In this innovative concept and unique presentation, fine art painter Linden Frederick has created 15 paintings and enlisted and inspired noted writers to create accompanying stories. Renowned authors as diverse and talented as Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, Anthony Doerr, Richard Russo and Lawrence Kasdan, among others, have contributing to expanding the artists' world with their tales, as varied and captivating as the artworks themselves. 
From concept to realization, Night Stories has been nine years in the making. Finding his work collected by a growing number of authors/screenwriters/playwrights, artist Linden Frederick wondered why they connected so strongly to his work. So he asked, beginning with a conversation with local writer and friend, Richard Russo. His conversations then extended to the other literary figures whose work is included in this book: Luanne Rice, Lois Lowry, Andre Dubus III, Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, Anthony Doerr, Tess Gerritsen, Ted Tally, Lily King, Dennis Lehane, Joshua Ferris, Daniel Woodrell, Louise Erdrich, and Lawrence Kasdan. Each had a unique response, and each agreed to write a short story to accompany one of Frederick's paintings. 
Frederick is an artist whose work is rooted to small-town America, work that has sometimes been described as "stage sets," and that has provoked the imagination of some of the most important talents of the day. These writers have here commented on Frederick's art in the genre they know best, storytelling. Unlike any other book by a contemporary fine artist, this unique and compelling collection is the best of what a book can be: a perfect entertainment that combines visual and written art offered up by a collaboration of some of the greatest talents in each field.

Night Stories: Fifteen Paintings and the Stories they Inspired

Arts & Photography

Frederick, Linden

Individual Artists

Glitterati

The Sleeping Beauty: A journey to the Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre

Ebong, Ima

at the Shore : a Maine Coastal Garden

RICHARD GRANT

The ocean has always been a source of inspiration for surfers, beach lovers, and sailors alike. In Surf, artist Peter Wise pairs sixty of his evocative paintings of the surf with anecdotes from surf-lovers around the world-from professional surfing legends to surfing journalists to businessmen who are surfers at heart. These original paintings are sure to inspire anyone who understands surfing to be a metaphor of personal expression.

Surf

Sports & Outdoors

Wise, Peter

Water Sports

More than a cookbook, the Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book delineates a lifestyle at the top of English society and intelligentsia at the time. This treasure trove that includes unlikely dishes such as Turnips Cresselly and Penally Pudding contains, even, another cook evident in the work: The recipe for boiling rice is in Charles Darwin's own hand. The image of Darwin standing over a pot of boiling water with his pocket watch in hand, is one to savor, along with every other vestige of a lost kitchen and lifestyle come back to life here.

Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book: Revived and Illustrated

Bateson, Dusha

Janeway, Weslie

Debra Shriver tells the story of finding and restoring a house in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. Part love letter, part scrapbook; readers are given a rare tour of this enigmatic city. The book is a cultural guidebook and historical reference of America's most European city, featuring the work of more than 20 photographers and artists. Chapters highlight food and entertaining, decorating, gardens, landscapes, local traditions, interiors, and architecture.

Stealing Magnolias: Tales from a New Orleans Courtyard

History

Shriver, Debra

Americas

Edwina Sandys has a huge reputation as artist and feminist too, and has been working for more than forty years in the arenas of sculpture, painting, collage, drawing and printing. This is the first and only collection of these efforts. She also happens to be the granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill and thus has a certain renown just in this regard.

Edwina Sandys Art

Sandys, Edwina

Seebohm, Caroline |AW

History & Criticism

Having spent the last 20 years in Africa photographing wildlife alongside the likes of Peter Beard, David Gulden has come to understand that his endeavour is more than one to create appealing artworks, but instead to create a document of the declining landscape of all the precious creatures that live there. In 95 black-and-white photographs that feature tranquility, bursts of action, portraiture, and the natural canvas of the animals and their environments, he visualises for us the concept of global change so famously described by William Yeats in his poem, 'The Second Coming,' and from which the inspired title of this work derives. Join this extraordinary photographer and environmentalist, David Gulden, on a phenomenal personal yet universal safari that until the publication of this book would not have been possible except through actual travel; a safari where nature's creatures are captured with greater intimacy and artistry than one would have thought possible.

The Centre Cannot Hold

Gulden, David

Photography & Video

Part memoir and part inspirational reader, a useful tool for anyone in recovery from addiction. Part memoir and part inspirational reader, It's Never Too Late details William Moss's journey from small-town Texas to a stint in Hollywood and onward to the height of business successes in Texas and New York, and at the center of political power in Washington, DC. Late in life, however, the endless martinis in exclusive clubs come to feel empty, and the author begins to align his life closer to God, culminating in finding the love partner of his life and later realizing, at the age of 85, that he is an alcoholic. So begins his road to recovery. Having turned around his life, the author not only offers his story, but thoughts, inspirational prayers, and scriptures that have helped in his journey and that will prove useful for anyone in recovery.

It's Never Too Late: My Spiritual Journey

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Moss, William

Addiction & Recovery

Stunning photography by acclaimed photographer Michael Clinton Michael Clinton's travels are ones to which many people today aspire, making Globetrotter Diaries an inspiring, informative, and entertaining guide to world travel today After publishing five previous photography books with Glitterati, this is the author's first foray into text-based book publishing and promises to be an excellent counterpoint to his image-based work In an era when the earth is our oyster, Michael Clinton is the premier globetrotter in search of its pearls. Over the course of more than 35 years, Clinton has traveled the seven continents documenting his experiences in photographs. Now, for the first time, Clinton tells it like it is. In Globetrotter Diaries, the author shares with us his adventures, his knowledge, and his witty reminiscences of his life on the road. As the author of five photography books with Glitterati, Clinton is well-versed in the native customs, rituals, and landscapes of the most popular and remote places around the world. This book provides the perfect companion piece to his photographic work. Here Clinton reveals himself as he learns the nature of humanity from its billions of inhabitants who make travel one of life's greatest pastimes.

Globetrotter Diaries: Tales, Tips and Tactics for Traveling the 7 Continents

Travel

Clinton, Michael

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