels, country tales and myths, as well as accounts of how the flower was first discovered and cultivated. Medicinal, culinary and even mystical properties are also revealed...read more

A lavishly illustrated gift book for flower lovers reveals the historical symbolism of flowers and plants--such as the waterlily used to reject unwelcome suitors--and explains how to create a bouquet that conveys the correct feelings.