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Lost Cincinnati

Jeff Suess - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book

Cincinnati earned its nickname of Queen City of the West with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth of professional baseball. Though many of these treasures have vanished, they left an indelible mark on the city. Revisit the favorite locales from...
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Mending With Kids: Patching, Painting, Sewing and Other Kid-Friendly Techniques

Nami Levy - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Kids are tough on their clothes ... Fortunately, they're creative too!. Mending With Kids shows you how to make kids' torn and stained clothes wearable again using a variety of simple sewing and decorating techniques that foster kids' participation. It includes helpful tips...
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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations

Peter Evans - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“I EITHER WRITE THE BOOK OR SELL THE JEWELS,” Ava Gardner told her coauthor, Peter Evans, “and I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.” So began the collaboration that led to this remarkably candid, wickedly sardonic memoir. Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s...
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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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John Mellencamp: American Paintings and Assemblages

John Mellencamp - ?Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Longtime music icon John Mellencamp's artistic expression has never been limited to song.The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive survey - curated by Mellencamp himself - of his large-scale oil portraits...
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Gauguin

Michel Hoog - Thames and Hudson
Format: Book

With 217 ill., 150 colour plates 4to pp. 332 ril tela, sovrac (cloth, DJ)
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Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of our Architectural Treasures

Richard Cahan - CityFiles Press
Format: Hardcover

Lost in America documents the life and death of America's architectural and historic treasures. The book is based on a remarkable archive created by the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) , a Works Progress Administration project that still documents the nation's most important...
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Painting Indiana III: Heritage of Place

Rachel Berenson Perry - Indiana University Press
Format: eBook

The work of T. C. Steele, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams, Otto Stark, and Richard Gruelle, known collectively as the Hoosier Group, established plein air ("in the open air") painting as a major art form in Indiana. The vitality of this style is represented in Painting Indiana...
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