A fictional memoir, inspired by the author’s own experience and by his long friendship with other serious photographers and their unrevealed histories...The story involves a cross-country trip with a platinum printer and his digitally-minded son, as they challenge each other’s art and authority across time zones. The love life of the characters gives an extra dimension to the story, in their attempt to redefine family. This is a unique read in the narrative of photography and visual thinking.

The Last Living Master: black platinum, red gold (Masters of Vision)

Blotnick, Elihu

Literature & Fiction

Firefall

A bomber with a portfolio, free because he fits no profile, finds his way to a family prize. The narrator is a master of explosives, always learning, a pagan chemist, entertaining new beliefs, a sophisticated survivor aware of the irony of his existence, balancing his contradictions: focused but impulsive, daring and cautious, and determined to redirect humanity. Free because he also fits a socio-political use, privileged yet poor by choice, he attacks a predatory world with violence, to save the future and his family, if they don’t damn him first. A hero to himself, he plays with fire, before more venomous paths reveal themselves. Fiction-mystery/action/romance. Firefall’s Mystery of Fortune series posits a simple axiom: fortune is a mystery to itself, luring us into the arms of the unexpected. Personal wealth and psychic health may ease the way, but they’re always elusive. We decide our fate, even if it's unintended. Not surprisingly, each book in this series expands the series in unpredictable ways. Each stands on its own as well.

Fused: The Cult of the Counter-Culture (Mysteries of Fortune)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Zebra, XY

Mystery

<p>The 4th R, rendering the remote, in theory and practice; education: digital, visual, narrative, each employing the principles of the others. The Author Years of experience as poet-photographer, publisher, editor, and textbook creator prompted Elihu Blotnick to make this sweeping proposal for change in the elementary curriculum. The Experience The rapid digitization of the modern world as it encroaches on the nature centered learning at a two-room school in a redwood grove suggests a new kind of lesson plan. The possibilities are explored on all levels, resulting in MeTech, a perspective that encourages the fostering of digital natives, comfortable with the future.</p>

Digital Natives: Mastering Our World (SciFire Learning)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Mary C Gladstone, a descendent of rebels and high Tories, seeking moral truth, offers an open view of her Macdonald uncle and his lasting influence. The Laird-to-be died twice, in war and again by slander in the press, with the prevailing code of honor broken by an unlikely cannibal, literally. By re- creating her uncle’s life and adding to the British narrative in all its layered complexity, Mary has completed the first book in her Highland Trilogy. Growing up with the pagan Broonie and the future Archbishop, influenced by his Crabbe & Lockhart military ancestors, trained to be an effective agent of empire through his classical, sporting public school education and his time at Oxford as a rower, flyer, and student of history, Angus Macdonald looked forward to a bright future. He joined the Argylls and embarked on a military career that put him on the front line in Malaya, in WW2 as Chief of Staff to various Commanders, where he lived in tents, out-ran tanks in his baby Fiat, and escaped, only to die at sea in uncertain circumstances. Seventy-five years later, his niece Mary Gladstone sets out to retrace his life to find out why her uncle’s mysterious death had so deeply affected her family. Her quest is like that of her Lockhart ancestor who rode to the crusades with the heart of King Robert the Bruce. In the years after WW2, Largie castle, roofless through neglect, was reduced to a rubble of stones & with it the author’s own sense of self & family. Gaining full understanding, she ends with an inspired disquisition on the British Empire, that nicely defines its evolving and layered character.

Largie Castle: a rifled nest (The Highland Sea)

Gladstone, Mary C

Parenting & Relationships

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