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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves

Kate T. Parker · Workman Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls...
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One on One - The Best Monologues for Mature Actors

Stephen Fife · Applause Theatre & Cinema
Format: Print book

Applause Acting Series. While contemporary American culture may be fixated on youthful sex appeal, the truth is that the most complex and interesting characters in dramatic literature have been and still are those over 40 years old. Whether its Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Halie...
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Covert to Overt: The Under/Overground Art of Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey · Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

The seminal artists recent art and poster works, and his triumphant return to his street-art roots with murals, all in work never before published. Shepard Fairey rose out of the skateboarding scene, creating his Andre the Giant Has a Posse sticker campaign in the late 80s, and has since...
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The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age

Bill Dahl · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American popular music at large,...
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Instill and Inspire: The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art

GRACE STANISLAUS · UNIV OF PITTSBURGH Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

For over fifty years, John and Vivian Hewitt visited galleries, artists' studios, and exhibitions in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas, collecting hundreds of paintings, etchings, and sketches. The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African American Art represents...
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Envelope Poems

Emily Dickinson · New Directions/Christine Burgin
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Although a very prolific poet and arguably America s greatest Emily Dickinson (1830 1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great...
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Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream

Scotty Mccreery · Zondervan
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

It was just a simple singing competition that would be fun to audition for. Who knew what kind of doors it might open for a sixteen-year-old from Garner, North Carolina. Go Big or Go Home is the story of a kid with country songs in his soul. The special thing with Scotty McCreery, however,...
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Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye

Mary Morton · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94) has come to be recognized as one of the most dynamic and original artists of the impressionist movement in Paris. His paintings are favorites of museum-goers, and recent restoration of his work has revealed...
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The Lyrics: Since 1962

Bob Dylan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 961
Format: Print book

A beautiful, comprehensive volume of Dylan's lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day - with the songwriter's edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time.Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time, responsible for modern classics...
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The Art Nouveau Poster

Alain Weill · Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In July 1881, bill-posting became legal in Paris. The result was an explosion of creativity over three glorious decades recognised as the golden age of poster advertising, stirring together elements of new printing technology, William Morris' attempts to reconcile medieval artistry...
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Plot Perfect: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene

Paula Munier · Writer'S Digest
Pages: 281
Format: Paperback

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short...
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More Disney Songs For Classical Piano - The Phillip Keveren Series

Phillip Keveren · Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(Piano Solo Songbook). By popular demand, here are more Disney songs expertly arranged by Phillip Keveren within a classical context. Includes: Be Our Guest * Bella Notte * Feed the Birds * Heigh-Ho * Love Is a Song * Part of Your World * Ratatouille Main Theme * Some Day My Prince Will...
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Abandoned Places: A photographic exploration of more than 100 worlds we have left behind

Kieron Connolly · Amber Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Children's schoolbooks left open in a classroom, trees entangled in a rusting Ferris wheel, hulks of ships high and dry, miles from any water - seeing images like these we're bound to wonder: what happened here? Ranging from the urban aquarium of a flooded shopping mall to majestic...
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