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192 pages : illustrations (some black and white) ; 29 cm.
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English
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Covering a wide range of occasions from anniversaries and seasonal highlights to children's cards and invitations, this fabulous collection features the finest work from Sarah Beaman's two previous books, as well as a range of new and exclusive designs. Packed with creative techniques, step-by-step pictures, and detailed instructions, it outlines every aspect of the process from hand-stitching and beading edges to pressing and attaching flowers.
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256 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Bursting with fabulous ideas and illustrated with 1100 stunning colour photographs, this comprehensive and practical book is the ultimate guide to card-making, and offers crafters the chance to create truly inspiring cards that will make a lasting impression.
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viii, 310 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"For most of us, overwork is the new normal and rest is an afterthought. In our busy lives, rest is defined as the absence of work: late-night TV binges, hours spent trawling the internet, something to do once we've finished everything else on our to-do lists. But dismissing rest stifles our ability to think creatively and truly recharge. In Rest, Silicon Valley consultant Alex Pang argues that we can be more successful in all areas of our lives by...
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Stick Cat volume 2
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219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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While admiring the view of the city from his friend Edith's apartment, Stick Cat notices that Hazel, the bagel maker, is in danger across the alley, and he devises a plan to rescue her.
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xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Currey explores the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obligations, in order to create their creations; the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made -- and continue to make...
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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xxix, 333 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Combining motivational observations with practical question-and-answer entries, an empowering guide to personal success draws on the ideas of popular self-help concepts to address such topics as personal goals, pragmatism and courage.
10) Killer of sheep
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2 videodiscs (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in the Watts community in Los Angeles, a sensitive African American man finds himself numbed by his work in a slaughterhouse.
11) Thunderbirds
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tracy Island not only houses Jeff Tracy and his five sons, but also serves as headquarters for the top-secret International Rescue organization. A criminal mastermind known only as "The Hood" manages to get past the island's security measures and trys to take over International Rescue. His goal is to steal the five most advanced rescue vehicles and use them for his own agenda. With Jeff and his four eldest sons on a mission, there's only one person...
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When Falco encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately that there is something amiss. When she confesses that she is fleeing for her life, Falco offers to help her, and in doing so, he gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving stolen ingots, dangerous and dark political machinations, and most hazardous of all, one Helena Justina, a brash, indomitable senator's daughter connected to the very traitors...
13) Warburg in Rome
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362 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war's end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d'Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg's guide to a complicated Rome; while a charismatic young American Catholic priest, Monsignor Kevin Deane, seems equally committed to aiding Italian Jews. But the city is a labyrinth...
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x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
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vii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--
Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 523" and 529", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire. Cooke weaves together the real-life stories...
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111 pages : color illustrations, color portrait ; 28 cm
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English
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"This book celebrates the fascination with jewelry centered on Medieval, Renaissance and other worldly elements ... Twenty Five projects using popular icons and materials such as leather, crystal and chainmaille complete the collection. All projects incorporate easy to find materials incorporated into projects a beginner to an advanced jewelry maker would enjoy."--Provided by publisher.
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xxiii, 232 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as . . . doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process"--
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