Laurie Lawlor
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"Scientist. Artist. Rule-breaker. In 1882, Marianne North showed the gray city of London paintings of jaw-dropping greenery like they’d never seen before. Images of flowers, birds, and insects from around the world delighted viewers. How did this remarkable woman capture such pictures? By traipsing across swamps, deserts, and jungles on foot, by horse, and even by log raft. Marianne was a wild bird who not only refused to let Victorian gender norms...
3) What music: the fifty-year friendship between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, who built his pianos
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"In 1787, aspiring yet unknown composer Ludwig van Beethoven arrives at young Nannette Stein’s home. What follows is a decades-long friendship that persists whether life hits a low or high note... Laurie Lawlor ... depicts how these two fascinating friends—a composer with hearing loss and a woman who became an innovative piano maker in a time that discouraged female entrepreneurship—fought the odds and worked together in perfect harmony." --publisher's...
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"Restoring Prairie, Woods, and Pond is about activism at the community level—and tells how a small village transformed a city-owned dumping ground into a nature trail with three distinct ecosystems that runs from an elementary school to a public library and community center....[This] book will explain how this trail became a valuable outdoor classroom during covid, a STEM teaching center, a respite for people young and old, and a place for community...