Books from Abrams
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Kaffe Fassett's Bold Blooms: Quilts and Other Works Celebrating Flowers
By Kaffe Fassett, Liza Prior LucyTo the talented sewers who generously lent a hand to help sew the quilt tops—Judy Baldwin, Corienne Kramer, Sally Davis, Julie Stockler, and Penny Jeffries—thank you. It truly took a village to design and craft the Leafy Appliqué quilt.
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Along the Indigo
By Elsie ChapmanThe town of Glory is famous for two things: businesses that front for seedy, if not illegal, enterprises and the suicides that happen along the Indigo River.
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Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies that Made It
By Jason BaileyThe RKO board was less enthusiastic, concerned that even with Cooper's corner-cutting, the budget would be far too high for such a strange-sounding picture (and from a struggling studio). Selznick suggested a compromise: If Cooper put ...
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Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide
By Shirley Halperin, Steve Bloom... is part drunken hootenanny, part all-star jam and tribute (fellow outlaw Waylon Jennings takes the stage for a few songs, including his serenade “Willie the Wandering Gypsy”), and never a dull moment. Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert ...
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Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life
By Shirley Halperin, Steve Bloom“Late in the Evening,” One Trick Pony (1980) Paul Simon SimonsansGarfunkel's nod to pot. Stony Lyric: “And I stepped outside and smoked myself a jay.” “Champagne & Reefer,” King Bee (1981) Muddy Waters The blues singer's ode to his two ...
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Unprotected: A Memoir
By Billy Porter... to Martin Lawrence's side-splitting ghetto diva Sheneneh on his hit television sitcom Martin, to Tyler Perry's Madea—Hallelujer! Society's capacity to receive these heterosexual men, in full drag, without any pushback, was the norm.
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The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
By Jillian Peterson, James DensleyHow to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic Jillian Peterson, James Densley ... Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox recalls how the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks deflected attention from an alarming sequence of school ...
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Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
By John Hands3 Ramachandran, V S and Colin Blakemore (2003) “Consciousness” in The Oxford Companion to the Body Oxford: Oxford University Press Cosmides, Leda and John Tooby (1997) “Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer” ...
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Easy Prey
By Catherine LoShe's around here somewhere,” Ella says in a dramatic stage whisper. “We found her out in the bushes watching you, and she came in, like, five minutes ago.” Drew sees me before Ella does, and cocks an eyebrow at me mockingly.
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The Sopranos Sessions
By Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller SeitzD: No, it wasn't, and it was by Dave Davies, not Ray. Most of their hits are Ray Davies songs. That song is about England, of all things. Denise and I had a CD of some kind of amalgam of Kinks songs, and that was on there.
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The Empire of Tea
By Alan Macfarlane, Iris MacFarlaneThe anthropologist Sidney Mintz described how the 'first sweetened cup of hot tea to be drunk by an English worker was a significant historical event, because it prefigured the transformation of an entire society, ... Žoos o - L so - o -
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Bruised
By Sarah SkiltonThe main story line about Imogen’s struggle to come to terms with what she did (and did not do) is nuanced and honest." —Horn Book "This is a useful exploration of the difference between fantasy-style omnipotence and the complexity of ...
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Rosé All Day: The Essential Guide to Your New Favorite Wine
By Katherine ColeCole explains in detail how rosé is created and then tells us where to find the good stuff. The book invites readers to journey from the sunny vineyards of southern France to the idyllic hillsides of Italy and beyond.
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Supergirl: Age of Atlantis
By Jo Whittemore“Jackson! What are you doing here?” Jackson glanced at her in confusion. “Ma'am?” Alex pointed toward the exit. “I told you and Whitby to wait at the van!” The other DEO agent just stared. “Ma'am, I've been in here since we arrived.
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Live Beautiful
By Athena Calderone... between an aluminum-cast stool by the Dutch designer Jan Janssen and a prehistoric Egyptian vessel. I get attracted to the same universe, and therefore the pieces still fit together despite millennia separating them.
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Thomas O'Brien: Library House
By Thomas O'BrienIncluding behind-the-scenes stories about the extraordinary property and exclusive insight into O’Brien’s passion for gardens, this new book is an obsessive design companion and an aspirational guide to living a beautiful life in a ...
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The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label
By Barry MilesNOVEMBER: George Harrison produced Jackie Lomax's Is This What You Want? album at Sound Recorders studios in Los Angeles. NOVEMBER: George Harrison records 'No Time or Space' on the Moog synthesizer at Sound Recorders as Bernie Kraus ...
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The Flash: Johnny Quick: (The Flash Book 2)
By Barry Lygalooking for Harrison Wells!” he called out. “Step. Back!” The voice sounded more insistent now. “You know the penalty for being in the No-Go Zone!” Barry turned in a slow circle, looking up. He still couldn't see where the voice was ...
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The Steampunk User's Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-futurist Dreams
By Jeff VanderMeer, Desirina BoskovichIt's a picture of Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, who was Marie Antoinette's childhood music teacher. In later life, she became his patron, even though it wasn't a very popular move on her part. In stencilstyle letters over the ...
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Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier
By Alan Zweibel... we got no nibbles from Scarlett Johannsen, Kate McKinnon, or Amy Schumer. Emma Stone's manager wouldn't even give it to her to read. We did more drafts. Made Emma a street singer with recording contract aspirations. And funnier.