Peter Webb

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Webb provides an intriguing and informative biography that concentrates on the central themes important to an understanding of Hockney and his work: the artist's special sense of humor, his homosexuality, and his awareness of art history. Illustrated.

Portrait of David Hockney

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Nancy Grubb

Captures a myriad of angels in a multitude of guises as portrayed by artists ranging from Botticelli to Rembrandt, and organizes its enclosed works under such headings as "Heavenly Messengers" and "Guardian Angels and Companions."

Angels in Art

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Barbara Plumb

Alec Hemer

Flower Arrangements by Chris Giftos at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Combining floral artistry with fine and decorative art, "A Bouquet from the Met" presents stunning and imaginative displays of fresh flowers within the galleries and period rooms of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 100 color photos.

Bouquet from the Met

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Kate Farrell

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry

A companion volume to Art & Love presents poems that touch upon the magnificence of the world's wild places and includes works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art and Nature

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Ilene S. Fort

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) fell in love with New York after moving there in 1889, and it became one of his favorite subjects for his paintings. His urbanscapes are shown here not only as sumptuous tonalist paintings but also as visual records of a city in the throes of a profound transformation from quaint city to crowded metropolis. Illuminating quotes by Hassam and writers of the day are featured with the full-color reproductions.

Childe Hassam's New York

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John Hall

Barbara Milo Ohrbach

Practical Advice and Beautiful Ideas for Creating Flower-Filled Rooms

"When you bring flowers into your home and your life, you surround your family and friends with natural beauty that creates a climate of well-being and continuity." Barbara Milo Ohrbach, author of nine books, including the best-selling The Scented Room, now celebrates the joy of flowers in her gorgeously photographed new book, Simply Flowers. Ms. Ohrbach brings her creative approach and exquisite taste to arranging fresh flowers, providing all the basics you will need to effortlessly decorate and beautify your home with flowers, from simple country baskets spilling with vibrant wild flowers to stylish arrangements of carefully chosen blossoms. Filled with practical advice and innovative ideas, including handy lists of botanicals, Simply Flowers is a very personal and imaginative book that takes the mystery out of flower arranging, making it easy and enjoyable. Ms. Ohrbach offers important tips on selecting and cutting flowers, and how to keep them looking fresh and beautiful for as long as possible; choosing the proper vase to complement your bouquet; finding the perfect place for your flowers; clever ways of mixing fruits and vegetables with botanicals; and simple arrangements that are especially quick to make when you're pressed for time. She discusses forcing bulbs and branches; using silk flowers and house plants; and ways to use ribbons and fabrics that will turn your flowers into charming and welcome gifts. Readers with green thumbs (and even those without) will find helpful suggestions for planning their own cutting gardens or window boxes. And for anyone who likes to entertain, there are easy ideas for inventive table decorations. At the end of her book, Ms. Ohrbach shares the sources she has relied on over the years for cut flowers and arrangements, books on flowers and gardening, and catalogues for bulbs, seeds, plants, and tools and accessories. Whether you're a practiced hand at flower arranging, new to the art, or someone who just has a passion for flower-filled rooms, Simply Flowers will be a perennial inspiration.

Simply Flowers

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Charles S. Moffet

James N. Wood

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Beyond Impressionism

This book contains 81 paintings from the 40 years Monet spend at his country home in Giverny, accompanied by a narrative on Monet's life, loves, and influences. It recounts Monet's development from an Impressionist to an innovative abstractionist.

Monet's Years at Giverny

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Thomas Kinkade

Celebrating the Blessings of Loved Ones

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature," said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thomas Kinkade celebrates the joys of friendship with this new full-color book. Featuring quotes on friendship and thoughts on walking together through life with others, The Garden of Friendship offers a beautiful way for readers to share how much a friendship means. Peaceful garden scenes that inspire quiet reflection, as well as Scriptures and thoughts on friendship from wise men and women, make this a book to treasure like a favorite companion. Thomas Kinkade says, "I intentionally seek out companions who enjoy good conversation and positive activities; people who, like me, believe that life still offers a lot to be hopeful about and that many of the problems in the world are fixable." The Garden of Friendship reminds us all of that rare gift: a good friend.

The Garden of Friendship

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Alastair Duncan

Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany

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David S. Potter

The Story of Inperial Rome From Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor

In 27 BC, after the tumultuous period of civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar, Octavian was proclaimed emperor by the Roman Senate and given the title 'Augustus'. This text charts the 500 years that followed the death of Caesar and eventual triumph of Augustus.

Emperors of Rome

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Lloyd Handwerker

Gil Reavill

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog

From a nickel to an empire, the extraordinary rise of one man, a nation and America's favorite snack. Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nathan Handwerker. An Eastern European Jewish immigrant who left the small provincial world he knew for a fresh start in America, Nathan arrived at Ellis Island speaking not a word of English, unable to read or write, and with twenty-five dollars hidden in his shoes. He had a simple goal: work hard and carve out a piece of the American dream. But history had bigger plans for Nathan. Beginning in 1916, with just five feet of counter space on Coney Island’s Surf Avenue, Nathan sells his frankfurters for five cents. As New York booms, bringing trains and patrons to the seashore, so too does Nathan’s humble frankfurter stand. Soon Nathan’s Famous takes over the whole block, and Nathan gathers around him a dedicated core of workers (many who stay for decades) who help launch the hot dog as an American food staple. Even as the business soars, Nathan remains fiercely loyal to what matters most: his customers, workers, and family. There’s Ida, the wife he fell in love with because no one could peel an onion faster; Sammy, the counterman who could serve an astonishing sixty franks per minute; and then there are the heirs to the empire, Murray and Sol, whose differing visions for the future lead to clashes with their eternally demanding father. Success brings difficulties, and as the two sons vie over control of the family business, a universal story of success and ambition plays out, mirroring the corporatization of the American food industry. Written by Nathan’s own grandson, and at once a portrait of a man, a family, and the changing face of a nation through a century of promise and progress, Famous Nathan is a dog's tale that snaps and satisfies with every page.

Famous Nathan

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Paulo Coelho

Alan R. Clarke

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.

The Alchemist

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Fred Plotkin

Plácido Domingo

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

Explains how to develop an appreciation for opera by furnishing a concise history of opera, a glossary of terms, a list of books and recordings, a listener's guide to key operatic works, and advice on attending a performance

Opera 101

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Maria Semple

A Novel

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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A. C. Wise

A lush, feminist re-imagining on what happened to Wendy after Neverland, for fans of Circe and The Mere Wife. Find the second star from the right, and fly straight on ’til morning, all the way to Neverland, a children’s paradise with no rules, no adults, only endless adventure and enchanted forests – all led by the charismatic boy who will never grow old. But Wendy Darling grew up. She has a husband and a young daughter called Jane, a life in London. But one night, after all these years, Peter Pan returns. Wendy finds him outside her daughter’s window, looking to claim a new mother for his Lost Boys. But instead of Wendy, he takes Jane. Now a grown woman, a mother, a patient and a survivor, Wendy must follow Peter back to Neverland to rescue her daughter and finally face the darkness at the heart of the island…

Wendy, Darling

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Robert Kane

Robert Kane

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Art and Nature

Ilene S. Fort

Childe Hassam's New York

John Hall; Barbara Milo Ohrbach

Simply Flowers

Charles S. Moffet; James N. Wood

Monet's Years at Giverny

Thomas Kinkade

The Garden of Friendship

Alastair Duncan

Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany

David S. Potter

Emperors of Rome

Lloyd Handwerker; Gil Reavill

Famous Nathan

Paulo Coelho; Alan R. Clarke

The Alchemist

Fred Plotkin; Plácido Domingo

Opera 101

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

A. C. Wise

Wendy, Darling

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Peter Webb

Portrait of David Hockney

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Childe Hassam's New York

John Hall; Barbara Milo Ohrbach

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Charles S. Moffet; James N. Wood

Monet's Years at Giverny

Thomas Kinkade

The Garden of Friendship

Alastair Duncan

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David S. Potter

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Lloyd Handwerker; Gil Reavill

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Paulo Coelho; Alan R. Clarke

The Alchemist

Fred Plotkin; Plácido Domingo

Opera 101

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

A. C. Wise

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