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Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil

Ai Akikusa · Quarry
Pages: 109
Format: Paperback

Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil offers simple step-by-step drawing instructions that help you to learn how to draw your favorite animals. Adorable animals like rabbits, squirrels, deer, and pigs come alive with vibrant color and beautiful detail. Using colored pencils learn tips...
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The Magic Pattern Book: Sew 6 Patterns into 36 Different Styles!

Amy Barickman · Workman Publishing Company; Pap/Cdr edition
Format: Book

Home sewing is booming again. Inspired by sites like Etsy, Craftsy, Pinterest, and CreativeBug, by the continuing popularity of Project Runway and other fashion shows, and by the ever-growing DIY movement, there are more than 35 million sewists in America. Now, for this new generation that...
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Find It in Everything: Photographs by Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore · Little Brown & Co.
Format: Hardcover

Photographs by Drew Barrymore reveal hearts found in everyday situations."I have always loved hearts," writes acclaimed actress Drew Barrymore in the foreword to this heartwarming gift book. "The way that continuous line accomplishes the most extraordinary thing--it conveys...
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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition

David Thomson · Knopf; 6 edition
Format: Book

With more than 100 new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska, and Robin Wright, and completely updated,  here from David Thomson—“The greatest living writer on the movies” (John Banville, New Statesman);...
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History

R.G. Grant · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I - DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial...
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Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

Terence Dickinson · Firefly Books
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover

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Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir

Toni Braxton · It Books
Format: Hardcover

In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TVs reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes about her personal life decisions and their impact on her health, family and career.While Braxton appears to be living a gilded life—selling 60 million...
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Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith

Joe Perry · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and rolls greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in. —Slash Rocking Joe Perry rocks again! —Jimmy Page Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry...
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Greil Marcus · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
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Blanchester

Robyn Stone-Kraft · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

John and Joseph Blancett laid out the village of Blanchester in 1823. The community started as a central collection of log buildings among miles of farmland. Since that time, the village has grown, flourished, and suffered. The fire of 1895 destroyed most of the main commercial district...
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Ohio in Photographs: A Portrait of the Buckeye State

Ian Adams · Ohio University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

Showcasing the work of two of the state's leading landscape photographers, Ohio in Photographs presents a rich array of places and people, from serene hiking trails and Dayton's Huffman Prairie to shining downtown riverscapes and the riotous colors and figures of an unconventional Fourth...
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This Land: An American Portrait

Jack Spencer · University of Texas Press
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover

Jarred by the 9/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 "in hopes of making a few 'sketches' of America in order to gain some clarity on what it meant to be living in this nation at this moment in time." Across thirteen years, forty-eight states, and eighty thousand...
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The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History

Robin Givhan · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"It was a big deal when American fashion went to Versailles. Who better than Robin Givhan to tell this captivating story?" - Diane von FurstenbergOn November 28, 1973, the world's social elite gathered at the Palace of Versailles for an international fashion show. By the time...
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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

Patton Oswalt · Scribner
Pages: 222
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt...
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Star Wars FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Trilogy That Changed the Movies

Mark Clark · Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback

From the books and movies that inspired George Lucas to imagine the Star Wars universe, to early screenplay drafts that were never filmed, to short biographies of many people who made key contributions to the movies' success, Star Wars FAQ explores every aspect of the original Star...
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