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How to Paint Water in Watercolour

Joe Francis Dowden - Search Press
Format: Paperback

Joe Dowden's best-selling Watercolour Tips & Techniques: Painting Water relaunched, expanded and improved. A renowned expert at painting water, Joe uses the natural translucence of watercolor to capture its beauty. Teaching readers to paint what they see, he shares his simple but painstaking...
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Grace Kelly: Hollywood Dream Girl

JAY JORGENSEN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The definitive visual biography of Grace Kelly's unforgettable Hollywood career, chronicled in 400 extraordinary black-and white and color photographs, including many never-before-seen."Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder...
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Ohio in Photographs: A Portrait of the Buckeye State

Ian Adams - Ohio University Press
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...
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory

Andrew Lichtenstein - West Virginia University Press
Format: Paperback

From Wounded Knee to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and from the Upper Big Branch mine disaster to the Trail of Tears, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered presents photographs of significant sites from US history, posing unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the nation's...
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Loving Amy: A Mother's Story

Janis Winehouse - Thomas Dunne Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

"Amy was one of those rare people who made an impact . . . She was a bundle of emotions, at times adorable and at times unbearable. . . . Amy's passing did not follow a clear line. It was jumbled, and her life was unfinished -- not life's natural order at all. She left no answers,...
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Never Lose Sight

Chris Tomlin
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Often called Americas Worship Leader, Chris Tomlin returns with his new album, NEVER LOSE SIGHT. As the songwriter behind the worship favorites How Great Is Our God, Our God, and Whom Shall I Fear, Chris songs lead people to the heart of Jesus and into a deeper worship...
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Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

Barney Hoskyns - Da Capo, 2016.
Format: Print book

When musicians in the New York City folk scene of the 1960s tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country." They headed for Woodstock - not to the site of the legendary music festival of 1969, but to Woodstock itself and to nearby Bearsville, where manager...
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Upcycling: 20 Creative Projects Made from Reclaimed Materials

Max McMurdo - Jacqui Small
Format: Print book

Ever thought about transforming that rusty old item in the garage into something awesome to impress your dinner guests, or fancied refurbishing the random old dining chair in the shed but don't have the tools or knowhow?In Upcycling Max McMurdo teaches you how to discover inner design...
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The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint

Jamie Camplin - Getty Publications
Format: Hardcover

"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist,...
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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson

Matt Richards - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most influential music...
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