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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Eric Klinenberg - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country...
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If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: Relating to and Communicating with Others

Alan Alda - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor."Invaluable."...
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Beauty And The Beast

Various Artists - ‎Walt Disney Records
Format: Audio CD

Disneys "Beauty and the Beast" is a live-action re-telling of the animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs. Includes...
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The Joy of Acrylic Painting: Expressive Painting Techniques for Beginners

Annie OBrien Gonzales - North Light Books
Format: Paperback

Now is the time to pursue creative fulfillment! Annie OBrien Gonzales felt a passion for art from an early age. But not until 30 years later--after raising a family and working "a real job"--did she get serious about painting. Along the way, she experienced the pleasures and the pitfalls...
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'We Pulled Together . . .and Won!'

Deb Mulvey - Reiman Publications; Presumed 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover

Personal memories of World War II
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Lost Cleveland

Laura DeMarco - Pavilion
Format: Hardcover

Organized chronologically, starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, this book features much-loved Cleveland institutions that have been consigned to history. Losses include: City Hall, Diebolt Brewing Co., Luna Park, Sheriff Street Market, Hotel Winton, League Park,...
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The Little Book of Life Hacks: How to Make Your Life Happier, Healthier, and More Beautiful

Yumi Sakugawa - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Author, illustrator and comic book artist Yumi Sakugawa shares a wide range of useful and unexpected tips for looking and feeling better, streamlining and improving your home life, and creating fun and artsy DIY projects that can brighten your living space. Inspired by her popular "Secret...
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Cleveland's Vanishing Sacred Architecture

Barry K Herman - Arcadia
Format: Book

As in other cities, Cleveland has developed through the evolution of its European ethnic neighborhoods and their various religions. Many of these neighborhoods built their own churches, which became the focus of community development and unity. For decades, these churches thrived, but the new millennium...
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Learn to Play the Piano and Keyboard: A Step-by-step-guide

Nick Freeth - Parragon
Format: Book

No previous musical knowledge necessary - this book contains everything you need to start playing. Expert advice to help you select the piano or keyboard that's right for you. Shows how the keys are fingered, & helps you develop your manual dexterity & coordination. Explains...
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Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

Ann Dumas - Royal Academy of Arts,
Format: Print book

"I perhaps owe it to flowers that I have become a painter." - Claude Monet While depictions of gardens are found throughout history, the impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their color and form rather than using them as a background....
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On-Camera Flash: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography

Neil van Niekerk - Amherst Media
Format: Paperback

Photographers are always looking for perfect light. Unfortunately, the quality of available light, and the situations in which photos are created, are rarely perfect. This is especially true when photographing weddings or portraits on location. So while finding beautiful existing light...
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Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Mokuhanga

April Vollmer - Watson-Guptill
Format: Hardcover

An inspirational how-to course on Japanese woodblock printings history and techniques, with guidance on materials and studio practices, step-by-step demonstrations, and examples of finished works by modern masters of the medium as well as historic pieces. A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of mokuhanga...
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Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen

Bill Bentley - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

In December 2015, the Smithsonian called on rock and roll lovers around the world to collect photos and stories of their favorite moments in music. Fans dug through attics, basements, closets, shoeboxes, digital cameras, and photo albums to post great rock shots to rockandroll.si.edu....
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The Heart of a Boy: Celebrating the Strength and Spirit of Boyhood

Kate T. Parker - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

In her international bestseller Strong Is the New Pretty (with 329,000 copies in print) , the photographer Kate T. Parker changed the way we see girls by showing us their truest selves - fearless, messy, wild, stubborn, proud. Now it's time to talk about our boys. Prompted by #metoo,...
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves

Kate T Parker - Workman
Format: Print book

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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Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair

DAISY GOODWIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of the Masterpiece presentation of Victoria, created and written by Daisy Goodwin -- the highest-rated PBS drama in twenty years, second only to Downton Abbey. But what happened after the Queen married her handsome prince?...
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Digital Photography For Dummies

Julie Adair King - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Your fun guide to digital photography with any device Whether you're shooting with an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera, a smartphone or tablet, a high-priced contraption, or one of those new-fangled action cameras, it's possible to take your digital photos from good to great by applying...
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National Geographic Spectacle: Rare and Astonishing Photographs

Mark Thiessen - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite photo collection showcasing awe-inducing moments from around the world, including the aurora borealis, cities made of neon lights, a great wildebeest migration, a contortionist on display--and more.In life, there are certain sights that are as beautiful as they are unforgettable--from...
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Artist's painting techniques

Dk Publishing. - DK
Format: Hardcover

Artist's Painting Techniques is your practical guide to learning how to bring out your inner artist with a wide range of painting styles, whether you want to learn how to use acrylics, watercolors, or oil paints.With progression in mind, this master class will teach you the basic...
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Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900

Gabriel P. Weisberg - Harry N Abrams Inc
Format: Hardcover

Editorial Reviews From Library Journal The literature on Art Nouveau is extensive but little mention has been made of the man who created the name, Siegfried Bing, a leading figure in fin de siecle decorative arts and a moving force in the style that swept through Western Europe and the United...
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Photoshop Elements 2019 For Dummies

Barbara Obermeier - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Turn blah photos into dazzling imagesPhotoshop Elements offers enough of the power you'll find in full Photoshop to make both basic and artistic edits to your photos. Photoshop Elements 2019 For Dummies helps you learn how to use Photoshop Elements to take your shots to stunning...
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101 More Mixed Media Techniques: An exploration of the versatile world of mixed media art

Cherril Doty - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Print book

Explore a diverse array of adventurous mixed media art techniques with 101 More Mixed Media Techniques.Whether you are an experienced artist or just starting out, you'll discover new, approachable concepts for creating and embellishing your own mixed media art. Inside this book, you'll...
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Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast

JEFF FAGER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A history of 60 Minutes - the iconic American TV news broadcast - going behind the scenes of the most famous breakthrough stories of its remarkable fifty-year run to reveal the secrets of the program's success.Fifty Years of 60 Minutes tells the inside story of the legendary...
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Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

Marc Myers - Grove Press
Format: Print book

Every great song has a story that needs to be told. In Anatomy of a Song, based on the ongoing Wall Street Journal column, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music through forty-five transformative songs and oral-history interviews with the artists who created...
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