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"Whether it's the curiosity that blossoms after we listen to our favorite band's newest record, or the sheer admiration we feel after watching a knockout performance, many of us have experienced art so pure-so innovative-that we can't help but wonder afterwards: "How did they do that?" And yet, few of us are in a position to be able to ask those memorable legends where their inspiration comes from and how they translated it into something fresh and...
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"Corinna Sargood, who illustrated Patience Gray’s Honey from a Weed, spends several months each year in Mexico with her partner, Richard, a furniture maker. They live a simple life, renting a home in the Village in the Valley, south of Mexico City, a life she began in her fifties. When Corinna was fifty, she first travelled to Mexico, with Richard, her partner of a few months standing. She had a commission to illustrate a book by the novelist Angela...
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"Dos hombres. Un pa̕s. Y un montón de whisky. Como buenas estrellas de la serie Outlander, Sam y Graham destilan Escocia por los cuatro costados en este épico viaje por carretera por su tierra natal, donde descubren que la realidad supera con creces la ficción. Tierra de clanes es la historia de un apasionante viaje. Armados con su fiel autocaravana y una sólida amistad, estos dos escoceses se embarcan en la aventura de su vida para explorar...
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"Todos soñamos con triunfar, con lograr lo que nos proponemos. No importa la edad: siempre pensamos en esas versión mejorada de nosotros mismos que queremos ser. En [este libro], verás que sí es posible lograrlo, con fe, sin miedo y con muchos consejos. En estas páginas descubrirás los secretos que Luz María ha recogido durante más de 30 años de carrera para que tú también puedas convertirte en la mujer-- o el hombre-- de tus sueños."--Amazon.com.
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"Do you want to visit Italy, or do you want to experience Italy?" Those enticing words were the lure that emboldened Carole Bumpus and her husband to take a month-long trip to Italy one memorable September--a trip during which they discovered a land of unforgettable characters, sumptuous traditional foods, and sublime beauty.
4248) After Woodstock: the true story of a Belgian movie, an Israeli wedding, & a Manhattan breakdown
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During the summer of 69, Elliot Tiber helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. But some of the best and most significant events of Tiber s life did not happen until After Woodstock. In this third volume of his memoirs, following the critically acclaimed Palm Trees on the Hudson and his breakout bestseller Taking Woodstock, Tiber chronicles his hilarious, madcap, and often heartbreaking adventures...
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Challenged by a cocky Australian in Woolloomooloo, veteran globe trotter Phoebe Smith sets out to prove that the extreme camping experiences available in the UK could rival anything found elsewhere in the world. In this sometimes scary, frequently funny and intriguing journey around the country, Phoebe attempts to discover and conquer its wildest places.
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"Italian cities have been points of reference for much of architect Peter Wilson's professional life and the many reasons for visiting the country have long presented themselves as not just the easy list - holidays, food, architecture and culture - but as the prompt for a more ingrained understanding of Italy's wider architectural habitat and cultural mythology. This book, first published by the AA School in 2016, appears in the form of a latter-day...
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"Professional runner Rickey Gates documents his epic experience of running 3,700 miles across the entire continental United States with just a small backpack and an anthropologist's curiosity to discover the divided America in which we live. Rickey shares first-person essays and roughly 200 photographs of the fascinating (and ordinary) characters he met and the breathtaking (and ugly) things he saw and endured, delivering a patchwork portrait of America...
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Dr. Ole Alcumbrac owns White Mountain Animal Hospital, a full-service animal clinic in Pinetop, Arizona, that cares for everything from cats and dogs to exotics and large animals. But this self-described "wild man" isn't your typical veterinarian, and it's his work outside of the clinic that excites him most.
Pronghorn problems: "Doc Ole treats bears, pigs and adopts a puppy."--
Tundra, teeth, and talons: "A jaguar gets a double root canal; a cat's...
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"PO PYPCIACH NA JĘZYKU, NIEDORAJDZIE I ZERZE ZAHAMOWAŃ CZAS NA MROCZNEGO EROSA. O PYPCIACH W JĘZYKU POLITYKI. Powiedzmy to sobie od razu, żeby nie było niedomówień: nie jestem ani specjalistą od języka polityki, ani tym bardziej jego miłośnikiem. Język ten jednak ma pewną cechę wspólną z piosenkami disco-polo, którym w dużej części poświęciłem poprzednią książkę. Otóż ani jednego, ani drugiego nie da się nie słyszeć....
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"Prawie nikt nie wyjeżdża z Des Moines w stanie Iowa. Jednak Bill Bryson wyjechał i po dziesiciu latach spdzonych w Anglii postanowił wybrać si do domu, który okazuje si dla niego... obcym krajem. W leciwym chevrolecie chevette Bryson pokonał prawie 14 000 mil na terenie trzydziestu ośmiu stanów, aby sporzdzić ten zabawny i przenikliwy raport na temat kondycji małomiasteczkowej Ameryki. Od głbokiego Południa po Dziki Zachód, od miejsca...
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Babe Ruth, incredible ballplayer. You might know that he was widely considered baseball's greatest hitter. But what about his feat of pitching to himself and blasting 25 straight home runs? Or his knack for removing kids' spleens and kidneys despite not having any medical training? You're about to be treated to the Lieographical aspects of Babe Ruth's life, in this funny, lighthearted, "all that didn't happen" take on this larger than life man. The...
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"Soap star Don Diamont's most interesting storyline to date is being the real-life father and ringleader of his seven rambunctious boys. Don Diamont's "My seven sons and how we raised each other" is a fatherhood book for today's modern, blended family ; a dude book that doesn't shy away from an emotional body slam ; and, a giftable dad book that also functions as a love song to a magnificent mom. With humor and compassion, Don takes the readers on...
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The premise of the book is Emily's controversial, extreme method of saving for a house deposit - the so-called "pocket money savings plan". The strategy was the subject of a column in 2016 on The Age and Sydney Morning Herald websites, which sparked a media storm. It ranks as one of the most read columns of the year for Domain and Fairfax more broadly. The column, 'I am 33 and my parents give me pocket money' started a national debate around Gen Y...
4260) Sentimental reflections: Series twenty, Edition one,America's heritage in story, scenery & song
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As we are and as we were. This quarterly video magazine highlights stories about various aspects of American life. Every episode features unique places, people, and music, all selected to foster a feeling of nostalgia toward the parts of life often forgotten. Our Cover Story examines the making of the signs and rhymes of Burma Shave. It's a fun look back at the rhyming signs and how it became one of Sentimental Productions' favorite projects. Scenic...
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