Marks of Opulence: The Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000–1914A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize winning historian. Marks of Opulence is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of modernism. Tracing the history from the discovery of silver in the Harz mountains, through the catastrophic effects of plague in the 14th century, to the studied magnificence of papal and royal courts in the 16th and

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bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves

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a boy is inspired by a pet fish and fueled by imagination to tell a whimsical version of his own life story

“Straw is the story of a guy who had two strikes against him in the middle innings of life and hit one out of the park