Books from Abrams
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Sister Parish: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer
By Apple Parish Bartlett, Susan Bartlett Crater" --Quintessence blog "This book is a MUST HAVE for any design library of substance or design student." --Architect Design blog
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Coco Chanel: Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress
By Susan Goldman RubinCapel Yet she had always hoped that one day they would marry, despite her lower-class background. But in the spring of 1918, Boy became engaged to an English aristocrat, Diana Lister Wyndham. They married in October, just before the war ...
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Eating Cuban: 120 Authentic Recipes from the Streets of Havana to American Shores
By Beverly Cox, Martin JacobsRice is served at least once a day in most Cuban households. Except for dishes like arroz con pollo and arroz con leche, where the creamier texture of shortgrain rice is desirable, Cubans usually prefer to cook with longgrain rice.
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The Company: A Novel of the CIA
By Robert Littell“He's in a funk,” she announced; the way she said it made it sound as if the funk were terminal. “How can you tell?” Jack asked. “He's drinking V-8 Cocktail Vegetable juice instead of whiskey.” “What caused it?” Jack asked.
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Modernique: Inspiring Interiors Mixing Vintage and Modern Style
By Julia BuckinghamThank you, Nancy Hazlett and Leanne Lawton, my partners in Cincinnati antique shop crime. Our storefront Crackle was my first entrepreneurial adventure and it was a whole lot of fun! To my publisher, Abrams, I am beyond grateful.
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America's Great Illustrators
By Susan E. MeyerProfiles the lives and works of ten American illustrators: Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, and John Held ...
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Island: A Novel
By Jane RogersThe Addams family. Oh I'm not scared when a lunatic makes a grab for my throat in a pitch dark woodshed on a lonely island where no one knows me, it's just fine. I wonder what happened to her last lodger. 'Go away.
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A Question of Identity: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
By Susan HillKeyes is charged with the murders of Carrie Millicent Gage (88), Sara Pearce (76) and Angela Daphne Kavanagh (80), all of whom lived near to one another in the complex. Mr Anthony Elrod QC, prosecuting, said that Keyes had known ...
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The Betrayal of Trust: A Simon Serailler Mystery
By Susan Hill... Helen Hayes, Helen Nicholson, Jack Ruston, James, Malcolm Hugh, Richard, Ivo, Lydia and Berry Delingpole, Janette Jenkins, Jenny Colgan, Jess Ruston, Jo Crocker, Josie Charlotte Jackson, Kitty Hodges, Lesley Jackson, Liam Pearce, ...
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
By Michael Ruhlman... be to figure out where you're going to get food, and life wouldn't be so much fun. Strangely, though, after his initial rhapsody on the great achievement of the supermarket, Hitt begins an extended criticism of the people who run ...
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The Pure in Heart: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
By Susan HillLee Carter. Lee Johnson. Flapper. They'd included him, and that had mattered. He'd liked the money as well. Everything had gone fine. They'd done small jobs, then bigger. He hadn't been prepared for it all to go so wrong so quickly.
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Silk and Cotton: Textiles from the Central Asia that Was
By Susan MellerGibb, H. A. Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325–1354. New Delhi: Manohar facsimilie, 2006. Glazebrook, Philip. Journey to Khiva: A Writer's Search for Central Asia. New York: Kodansha America, 1994. Graham, Stephen.
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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
By Sungju Lee, Susan Elizabeth McClellandI could hear my brothers scratching their chins. Chulho and Unsik were starting to show man-stubble. “Chang,” Chulho eventually called out. Chang means “spear” in Korean. “Why?” I exclaimed. “After all, you're more like a Chang.
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Under the Tree: The Toys and Treats That Made Christmas Special, 1930-1970
By Susan WaggonerIn addition to the fascinating stories behind each toy, the book is bursting with cultural history, quotes, and lore—all wrapped up with more than 100 full-color vintage illustrations.
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The Comforts of Home: A Simon Serrailler Case
By Susan Hill'I'm fine. Does anybody have a car that would pick me up?' 'They do not, not at this time of night in this weather. Where are you heading? ... The red-headed man pushed some coins across the bar top to the barman. 'I've seen you before.
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Ada Twist, Scientist: Show Me the Bunny
By Gabrielle Meyer, NetflixA sweet and funny storybook about learning from your mistakes and accepting that sometimes you might fail, this is the most egg-cellent book for the Easter season.
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The Quilts of Gee's Bend
By Susan Goldman RubinSusan Goldman Rubin. Mary L. Bennett, 2000. Mary L. Bennett also began on her own. “Didn't nobody.
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Hour of the Cat
By Peter QuinnAnderson looked up from the Völkischer Beobachter, its gushing account of yesterday's event nothing less than what he expected from the Nazi Party's official newspaper. A paper flag bearing the rising sun held over his head, ...
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Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader: Revised Edition
By Matthew Qvortrup... the star of Berlin hairdressing who had styled Marlene Dietrich, Marie Callas, Twiggy, Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, Julia Roberts, Naomi Campbell and, somewhat bizarrely, the terrorist Ulrike Meinhof. He, so Walz claimed, ...
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A Sixth Sense
By Michael Oristaglio, Alexander DorozynskiNiels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, George Gamov, Leo Szilard, Victor Weisskopf, and many others – were in the United States, doing research and teaching a new generation of American students returning to universities after the war ...