"Most homeowners are uninformed and ill-prepared for big-ticket remodels. The knowledge they do have often comes from reality-TV home makeover shows that gloss over the ingredients essential to success. This book by a construction management pro gives homeowners increased confide...
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"The frontiers of the future, when the people of our over-polluted planet Earth voyage out to the stars to settle new worlds, to survive unknown and unpredictable hardships, and to make new human homes. Specifically, it is a story about Quakers, people who have grown up on a ship...
Daddy is the "Mystery Reader" at Tori's school today! And he's coming dressed as Miss Rita! Tori helps Daddy gloss, glitter, glamour, and glimmer to get ready. It takes time - because sparkle is serious business! Tori loves helping Daddy become Miss Rita. But will the other kids ...
"When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a "slash" to keep her head above water-a writer/waitress/actress/Box Girl. One night each week, Lilibet would go to The Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, don a pair of white boy shorts ...
Best known for the groundbreaking portrait of his mother, James McNeill Whistler was the original art star. But beneath the high gloss, the struggle of this genius to find his own voice resulted in a breakaway style that moved painting towards abstraction and would revolutionize ...
"Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch--the Anthropocene--one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before '...
"A sucker punch to the senses...a killer story with real heart and soul." - Alastair Reynolds When a young man's planet is destroyed, he sets out on a single-minded quest for revenge across the galaxy in Nophek Gloss , the first book in this epic space opera trilogy deb...
The Black Crowes are leaving the bullshit in the past. 15 years after their last album of original music, the Robinson Brothers present'Happiness Bastards'- their 10th studio album. Some may say the project has been several tumultuous years in the making, but we argue it's arrivi...
"This isn't a book. It's a smooch in disguise. (Just because you're my absolute favorite--that's why.) It's a smooch that just perfectly brightens your day. I want you to know I designed it that way." This may look like a book, but it's really a peck you get to plant on your swee...
"In this warm and honest memoir, celebrated academic Njoki Wane shares her journey from her parents' small coffee farm in Kenya, where she helped her mother in the fields as a child, to her current work as a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the Unive...
"In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned by her guardian on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother of three becomes captivated by the image of Marguerite sh...
"Named for the anarchist utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction classic The Dispossessed, Dispatches from Anarres embodies the anarchic spirit of Le Guin's hometown, Portland, Oregon, while paying tribute to her enduring vision. In stories that range from fantasy to sci fi...
Now that you're not a little girl anymore you'd love to move beyond cheap lip gloss into the high-fashion world of smudge-proof lipstick, lash-lengthening mascara, and that flirty eye shadow advertised in magazines ---because that's what it takes to be beautiful these days, right...
Katie Harris loved growing up on a ranch. She had her horse, the beautiful Texas prairie, and Cole Logan, the cowboy next door. But there are a lot of secrets hidden under a Texas sky. . . Katie was always sure she'd marry Cole Logan someday--until he kicked away her pretty dr...
Inspiring correspondence from the originator of "The Medium Is the Message," available for the first time in over 25 years Called an "oracle" and a "sage," Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) became one of the most famous men of the sixties and seventies. His reputation as a groundbrea...
Brian Purdy has, almost from his beginnings, been a reader and a writer, but he's rarely published. In this book, he offers a unique collection, stating: "These are a son's poems for and about his father. At the same time, they are a poet's word picture of another poet -- a man o...
"One of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time." -Eowyn Ivey "Shares the trail with the likes of Edward Abbey, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry." -Craig Johnson, best-selling author of the W alt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the hit show Longmire W...
Supermodel and super CEO of our time Tyra Banks and her mother Carolyn show readers why when you kick perfection to the curb and showcase your unique beauty ain't nobody gonna stop you! In Perfect Is Boring , Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn, get raw, real and cray-in-a-g...
**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** "Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of...
"Denton and his quirky friends are laugh-out-loud funny, even as their riotous adventures raise deeper questions about science, government control, life, and death. " - SLJ You only live once - unless you're Denton Little! Denton Little lives in a world exactly lik...