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The Flame Alphabet
The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck... (read more)

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Running the Rift
Running the Rift
by Naomi Benaron
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Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he... (read more)

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Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
by Eric Weiner
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When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner, an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. Have you found your God yet? The thought of it nags him, and prods him and... (read more)

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The World We Found
The World We Found
by Thrity Umrigar
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The acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven returns with a breathtaking, skillfully wrought story of four women and the unbreakable ties they share. As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and... (read more)

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Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks & Techniques for Working with the World's Most Versatile Medium
Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks & Techniques for Working with the World's Most Versatile Medium
by Nancy Reyner
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Liberate Your Creativity with Acrylic Paints Acrylic Revolution is your essential, all-in-one guide for acrylic painting techniques and more. It features over 101 ways to break through the boundaries of conventional painting and re-define the creative... (read more)

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The Evening Hour
The Evening Hour
by Carter Sickels
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Most of the wealth in Dove Creek, West Virginia, is in the earth-in the coal seams that have provided generations with a way of life. Born and raised here, twenty-seven-year-old Cole Freeman has sidestepped work as a miner to become an aide in a nursing... (read more)

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Julia Cameron
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The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was... (read more)

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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles and Ted Orland
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"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that... (read more)

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Terry's Top Tips for Watercolour Artists
Terry's Top Tips for Watercolour Artists
by Terry Harrison
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Packed with tips for buying and using materials, mixing colors, creating texture, and correcting mistakes—as well as advice on painting skies, fields, trees, water, roofs, winter scenes, and much more—this generous collection demystifies... (read more)

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Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (97 Edition)
Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (97 Edition)
by Edward R. Tufte
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Tufte's (statistical evidence and information design, Yale U.) third book on displaying information that began with the now classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983). Whereas the first considered the display of numbers and the... (read more)

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Picture This :  How Pictures Work (00 Edition)
Picture This : How Pictures Work (00 Edition)
by Molly Bang
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Everyone knows that a picture tells a thousand words. But what about the elements that make up a picture? Using the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an example, Molly Bang uses boldly graphic artwork to explain how images--and their individual... (read more)

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Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing
Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing
by Lee Hammond
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Master the Essentials of Realistic Drawings With Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing, your art will spring to life From laughing children and frolicking tigers to fruit so vivid it makes your mouth water, you'll discover how to realistically draw your... (read more)

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Artists Handbook of Materials & Techniqu 5TH Edition
Artists Handbook of Materials & Techniqu 5TH Edition
by Ralph Mayer
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Since 1940, when it was originally published, The Artist's Handbook has become indispensable for thousands of practicing artists and art students. The book has remained continually in print through many editions and has sold more than a quarter of a... (read more)

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Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing
Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing
by Gary Colombo
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Rereading America remains the most widely adopted book of its kind because of its unique approach to the issue of cultural diversity. Unlike other multicultural composition readers that settle for representing the plurality of American voices and... (read more)

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The World of the Image (Longman Topics)
The World of the Image (Longman Topics)
by Trudy Smoke
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Everywhere we look in today’s world, images are pervasive; we are immersed in a world of images–and we are relying more and more on images to understand ourselves and our world.  This brief, focused reader explores our reliance on... (read more)

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Painting Watercolors (First Steps)
Painting Watercolors (First Steps)
by Cathy Johnson
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Make your first steps in watercolor fun and rewarding Watercolor's vivid colors and fresh, direct brush strokes make it the most exciting way to paint. But, you think, Learning to paint must be hard and frustrating. Not with Cathy Johnson as your teacher... (read more)

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Going Postal
Going Postal
by Martha Cooper
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Postal stickers have long been a preferred substrate used by street artists to get up. Of course, because stickers from the US Postal Service, UPS, DHL and FEDEX are so readily available, many of these stickers get lost in the fray. That’s where... (read more)

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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
by Hayden Herrera
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-448) and index.... (read more)

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Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information
by Edward R Tufte
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This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific... (read more)

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Modern Art
Modern Art
by Sam Hunter
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A richly illustrated survey of modern European and American painting, sculpture, architecture, and conceptual art. Third edition.... (read more)

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