Tumbleweed Found Booklist 1
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
by Jan-Phillip Sendker
A recent favorite of mine.
This is a passionate love story, a haunting fable, and an enchanting mystery set in Burma. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship
by Diane Schoemperlen
Recommended by a current consigner. A perfect companion while researching a collection of retablos.
One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God.... You know. Mary." Instead of a golden robe or a crown, she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition, Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch, and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds, so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture, art, history, as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro.
As this Everywoman and Mary become friends, their conversations, both profound and intimate, touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality, our need for faith, and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves.
Kintsugi: Finding Strength in Imperfection
by Céline Santini
I have a love for petina and signs of age. Even the cracks carrying beauty and character. Kintsugi highlights these “wounds” and makes them even more valuable and beautiful. What does the symbolize for us when we heal our own wounds?
Embrace the adversity in your life, heal your wounds, and build a more resilient you in Céline Santini’s award-winning self-care book inspired by the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi. Winner of the 2019 Golden Nautilus Book Award. Japan is an inspiration in the personal growth and development field. Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold. Day after day, week after week, stage by stage, the object is cleaned, groomed, treated, healed, and finally enhanced. Nowadays it has also become a well-known therapy metaphor to resilience. This practical book will help you overcome rough times, heal your deepest wounds, and become whole again through the numerous stages, writing exercises, and testimonies.
Always Room at the Top
by Ganna Walska
Signed book available through Tumbleweed Found, $450. Please DM for more information and to place your order.
Published in 1943, this is the story of the life of an internationally known personality --a woman of beauty and wit, and a patroness of the arts whose activities have always been directed toward fostering truth and beauty. Her patience and perseverance in endeavoring to create beauty, both in the material world and in the soul of humanity, are fully set forth in this book. Through these pages pass the most famous personages of her time in the fields of music, art, politics, religion, statesmanship and philosophy. Her story will be an inspiration to those who have been discouraged and disheartened in life. It is an honest and revealing tale.
“For constant dropping of water wears away stones. By diligence and patience the mouse ate the cable in two. And little strokes fell great oaks. “ Benjamin Franklin
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton
Signed (with West Coast memorial brochure for Horace Roscoe Cayton, Jr.) book available through Tumbleweed Found, $250. Please DM for more information and to place your order.
This book originates from a personal library library of a renowned academic. We work closely with families to rehome these notable libraries.
Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America. Based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers, it is a sweeping historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago’s South Side from the 1840s through the 1930s. Its findings offer a comprehensive analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the first half of the twentieth century.
John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (January 2, 1911 – June 15, 1990) was a pioneering black social anthropologist and activist, one of only nine black anthropologists before WWII. He dedicated his scholarship – ethnographic studies of race, class, and social structure – to the eradication of social inequalities and racial injustice.
Horace Roscoe Cayton Jr. (April 12, 1903 – January 21, 1970) was a prominent American sociologist, newspaper columnist, and writer who specialized in studies of working-class black Americans, particularly in mid-20th-century Chicago. Cayton is best remembered as the co-author of a seminal 1945 study of South Side, Chicago, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City.
Female Subjects in Black and White; Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism
Edited by Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen
3 copies available through Tumbleweed Found, $30 each. Please DM for more information and to place your order.
This book originates from a personal library of an eminent figure in women’s studies and the feminist movement. We work diligently to rehome these publications.
This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities—as well as the transformative possibilities—between white feminist and African American cultural formations.
Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.
Buffalo Girls
by Larry McMurtry
Recommended by a dear friend in the vintage/antique world.
Buffalo Girls is a 1990 novel written about Calamity Jane. It is written in the novel prose style mixed with a series of letters from Calamity Jane to her daughter. In her letters, Calamity describes herself as being a drunken hellraiser but never an outlaw. Her letters also describe her larger-than-life cohorts.
McMurtry depicts gritty events and relationships in the life of fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, prostitutes, and Indians as the Wild West fades away, changing their way of life. The characters struggle, and many fail, to adapt to the settling of the West. In an effort to adapt and relive the Wild West, many of the characters, along with Calamity Jane, resort to performing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. They exploit and are exploited by their frontier lifestyle, before being defeated by it in the end.
Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration
by Penny Sparke
My tail wags for interior design! Checkout the historical Elsie de Wolfe.
Elsie de Wolfe is a twentieth-century legend and is the mother of modern interior decoration. Her name is familiar to many who practice the art of interior design or who are linked to the fashionable world of tastemaking. She provided appropriate settings for the new rich in the first half of the twentieth century and in the process helped to shape our understanding of what we have come to know as the modern domestic interior. Through the measured re-examination of known materials as well as the review of history-clarifying documents that have been overlooked or underused by previous de Wolfe enthusiasts, Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration provides the foundation of a renewed interest in her groundbreaking career, her philosophy of design, and her belief that an atmosphere of beauty could cure a world of ills. This large format, profusely illustrated book covers twenty-nine projects (including Villa Trianon, The Colony Club, Anne Vanderbilt, Anne Morgan, the Duchess of Windsor, and J. Ogden Armour, to name a few) and concludes with a timeline of her works. Written by English decorative arts scholar Penny Sparke and edited by New York Times contributor Mitchell Owens, Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration presents the most in-depth look ever into the design aesthetic of this early twentieth-century master decorator.
