Going Vintage

Going Vintage
Author: Lindsey Leavitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1619631954

Live like it's 1962 in this fun, contemporary YA read from the never-out-of-date Lindsey Leavitt.

Quilt As-You-Go Made Vintage

Quilt As-You-Go Made Vintage
Author: Jera Brandvig
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617454737

From the bestselling author of Quilt As-You-Go Made Modern—learn to create vintage quilts more quickly and easily than ever. Get comfortable with basic piecing and machine quilting - one block at a time! Best-selling author Jera Brandvig is back, this time with a romantic take on her quilt-as-you-go designs. Try your hand at nine projects, including an elegant sampler with fifty-one mix-and-match blocks. For quilt as-you-go enthusiasts, Jera shares three optional joining methods, including her new technique that makes your quilt reversible! No matter how busy your schedule, you can set attainable goals and practice quilting patchwork blocks in small, manageable pieces. · Timeless, classic quilts for busy folks! Easily finish quilts on your home machine with quilt-as-you-go · Learn a new way to quilt-as-you-go that decorates the back of your quilt in pretty patchwork squares · Mix and match fifty-one blocks to assemble a one-of-a-kind quilt! “Whilst the first book focused on improvisational techniques in a modern style, this one is about using vintage fabrics in classic block designs. There are useful sections on tools and supplies, working with batting, and choosing your fabrics. Each project is laid out in an easy-to-follow fashion that is packed with photos and diagrams. Overall, a well-considered books that is a delight to look through with a warm, encouraging tone of voice.”—Popular Patchwork

Going to Meet the Man

Going to Meet the Man
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804149755

A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.

Ant and Bee Go Shopping

Ant and Bee Go Shopping
Author: Angela Banner
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1992
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780434929702

Beauty by God

Beauty by God
Author: Shelly Ballestero
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2009-01-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1441224580

Some Christian women believe they must downplay their appearance in order to be godly, but looking your best doesn't have to mean maintaining a supermodel image. Women can be creative with their appearance and enhance God's gift of beauty without feeling guilty. Women face the world each day under pressure to look their best. How can they balance the desire to uncover and maintain God-given outer beauty with inner beauty arising from their faith? Beauty coach Shelly Ballestero helps women navigate pressure from the world to meet unrealistic standards of outer perfection and inspires them to discover the true beauty God designed in them, inside and out! Beauty by God offers the reader both spiritual principles to develop inner beauty and practical tips for caring for her God-given body.

Anti-Bride Guide

Anti-Bride Guide
Author: Carolyn Gerin
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-01-13
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1452112908

Into a sea of pearl white and pale blue comes the hot pink and orange Anti-Bride Guide. The perfect book for anyone alienated by the high-brow wedding industry, this practical guide fills a huge gap in the wedding planner market. A riot to read and filled with sassy illustrations, each chapter offers up fabulous advice and unusual ideas for those brides looking for more than the standard fare. Hundreds of fantastic tips give great insider advice on how to deal with any and all wedding eventualities (lipstick stain on dress, caterer from hell, wedding day breakout). A handy planner and resource guide keeps the bride on track, and tabbed chapters have pockets for stuffing brochures and clippings. For the bride who wants her wedding her way, this is the ultimate guide.

A Nasty Piece of Work

A Nasty Piece of Work
Author: Robert Littell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250021456

Krimi. Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the comforts, such as they are, of a mobile home. Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a thirty-something woman making a hash out of her uncle's bail bonds business

Atomic Ranch

Atomic Ranch
Author: Michelle Gringeri-Brown
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2006-08-29
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 142360895X

An in-depth exploration of midcentury residential architecture in America, with extensive photos and design tips included. Post-World War II ranches (1946–1970) range from the decidedly modern gable-roofed Joseph Eichler tracts in the San Francisco Bay area and butterfly wing houses in Palm Springs, Florida, to the unassuming brick or stucco L-shaped ranches and split-levels so common throughout the United States. In this book Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown, founders and publishers of the popular quarterly Atomic Ranch magazine, extol the virtues of the tract, split-level, rambler home and its many unique qualities: private front facades, open floor plans, secluded bedroom wings, walls of glass, and an easy-living style. From updated homes with high-end Italian kitchens, terrazzo floors, and modern furniture to affordable homeowner renovations with eclectic thrift-store furnishings, Atomic Ranch presents twenty-five homes showcasing inspiring examples of stylish living through beautiful color photographs, including before and after shots, design-tip sidebars, and a thorough resource index. Atomic Ranch reveals: Hallmarks of the ranch style Inspiring original ranch homes Ranch house transformations and makeovers Preservation of mid-century neighborhoods Adding personality to a ranch home Yards and landscaping A helpful resource section and index