John Berger

Maria Nadotti

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

“Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call ‘in the meantime.’” —John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously published for the first time in English by Notting Hill Editions. Berger died before it was completed, but the text has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and friend Selçuk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti. What Time Is It? is a profound and playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Berger, the great art critic and Man Booker Prize–winning author, reflects on what time has come to mean to us in modern life. Our perception of time assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of time, yet time is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. We talk of time “saved” in a hundred household appliances; time, like money, is exchanged for the content it lacks. Berger posits the idea that time can lengthen lifetimes once we seize the present moment. “What-is-to-come, what-is-to-be-gained empties what-is.”

What Time Is It?

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The Culinary Institute of America

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

"The bible for all chefs." —Paul Bocuse Named one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade by Food Arts magazine, The Professional Chef is the classic kitchen reference that many of America's top chefs have used to understand basic skills and standards for quality as well as develop a sense of how cooking works. Now, the ninth edition features an all-new, user-friendly design that guides readers through each cooking technique, starting with a basic formula, outlining the method at-a-glance, offering expert tips, covering each method with beautiful step-by-step photography, and finishing with recipes that use the basic techniques. The new edition also offers a global perspective and includes essential information on nutrition, food and kitchen safety, equipment, and product identification. Basic recipe formulas illustrate fundamental techniques and guide chefs clearly through every step, from mise en place to finished dishes. Includes an entirely new chapter on plated desserts and new coverage of topics that range from sous vide cooking to barbecuing to seasonality Highlights quick reference pages for each major cooking technique or preparation, guiding you with at-a-glance information answering basic questions and giving new insights with expert tips Features nearly 900 recipes and more than 800 gorgeous full-color photographs Covering the full range of modern techniques and classic and contemporary recipes, The Professional Chef, Ninth Edition is the essential reference for every serious cook.

The Professional Chef

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Jazmina Barrera

Christina MacSweeney

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel." --The Paris Review

Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is "first and foremost, that human beings are here."

Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, and many others.

In trying to "collect" lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone--from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one--concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.

On Lighthouses

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Louisiana

The Constitution of the United States with Explanations

Alison Weir

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Life

In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of a truly exceptional woman and provides new insights into her intimate world. 

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons.

Eleanor of Aquitaine lived a long life of many contrasts, of splendor and desolation, power and peril, and in this stunning narrative, Weir captures the woman--and the queen--in all her glory. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, she recreates not only a remarkable personality but a magnificent past era.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

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John Bayley

Wry, intelligent (an, at times, unexpectedly hilarious) The Iris Trilogy is an unforgettable inquiry into the nature of love and identity and a uniquely moving articulation of loss.

The Iris Trilogy

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Zadie Smith

Maryland

Six Essays

“[Smith’s] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with startling clarity. . . . The personal and political intermingle for a powerful indictment of America’s social systems.” —TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 “While quarantined amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Smith penned six dazzling, trenchant essays burrowing deep into our contemporary culture of disease and upheaval and reflecting on what was ‘once necessary’ that now ‘appears inessential . . .’” —O, The Oprah Magazine, Best Books of 2020 “Smith does more than illuminate what we're going through right now. She offers a model of how to think ourselves through a fraught historical moment without getting hysterical or sanctimonious, without losing our compassion or our appreciation for what's good in other people. She teaches us how to be better at being human.” —John Powers, Fresh Air Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time. Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it? Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened--and what should come next. The author will donate her royalties from the sale of Intimations to charity.

Intimations

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Rob Sheppard

Oklahoma

Simplified Tips & Tricks

You already know digital photography basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you a more productive digital photographer. Minimal text and maximum illustrations Task-oriented, step-by-step approach Navigational aids connect instructions to illustrations Self-contained, two-page lessons Uniform layout makes it easy to read less, learn more How easy is it? Look for these symbols marking the difficulty of each task. Demonstrates a new spin on a common task Introduces a new skill or a new task Combines multiple skills requiring in-depth knowledge Requires extensive skill and may involve other technologies

Digital Photography

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Ron Padgett

How to Be Perfect

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Amy Newmark

Inspiring Stories for Teens and Young Adults about Making the Right Decisions

You can’t be a success in life if you can’t get along with other people — at home, at school, and at play. This collection of stories about tolerance, acceptance, self-esteem, and making good decisions will help teens and young adults create their best future. The values that young adults learn today will stay with them for the rest of their lives and help them become the best adults they can be. The inspiring personal stories in this collection are a great way for teens and young adults to not just read about role models, but to learn how to be role models — exhibiting qualities of tolerance, acceptance and self-esteem, and making good decisions. This book harnesses the power of storytelling to inspire and teach teens and young adults while also entertaining them. Key issues such as bullying; religious, ethnic, and lifestyle tolerance; values; and sticking up for what’s right are addressed in stories selected from Chicken Soup for the Soul’s vast library of bestselling books, representing the best on these topics from the company’s 22-year history. This book is a joint project of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Boniuk Foundation, which are working together to promote tolerance, respect, and compassion, inspiring young people and adults to embrace their differences, reject stereotypes, and make good choices. The book is part of a larger effort that includes additional books for kids and preteens, college students, parents, and grandparents, as well as a family television show every Saturday morning starting in October.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Create Your Best Future

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Michael Lewis

Texas

A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield--both had important careers in the Israeli military--and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn't remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter. This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind.

The Undoing Project

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Ben Long

How to Make Better Pictures Using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

"If you're ready to learn how you can use Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to make the most of your camera's raw capabilities, this book is the place to start. Author and photographer Ben Long introduces you to the raw format, explaining when it offers advantages over your camera's default options, and then how best to use it."--BOOK JACKET.

Camera Raw

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Jaycee Dugard

Oregon

A Memoir

The woman abducted at age 11 by a man and woman who subsequently held her hostage and sexually abused her for 18 years discusses her life.

A Stolen Life

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Jenni Bidner

Foolproof Recipes for Perfect Glamour, Portrait, Still Life and Corporate Photographs

Learning how to set up, use, and control lighting is the biggest challenge facing photographers who want to do studio work. With the help of this manual, serious amaeturs, photography students, and pros switching from outdoor to studio work are sure to become lighting masters. Beginning with an inventory of ingredients found in a well-stocked commercial studio,The Lighting Cookbook,presents every essential piece of lighting and shooting equipement, with a full explanation of how, when, and why each is used. Dozens of lighting recipies from six top pros come next. They reveal step by step how they made their shots, complete with set-up details, lens choices, composition decisions, and lighting diagrams. The foolproof recipies cover a range of studio-work specialities, including glamour, fashion, still life, and portraiture - corporate, children, and pets. The Lighting Cookbokprovides all levels of photographers with everything they need to know about studio lighting to achieve great pictures on a regular basis.

The Lighting Cookbook

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Eugene H. Peterson

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Two Bible Versions Together for Study and Comparison

Setting the New International Version and The Message together, this hardcover Bible allows you to instantly compare today s most popular modern-English Bible translation: the NIV, and Eugene H. Peterson s bestselling paraphrase: The Message. And a special foreword from Eugene H. Peterson illuminates the importance of this unique format, and the blessing we have to read these two great versions of Scripture."

Niv and the Message Side-by-Side Bible

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Barry Huggins

Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Lighting Techniques

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Linda J. Sattgast

Pages are clean and unmarked. Some shelf wear and corner bumping.

Read Aloud Stories from the Old and New Testaments

Filled with vivid, 4-color illustrations, this popular book will provide many hours of enjoyment. Told in lilting verse & read-aloud rhyme, its 35 classic Bible stories teach key biblical truths in delightful ways.

The Rhyme Bible

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Colleen Hoover

Out of print cover of Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us comes a passionate tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance.

At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her--and she's forced to decide what her next move should be.

Soon, Sydney finds herself captivated by her mysterious and attractive neighbor, Ridge. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening to the passionate way he plays his guitar every evening out on his balcony. And there's something about Sydney that Ridge can't ignore, either. They soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one.

Maybe Someday

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Deke McClelland

Katrin Eismann

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Industrial Strength Imaging Techniques

Once the domain of professional photographers and designers, digital photography is making inroads into businesses everywhere as prices drop and image quality rises. Whether you plan to use digital imagery for fine art, illustration, or documentation--in print or on the Web--Real World Digital Photography is your industrial-strength reference guide to this exciting and evolving technology. Written by two nationally recognized experts in digital imaging, the book is chock-full of hands-on production techniques designed specifically for working professionals. It also includes advice on how to choose a camera that fits your needs and your budget, a full-color portfolio that beautifully illustrates the creative potential of digital photography, and the accumulated wisdom of artists and others who use the technology in their daily work.

Real World Digital Photography

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Rick Bragg

National Bestseller

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin' a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.

This time he's writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family's table through the worst of the Great Depression; a moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold; an unregenerate brawler, who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm.

In telling Charlie's story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed in front of ladies. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid you can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava's Man is unforgettable.

Memoir 📚 | Ava's Man by Rick Bragg | Paperback, First Edition

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Karen Kovacik

"Wow! What a book! The tradition of women's writing that flows out of the work of Symborska and Anna Swir--the way this mighty tradition turns in the hands of a younger generation from the traumatic history of their country to a poetics of everyday life, of play, and experiment. An absolutely rich and appealing book."--Robert Hass

"These cosmopolitan, multilingual poets speak to us across the decades, overcoming a great silence, redirecting the myths, reimagining the role of the poet, and the nature of poetry itself.Scattering the Darkis a useful, subversive, even necessary anthology."--Edward Hirsch

Scattering the Darkoffers a lively selection of over thirty of Poland's women poets writing before and after the fall of communism.

Karen Kovacikis a translator and poet.

Scattering the Dark: an Anthology of Polish Women Poets

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Joseph Brodsky

Presents the collected English poems of the former Poet Laureate of the United States who was exiled from his native Russia, only to go on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Reprint.

Collected Poems in English

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Ric Degaris Doble

Shoot, Upload, and Enhance Photos Like a Pro

With a snap of the shutter and a couple clicks of the mouse, you can take stunning photos and share them with the world. Digital photography is one of the easiest art forms to master-if you only know how. The Everything Digital Photography Book, 2nd Edition, has everything you need to take full advantage of this evolving art form. Learn how to: Choose the perfect camera Use light and flashes for optimum effect Download and transfer images Compress images and post photos online Create personalized gifts like calendars Whether you're a novice photographer or a budding professional, this indispensable guide shows you how to capture the perfect shot-every time! Rick deGaris Doble is an award-winning photographer with nearly 40 years of photography experience. His site, www.RickDoble.net, receives 150,000 unique hits per year and his popular 600-photo "painting with light" section was ranked #2 in Google searches. Doble has been working with computer-related digital imagery for the past 22 years and, for the past 14, he has taught photography courses at institutions like Duke University. He lives in Smyrna, North Carolina.

Digital Photography Book

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John Berger; Maria Nadotti