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The Complete Guide to Drawing for Beginners: 21 Step-by-Step Lessons - Over 450 illustrations!

Yoshiko Ogura - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback

An easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive beginner's guide to drawing .In The Complete Guide to Drawing for Beginners, experienced art instructor Yoshiko Ogura explains the basics of pencil drawing through a series of lessons that provide insights on artistic composition, simulating highlights...
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Road to Perdition (Full Screen Edition) (2002)

Sam Mendes - Dreamworks Video
Format: DVD

In Road to Perdition, Tom Hanks plays a hit man who finds his heart. Michael Sullivan (Hanks) is the right-hand man of crime boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), but when Sullivan's son accidentally witnesses one of his hits, he must choose between his crime family and his real one. The movie...
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Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself

Chloe Angyal - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover

Every day, in dance studios all across America, millions of little girls line up at the barre and take ballet class. Their time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, the value of their bodies and minds, and their place in the world both in and outside...
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Artist's Guide to Drawing World Wildlife: Essential Step-by-Step Lessons for Beginners

J.C. Amberlyn - Monacelli Studio
Format: Paperback

In her 9th book, best-selling author J.C. Amberlyn takes readers of all ages who aspire to draw or already love to draw wild animals step by step through the entire process of creating drawings of animals from around the world with her easy-to-use drawing method. Artist's Guide to World...
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Your Artist's Brain: Use the right side of your brain to draw and paint what you see - not what you think you see

Carl Purcell - North Light Books

Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expressionImproving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see - not what you think you see.Expert art instructor...
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Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead

Bill Kreutzmann - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound...
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Simple Disney Songs: The Easiest Easy Piano Songs

Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(Easy Piano Songbook) . Play 50 favorite Disney songs in the easiest of arrangements! Enjoy these classic and contemporary selections presented simply, with lyrics. Songs include: Almost There * The Bare Necessities * I've Got a Dream * If I Didn't Have You * Just Around the Riverbend...
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Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love: How Tricksters Through History Have Changed the World

Shepherd Siegel PhD - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback

Comedian Richard Pryor narrated the George Floyd murder in 1979, forty years before it occurred. A murder no one is laughing about. Yet when Pryor tells the story in very raw terms, and with his comic talent, the audience laughs. As a time-traveling trickster, Pryor is preparing the audience,...
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