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A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder: Vocal Selections

Steven Lutvak · Hal Leonard Corp
Pages: 126
Format: Musical score

(Vocal Selections) . The 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical! Our vocal selections folio includes: Better with a Man * Foolish to Think * I Don't Know What I'd Do Without You * I Don't Understand the Poor * I've Decided to Marry You * Inside Out * Lady Hyacinth Abroad...
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Wipe Out & 7 Other Fun Songs: Drum Play-Along Volume 36

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard; Pap/Com edition

Drum Play-Along. Play your favorite songs quickly and easily with the Drum Play-Along Series . Just follow the drum notation, listen to the CD to hear how the drums should sound, then play along using the separate backing tracks. The lyrics are also included for quick reference. The audio...
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The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus

Linda Simon · Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

Step right up! and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earththe Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossiblea place of myth and romance,...
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First 50 Classical Pieces You Should Play on the Piano

Hal Leonard Corp. (Creator) · Hal Leonard

(Easy Piano Songbook) . A great collection of 50 must-know classics for all pianists, including: Arabesque, Op. 100, No. 2 (Burgmuller) * Ave Maria (Schubert) * Can Can (Offenbach) * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Clair de Lune (Debussy) * Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) * Fur Elise...
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A Woman's Shed

Gill Heriz · CICO Books
Format: Hardcover

Why should men have all the sheds? Every woman deserves a shed of her own, somewhere to retreat to for some quiet time, to create or grow, to write or paint, or just to contemplate the view. Gill Heriz has interviewed over 80 different women, and Nicolette Hallett has photographed their...
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Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture

Donna Gustafson · Prestel
Format: Hardcover

This survey of historical and modern portraiture presents a fundamentally new and exciting exploration of how people view themselves, their personal relationships, and their tribes. Portraits--single, double, and group--are the focus of this fascinating volume. Encompassing work from the 18th...
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish

Linda Przybyszewski · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 347
Format: Hardcover

As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need...
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Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Juliet Wilson-Bareau · Yale University Press 2014.
Pages: 264

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings, and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas, and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist's oeuvre, and that passion inspired him to assemble...
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1000 Dog Portraits: From the People Who Love Them

Robynne Raye · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks." - Roger A. Caras, Animal Welfare Activist1000 Dog Portraits is a compilation of quirky, fun, fanatical illustrations, paintings, collages and drawings from designers...
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