Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

Just CrossStitch Halloween 

Bert Dodson

Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing system—fifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner. These keys, along with dozens of practice exercises, will help you draw like an artist in no time. You'll learn how to: • Restore, focus, map, and intensify • Free your hand action, then learn to control it • Convey the illusions of light, depth, and texture • Stimulate your imagination through "creative play"

Keys to Drawing

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Carrie Stuart Parks

Draw amazingly accurate portraits starting today!

Even if you're an absolute beginner, you can render strikingly realistic faces and self-portraits! Instructor and FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks makes it simple with foolproof step-by-step instructions that are fun and easy to follow. You'll quickly begin to:

   * Master proportions and map facial features accurately
   * Study shapes within a composition and draw them realistically
   * Use value, light and shading to add life and depth to any portrait
   * Render tricky details, including eyes, noses, mouths and hair


Proven, hands-on exercises and before-and-after examples from Parks' students ensure instant success! It's all the guidance and inspiration you need to draw realistic faces with precision, confidence and style!

Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

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Claire Watson Garcia

Provides lessons on essential drawing skill using a pencil, pen, or charcoal to create still-life drawings and portraits.

Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Drawing with Pencils

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Giovanni Cirardi's Complete Guide to Drawing 

Michael Friel

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Art, music, drama/theater

An Introduction to Oil Painting

The equivalent of a foundation course in traditional oil painting for beginning to intermediate level artists, this in-depth book uses the still life as a practical way to master oil techniques. The still life is a practical, forgiving genre as it does not require the likeness of a portrait or the accurate proportions of the figure and, unlike the landscape, it doesn't change with the weather. Instead, it gives aspiring artists ample time to study and the opportunity to look closer. It can be used as a purely formal subject for drawing and painting techniques, or a platform for emotional expression using personal symbolism and imagery.
 
However, though the still life is used throughout as a teaching tool, this is first and foremost a book about  oil painting. It begins with simple compositions that build to more complex arrangements. Starting with essential information on how to best set up your studio--including lighting, equipment, materials (paints, solvents, brushes, mediums), and preparing your canvas and paper for oil painting--Still Life Painting Atelier then offers concrete lessons in a logical progressive sequence, with step-by-step illustrations, finished paintings, diagrams and tips. Chapters cover:
 


   * How to address composition through thumbnail sketches and line drawings
   * Using underpainting to study the characteristics of light and shade
   * The basics of color theory and color mixing
   * How to use a variety of brushes to create sharp and soft edges
   * Techniques that are helpful when painting metal and glass
   * How to apply glazing and scumbling to bring luminosity and texture

Still Life Painting Atelier

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How to Paint & Draw

Art School

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Drawing Masterclass

Barrington Barber

The Complete Introduction to Drawing 

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C. Salaski

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Offers instruction in oil painting, including such topics as mood and atmosphere, light and form, and brushwork.

Oil Painting with the Masters

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Jack Hamm

A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy

A how-to handbook that makes drawing easy. Offers simplified techniques and scores of brand-new hints and helps. Step by step procedures. Hundreds of illustrations.

Drawing the Head and Figure

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Nancy H. Ramage

Andrew Ramage

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

This is an indispensable guide to the painting, sculpture, mosaics and architecture of ancient Rome. Comprehensive and clear, it covers the 1300 years from the Villanovan and Etruscan forerunners of the Romans to the introduction of Christianity.

Roman Art

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Patrice Boerens

300 Quick and Easy Designs

Includes 300 quick, easy and attractive vintage and retro-style designs all featuring adorable animals. With everything from whimsical rabbits to rubber duckies to too-cute alligators - all organised by theme - this title is suitable for stitchers. To help beginners get started, it contains a brief basics section, and charts and floss information.

Two-Hour Cross-Stitch: Animals

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S. Welch

"This compact book is a fantastic resource and reference for all cross-stitch enthusiasts while being appropriate for all skill levels. Capitalizing on the ever-growing popularity of cross-stitching, this handbook brims with motifs for mini projects, gifts, and samplers. The charted designs are grouped into popular themes offering ideas for all circumstance, including weddings, birthdays, Christmas, and Easter. Stitchers can mix and match designs, choosing from a wonderful selection of charming and appealing patterns, borders, and images. Additionally, a helpful introduction includes advice about materials and techniques, while a how-to-start section and worked examples showcase some of the motifs as samplers and finished pieces"-- Publisher.

1000 Mini Cross Stitch Motifs O/P

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Mark Mehaffey

Challenge Your Artistic Boundaries with 25 Fun Painting Exercises

Overcome "Creative Block" And Break Out of Your Norm! Every artist struggles with creativity at one time or another. Creative Workshop Watercolor & Acrylic will help you, the watercolor artist, explore your creativity and stretch your boundaries while still making the realistic and semi-realistic art that you love to paint. This book is chock-full of hands-on projects, techniques and strategies to get you thinking beyond your self-imposed creative boundaries. Mark Mehaffey, an experience, friendly teacher, begins with the basics of designing a strong painting with shape, value and color. Once you've mastered these keys to any successful painting—regardless of style—you will have the confidence to be more creative! Mehaffey will show you practical techniques and lead you in experiments with color, composition, painting surfaces, methods of applying paint, and more. This book offers creative exercises for every skill level and comfort level, as well as demonstrations, painting critiques, weak/strong comparisons and examples by Mehaffey and a variety of other accomplished artists. With this book in your studio, you'll be encouraged to have fun while creating wonderful art. In no time, you will have a variety of tools for jump-starting your creativity and painting with confidence! Includes bonus DVD on watercolor painting on Yupo®!

Creative Workshop - Watercolor and Acrylic

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Peter Graham

Themes, Composition, Background, Light, Colour

This title allows readers to exlore all the major techniques and media in order to achieve the best results in still life drawings. Chapters discuss perspective, lighting, choosing and arranging a subject and mixing and blending colours. Step-by-step instructions show how to use various methods.

An Introduction to Painting Still Life

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Paula McLain

A Novel

The Paris Wife

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T. C. Boyle

"A critic recently said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, "More happens in one of Boyle's stories than in most post-Victorian novels." This is precisely the case in Without a Hero, fifteen stunning stories that each, in its own way, displays a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America. In this, his fourth story collection, Boyle takes chance after chance, even to the point of reexamining the ethos of Ernest Hemingway, one of the masters of the form. In "Big Game," the wild animal safari takes place not in Africa but on a pay-per-shoot ranch in Southern California and includes an elephant hunt and its vivid consequences. There are echoes here of Hemingway's classic "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and Green Hills of Africa, but Boyle's hunting story is drawn for the age of ecology rather than an age without limits." "Throughout, Boyle displays an astonishing range as he zooms in on such American specimens as the college football player who knows only defeat; the entrepreneur who creates a center for acquisitive disorders; the couple in search of the last toads on earth; and the boy caught between the ingenuousness of childhood and the cynicism of adulthood in "The Fog Man." In some of these stories, Boyle makes you laugh out loud; in others you come closer to understanding the human condition because of the way he cuts to the secret places in his people's hearts. Here is the author of the highly praised 1993 novel, The Road to Wellville, entering a richer and deeper phase in his writing life, his stories bursting with what the Los Angeles Times has called his "ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Without a Hero

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Peggy Post

Peter Post

Personal Skills for Professional Success

The Etiquette Advantage in Business

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Mike Papantonio

MIKE PAPANTONIO PULLS BACK THE CURTAIN ON AMERICA'S DEADLY OPIOID EPIDEMIC IN THIS SPELLBINDING THRILLER ABOUT GREED, CORRUPTION AND THE POWER OF PERSONAL CONVICTION.

 

One week before his law school graduation, Jake Rutledge is shattered. His fraternal twin, Blake, has died of a drug overdose. When Jake returns to his hometown of Oakley, West Virginia, he discovers that his brother was not the only person hooked on opioid painkillers. The entire region has been ravaged by an epidemic insidiously planned and carried out by one of America's most powerful pharmaceutical companies.

Still wet behind the ears, Jake is determined to seek justice for all the victims of Big Pharma's greed. He soon learns that the drug companies' tentacles reach far and deep. His only hope is to get Nicholas "Deke" Deketomis to help. A partner at one of the country's most powerful law firms, Deke's "as tough as a two-dollar steak" and well-known for his winning tactics against corporate wrongdoers. With just enough persistence, Jake coaxes Deke to see Oakley's devastation firsthand. Overwhelmed, Deke agrees to join forces with Jake.

And that's when the real heat begins. Death threats, bribes, unlawful property seizure schemes - all are connected to the massive distribution of both legal and illegal drugs. Everyone is impacted, from the highest levels of corporate America to corrupt local officials to their lackeys and hapless victims. The complexity of the schemes is overwhelming.

Working tirelessly, the lawyers begin to uncover the truth. Along the way, Jake falls in love with Anna Fowler, a former homecoming queen who has succumbed to the power of opioids. With his support, she weans herself off the drugs. Hope begins to bloom -- when suddenly, Jake disappears. As Deke undertakes a desperate search to find him, questions swirl. Has Jake abandoned Anna and his crusade? Can the case against the evildoers move forward without him? Will Oakley and its residents survive? Law and Addiction is real-life drama at its finest -- a book that clears away the darkness page by page, spotlighting a profound truth about our society through expert storytelling.

Law and Addiction

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Daniel Handler

A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay.

Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a view of the water. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter.

Gwen is his daughter. She's fourteen. She's a student, a swimmer, and a best friend. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.

Phil teams up with his young, attractive assistant. They head for the open road, attending a conference to seal a deal.

Gwen teams up with a new, fierce friend and some restless souls. They head for the open sea, stealing a boat to hunt for treasure.

We Are Pirates is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives.

Also, it's about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home.

We Are Pirates

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David A. Nadler

A Blueprint for Effective Governance

Praise for Building Better Boards "Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation." —Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation "Building Better Boards covers all the key issues facing boards in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. It provides practical advice based on the authors' wide-ranging experience with major companies that have built successful boards." —Marty Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz "This important new book uses concepts gleaned from the collective wisdom of our Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Leadership and adds practical, real-world board examples. The section on crisis management is particularly helpful." —Roger W. Raber, president and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors "This book provides a comprehensive review and effective guide to making any board an effective team, and thus an asset, for their company." —Richard H. Koppes of Counsel, Jones Day, and former general counsel, CalPERS "A balanced, insightful, thoughtful, and, above all, useful look at what can be done to create excellent boards." —Edward E. Lawler III, director, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California "Improving board effectiveness is easier said than done. Building Better Boards lays out the how-tos in a clear and compelling way that is of practical value for directors and CEOs alike." —Kenneth W. Freeman, former chairman and CEO, Quest Diagnostics Inc.

Building Better Boards

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Anne Lamott

With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that markedOperating InstructionsandBird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novelRosie), reality is a bit harsher.  Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband.  Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own. Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful,Crooked Little Heartis Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.

Crooked Little Heart

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Amy Lesher

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Just CrossStitch Halloween

Bert Dodson

Keys to Drawing

Carrie Stuart Parks

Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

Claire Watson Garcia

Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

John Barber

Drawing with Pencils

Giovanni Civardi

Giovanni Cirardi's Complete Guide to Drawing

Michael Friel

Still Life Painting Atelier

Hazel Harrison

Art School

Barrington Barber

Drawing Masterclass

Barrington Barber

The Complete Introduction to Drawing

C. Salaski

Oil Painting with the Masters

Jack Hamm

Drawing the Head and Figure

Nancy H. Ramage; Andrew Ramage

Roman Art

Patrice Boerens

Two-Hour Cross-Stitch: Animals

S. Welch

1000 Mini Cross Stitch Motifs O/P

Mark Mehaffey

Creative Workshop - Watercolor and Acrylic

Peter Graham

An Introduction to Painting Still Life

Paula McLain

The Paris Wife

T. C. Boyle

Without a Hero

Peggy Post; Peter Post

The Etiquette Advantage in Business

Mike Papantonio

Law and Addiction

Daniel Handler

We Are Pirates

David A. Nadler

Building Better Boards

Anne Lamott

Crooked Little Heart

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