Abrams: 1969 books

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Mending Matters

Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More

by Katrina Rodabaugh
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: exterior patches,...
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Simple Fare

Fall and Winter

by Karen Mordechai
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

The second book in the seasonal cooking series by Karen Mordechai of Sunday Suppers, Simple Fare: Fall and Winter is a richly illustrated resource, focused on market-driven cooking. It consists of 65 elegant, streamlined recipes for classic dishes, including Roasted Carrots over Smoked Ricotta Toast;...
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Women on Food

Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters

by Charlotte Druckman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019

Women on Food unites the radical, diverging female voices of the food industry in this urgent, moving, and often humorous collection of essays, interviews, questionnaires, illustrations, quotes, and ephemera.   Edited by Charlotte Druckman and featuring esteemed food journalists and thinkers, including...
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by Sean Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

*The Designer’s Dictionary of Type *follows in the footsteps of *The Designer’s Dictionary of Color, *providing a vivid and highly accessible look at an even more important graphic design ingredient: typography. From classic fonts like Garamond and Helvetica, to modern-day digital fonts like...
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Microsculpture

Portraits of Insects

by Levon Biss
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

"You will never look at a beetle or a moth the same way again." --WIRED "Art meets science to dazzling effect." --The Guardian Microsculptureis a unique photographic study of insects in mind-blowing magnification that celebrates the wonders of nature and science. Levon Biss’s...
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Everything I Want to Eat

Sqirl and the New California Cooking

by Jessica Koslow
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

**Selected as Eater's 2016 Cookbook of the Year** **iBooks Best of 2016 Selection** The debut cookbook from Jessica Koslow, award-winning chef of LA’s popular restaurant Sqirl, featuring more than 100 fresh, market-driven, healthy, and flavorful recipes.   Jessica Koslow and her restaurant,...
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The Book of the Moon

A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor

by Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019

Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become commonplace? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In fact, she earned her nickname “Lunatic” because of her deep fascination for all things lunar. In her lucidly written, comprehensive guide to the moon, Aderin-Pocock...
Cover of How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them
by Halley Feiffer
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

Left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother, Ada and Sam cultivate an insular world into which they soon draw a third wheel “ a pockmarked, limping wallflower named Dorrie. In the years spanning childhood to young adulthood, these three troubled girls learn to lean on each other completely,...
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by Brian Froud, Wendy Froud
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

From the preeminent fairy artist and his author wife comes the backstory of Cottington Hall and its intriguing inhabitants, both family and faeries. The rise and fall of the Cottingtons gives us humorous, and sometimes tragic, glimpses into how this eccentric British family became inexorably...
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Dancing Through Fields of Color

The Story of Helen Frankenthaler

by Elizabeth Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019

They said only men could paint powerful pictures, but Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) splashed her way through the modern art world. Channeling deep emotion, Helen poured paint onto her canvas and danced with the colors to make art unlike anything anyone had ever seen. She used unique tools like mops...
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Toy Stories

Photos of Children from Around the World and Their Favorite Things

by Gabriele Galimberti
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

For over a year, the photographer and journal­ist Gabriele Galimberti visited more than 50 countries and created colorful images of boys and girls in their homes and neighborhoods with their most prized possessions: their toys. From Texas to India, Malawi to China, Iceland, Morocco, and Fiji, Galimberti...
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by Boni Ashburn
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015

The narrator of this charming picture book loves her summer hat, but as the seasons change, her hat isn’t always appropriate for every occasion. She must use her crafting skills to turn the hat into a work of art, perfect for every season and holiday. Featuring the same characters from the first...
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by Savannah Guthrie, Allison Oppenheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

**From NBC’s TODAY coanchor Savannah Guthrie and educator Allison Oppenheim comes an empowering fairy tale with a twist. ** In the tradition of Not All Princesses Dress in Pink and Princess in Black, Princesses Wear Pants follows the unflappable Princess Penelope Pineapple, who knows how...
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by Kjartan Poskitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019

Discover the man behind the magic and see how Houdini pulled off his most daring escapes   Before Harry Houdini (1874–1926) became the greatest magician in the world, he was just little Ehrich Weisz, a Hungarian-born immigrant who moved to America with his family and performed stage tricks for...
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