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Expressive Flower Painting: Simple Mixed Media Techniques for Bold Beautiful Blooms
LYNN WHIPPLE · Quarry Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Let your creativity bloom with Expressive Flower Painting!Flowers are one of the most common and beloved subjects for artists. And for new artists, it's almost always one of the first things someone tries to paint--center, petals, stem, voila! The painting exercises and the process shown... |
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The Sullivan Street Bakery Cookbook
JIM LAHEY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A clear, illustrated guide to making sourdough and the Italian-inspired café dishes from one of Manhattan's best bakeries.Ten years ago, Jim Lahey's no-knead recipes in My Bread caused a home-baking renaissance. In this long-awaited sequel, we turn to the Sullivan Street Bakery, which... |
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Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done
Cary Tennis · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done. Untold millions of writing projects - begun with hope... |
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Counting Down the Beatles: Their 100 Finest Songs
Jim Beviglia · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
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The Beatles loom large over the musical landscape even now that nearly a half-century has passed since the four men from Liverpool played their last notes together. While the story of their stunning rise and brief but brilliant time together on top of the pop music world is undoubtedly... |
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The Fussy Cut Sampler: 48 Quilt Blocks from Your Favorite Fabrics
Nichole Ramirez · Lucky Spool Media
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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If you are like authors Nichole and Elisabeth, your favorite part of quilting is fussy cutting - and it usually involves figuring out how to enhance an interesting quilt block by framing a favorite element in your most-loved fabric! Let fussy cutting become more than just showing a single... |
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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
SUSAN WISE BAUER · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child.Our K-12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn't a good fit for all -- or even most -- students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes... |
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Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent: A Fourteenth-century Princess and Her World
Anthony Goodman · Boydell Press
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
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Joan Plantagenet (1328 - 1385) , acclaimed in her youth as the "Fair Maid of Kent," became notorious for making both a clandestine and a bigamous marriage in her teens and, in her thirties, a scandalous marriage to her kinsman, Edward III's son and heir, Edward of Woodstock,... |
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Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time
RAY PADGETT · Sterling
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger. Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's "All... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
REBECCA SKLOOT · BROADWAY BOOKS
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Soon to be an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important... |
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Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Jonathan White · Trinity University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind... |
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Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001
Michael Tomasky · Times Books
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth centuryBill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most... |
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The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age
Andrew O'Hagan · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A trio of reported essays exploring identity and the InternetThe slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL -- "in real life" -- now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online... |
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Protest Knits: Got needles? Get knitting
Geraldine Warner · Herbert Press
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Knitting and handicrafts have a long history in protesting. The pussy hat project taking protests by storm has been particularly successful, but it joins a long tradition of crafty activism. In Canada, there's the Revolutionary Knitting Circle, which first made headlines for their protest... |
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