Bev Brazelton

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression

Give books new life filled with creative expression

Turn old books into personalized works of art with Altered Books Workshop. Altered books bring together a variety of mixed media and papercrafting techniques including collage, journaling, rubber stamping, embellishing and scrapbooking. The creative possibilities are endless - go where your imagination takes you!

Through 18 step-by-step demonstrations and 65 variation ideas, Bev Brazelton teaches you basic, intermediate and creative techniques for crafting unique altered books. You'll find helpful tips as you're guided through the process of altering pages along with captivating embellishment ideas such as adding doors and drawers to your altered books.

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Altered Books Workshop

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Clifton Fadiman

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Little Brown Book of Anecdotes

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Robert Greenman

Words That Make a Difference and How to Use Them in a Masterly Way

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Howard Stern

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Howard Stern's first book in over twenty years contains many interviews with his guests throughout the years.

Howard Stern Comes Again

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James Knowlson

The Life of Samuel Beckett

The Award-Winning Biography of Twentieth-Century Literature's Enigmatic Genius. Winner of the George Freedley Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Whitbread, Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, the renowned yet reclusive master of twentieth-century literature.

Damned to Fame

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David Trottier

A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

The "Screenwriter's Bible" is one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold 150,000 copies in its ten-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover -- six books in one! Features: How to Write a Screenplay -- a concise course on screenwriting basics; Correct Format for Screenplays and Teleplays -- a style guide to the latest in industry-accepted formats; Steps to a Stunning Script -- a step-by-step guide to the screenwriting process from nascent idea through revisions; Writing Your Breakthrough Spec Script -- the keys to a marketable script; How to Sell Your Script -- marketing and sales strategies and information about today's marketplaces; Resources -- lists of industry contacts and useful screenwriting tools and services. This new edition offers expanded coverage of dialogue writing and character development, the latest in proper screenplay format, a new section on jumpstarting your career, new advice on creating and delivering pitches, more new successful writing tips and pointers, new and revised writing exercises, updated film examples, and an expanded index.

The Screenwriter's Bible

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One of the most popular and useful books on screenwriting, now greatly expanded and completely updated. This edition includes a list of resources and contains approximately 100 new entries.

Harry Katz

Frank Ceresi

Phil Michel

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Treasures from the Library of Congress

Foreword by George F. Will With a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress A lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress. “One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. … A book like this, so rich and deep in material. … brings baseball history to multifaceted life and reminds us that baseball is the sport that celebrates its history more than any other. … This book itself is a form of time-traveling—a pleasurable, often surprising and aesthetic trip.”—San Diego Union-Tribune Baseball, the sport that helped reunify the country in the years after the Civil War, remains the National Pastime. The Library of Congress houses the world's largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Now Baseball Americana presents the best of the best from that treasure trove. From baseball's biggest stars to street urchins, from its most newsworthy stories to sandlot and Little League games, the book examines baseball's hardscrabble origins, rich cultural heritage, and uniquely American character. The more than 350 fabulous illustrations—many never before published—featured first-generation, vintage photographic and chromolithographic baseball cards; photographs of famous players and ballparks; and newspaper clippings, cartoons, New Deal photographs, and baseball advertisements. Packed with images that will surprise and thrill even the most expert collector, Baseball Americana is a gift for every baseball fan.

Baseball Americana

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Ross W. Duffin

Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare's Songbook

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Joe Marten

Weird and Wonderful Wildlife

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Joseph Kerman

Gary Tomlinson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Widely praised by instructors for its captivating presentation of musical concepts, this landmark music-appreciation text continues to help transform students into active, insightful listeners. Authors Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlinson, two of America’s leading musicologists and music educators, are both known as inspirational and wide-ranging teachers. Their diverse experience, lively writing style, and clear explanations of musical concepts make music approachable and engaging for students in the introductory course. Their text continually offers the highest quality recordings, the clearest Listening Charts, and the richest cultural contexts to inform students’ listening. Now the sixth edition ofListenextends its proven approach into the multimedia environment with new music, new media, and a new look, making it easier than ever to discover thebestway to listen.

Listen

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D. Kern Holoman

A musical discovery

Masterworks

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Gino Castaldo

Music Box

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Robert Hendrickson

Definitions and origins of more than 12,500 words and expressions

This updated and expanded edition, contains definitions and origins of more than 12,500 words and expressions, as well as necdotes and information on the development of a wide range of words, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign language expressions, and phrases from literature.

Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

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Robert Andrews

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Entertaining and easy to use, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations brings together more than 18,000 fresh and intriguing remarks, witticisms, judgments, and observations on 1,500 alphabetically arranged subjects. More than 11,000 of these quotations have never before appeared in a quotation book. Full of the world's most apt sentences and less familiar quotations from Shakespeare to Malcolm X, from Lenin to Salman Rushdie, from Emily Dickinson to Camille Paglia, here is the best new large quotation book in decades--and the liveliest one available.

These funny, profound, touching, provocative, and memorable quotations, chosen not for their familiarity but for their quality and their relevance, cover subjects from adolescence and adoption to yuppies and zoos. Each quotation has a detailed, accurate citation. Read:

* Henry Kissinger and Desmond Tutu on leadership;

* John F. Kennedy and Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the press;

* Tallulah Bankhead and Andrea Dworkin on sex;

*Marlon Brando and Paul Gauguin on obesity;

* Emerson, Wilde, and Twain on just about anything.

The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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Florence Kahn

Authentic and Delicious Jewish Recipes

Yiddish Cuisine

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Richard Walters

Soprano Book/Online Audio

(Vocal Collection). The world's most trusted source for great theatre literature for singing actors. The book features nearly 50 authentic editions of each song in the original keys. The songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type and are culled from a wide selection of classic and contemporary shows. This book also includes access codes to online recordings of piano accompaniments for each piece. The audio is available for download or streaming. Contents: ALLEGRO: Come Home * BABES IN ARMS: My Funny Valentine, Where or When * THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE: Falling in Love with Love * CAMELOT: I Loved You Once in Silence, The Simple Joys of Maidenhood * CAROUSEL: If I Loved You, Mister Snow, What's the Use of Wond'rin', You'll Never Walk Alone * CELEBRATION: 66 Under the Tree * CINDERELLA: Ten Minutes Ago * THE FANTASTICKS: Much More * FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: Far from the Home I Love * FLOWER DRUM SONG: 84 Love, Look Away * FOLLIES: One More Kiss * A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM: That'll Show Him * HAPPY END: Surabaya Johnny * THE KING AND I: Hello, Young Lovers, My Lord and Master, Something Wonderful * KISS ME, KATE: So in Love * LADY IN THE DARK: My Ship, The Saga of Jenny * ME AND JULIET: No Other Love * MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: Not a Day Goes By * THE MOST HAPPY FELLA: Somebody, Somewhere * THE MUSIC MAN: Goodnight, My Someone, My White Knight, Till There Was You * MY FAIR LADY: I Could Have Danced All Night, Show Me * OKLAHOMA!: Many a New Day, Out of My Dreams * ON YOUR TOES: Glad to Be Unhappy * 110 IN THE SHADE: Old Maid * PORGY AND BESS: Summertime * ROBERTA: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * SHOW BOAT: Bill, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man * THE SOUND OF MUSIC: Climb Ev'ry Mountain * STREET SCENE: Somehow I Never Could Believe, What Good Would the Moon Be? * SWEENEY TODD: Green Finch and Linnet Bird * THE THREEPENNY OPERA: Barbara Song, Pirate Jenny, Solomon Song * TWO BY TWO: The Golden Ram

Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology - Volume 1

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Barbara Ann Kipfer

A classic reference book that has been used by millions all over the world, Roget’s International Thesaurus is the product of more than a century and a half of continual expansion, reorganization, and improvement. Today this book is not only the most time-tested and bestselling thesaurus ever, but, newly revised, it is also the most up-to-date and comprehensive reflection of the English language as it is currently used. The revolutionary achievement of Dr. Peter Mark Roget’s first edition in 1852 was the development of a brand-new principle: the arrangement of words and phrases according to their meanings. Dr. Roget’s system brings together in one place all the terms associated with a single thought or concept; it allows a wide-ranging survey of language within a book of relatively modest size, without the space-consuming repetitions that so severely limit the scope of thesauruses arranged in a dictionary format with A-to-Z entries. This brilliant organization makes Roget’s International Thesaurus both the most efficient word finder and a cutting-edge aid in stimulating thought, organizing ideas, and writing and speaking more clearly and effectively. This revised and updated seventh edition features thousands of new words and phrases, including the newest slang words and expressions that color and inform everyday language. At the same time, it retains all the hallmarks that have made Roget’s International Thesaurus the most popular word reference book next to the dictionary.

Roget's International Thesaurus, 7th Edition

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Paul Dickson

The Authoritative Topic-by-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from All Walks of Life

Slang

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Joseph Epstein

The Yale Book of Quotations

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Robert Byrne

Between the covers of this compilation are quips, quotes, wit, and wisdom from the whole world and all time. Once published in four volumes, these unforgettable lines can now be found in one big book, enhanced by charming line illustrations. The great names included range from Goethe and Churchill to Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker, and they offer a seemingly limitless trove of one-liners, retorts, definitions, jokes, and last words. From Oscar Wilde’s “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” to Pablo Picasso’s “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it,” every quote is illuminating.

The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

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David Olsen

1200 Essential Words Every Educated Person Should Be Able to Use and Define

Lots of people need a quick and authoritative way to identify and define the most troublesome common words. The usual approach- stalling for time until you can grasp the context of what the person has just said-has its limits. If only there were a list, not of every word (after all, reading dictionaries is no one's idea of fun) but of the right words, the ones that are used frequently but don't quite register when you come across them. The Words You Should Know features straightforward, succinct definitions and sentence examples of over 1200 tough-but-common words. It's the kind of book that can get you out of a jam, improve your performance at school, and help advance your career. And that's no hyperbole, rigmarole, or embellishment.

The Words You Should Know

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