Abrams: 1969 books
Knitspeak: An A to Z Guide to the Language of Knitting Patterns
An A to Z Guide to the Language of Knitting Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Knitting can be a challenging craft, but even more challenging than knitting itself is the cryptic language—a mix of abbreviations, numbers, jargon, punctuation marks, and other symbols—in which patterns are usually written. It’s no wonder so many beginners (and even some whose skills are quite...
Up, Down, All-Around Stitch Dictionary
More than 150 stitch patterns to knit top down, bottom up, back and forth, and in the round
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Stitch dictionaries are to knitters what *Webster’*s is to a writer. Within the pages of these inspiring reference books are the endless variations of knit and purl stitches that produce the fabrics of all knitting. But in the Up, Down, All-Around Stitch Dictionary, designer Wendy Bernard does something...
Knitting New Scarves: 27 Distinctly Modern Designs
27 Distinctly Modern Designs
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Scarves are often the first garments beginning knitters try. Then, when they feel ready for a greater creative thrill, they move on to other types of garments. In Knitting New Scarves, Lynne Barr beckons all levels of knitters back to their humble beginnings and then wows them with 27 spectacularly...
Living Color
Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
From fill-in art journals to self-help books on creativity, more than ever the public is striving to bring artistic enlightenment into their everyday lives. In Living Color, one of the country’s most celebrated writers expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration. Tailored to a new generation...
Inspiration
Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Inspiration shares the personal stories and unique voices of 30 extraordinary black women. Whether in the White House or on the courts of Wimbledon, in Hollywood or on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, these women have influenced the social, cultural, and political landscape of this country,...
Life's a Bitch and Then You Change Careers
9 Steps to Get You Out of Your Funk & on to Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Are you tired of the day-to-day drudgery of a job that has become tedious and boring? Are you ready to finally really change your life? Then make an appointment with Andrea Kay, a top career counselor who's on call to help you! No, you don't have to fly to Ohio, where Kay was named Best Career Counselor...
66 Square Feet
A Delicious Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
South Africaborn Marie Viljoen captures the hearts of her readers as she blogs about cooking and gardening on her tiny 66-square-foot terrace in Brooklyn. Named one of the top 10 gardening blogs by Apartment Therapy and the Discovery Channel, 66 Square Feet has also been covered in the New York...
by Adrian McKinty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Danny Lopez is new in town. He made a mistake back home in Las Vegas, and now he has landed at an experimental school in Colorado for “tough cases.” At the Cobalt Charter School, everything is scripted—what the teachers say, what the students reply—and no other speaking is allowed. This supercontrolled...
Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die
Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Landlubbers joke that sailors are always wanting to head off to the ends of the earth, but Chris Santella takes that life-changing desire very seriously. In this, the third installment in his immensely successful Fifty Places” series, Santella assembles a crew of the world’s greatest championship...
Gorsky
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
On a rainy afternoon in London’s old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store’s bored and brilliant clerk, with sourcing...
by Robert Littell
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2002
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it "a perfect little gem, the best Cold War thriller I've read in years," and the praise kept coming with critics hailing Littell as "the American Le Carré" (New York Times) and raving that his books were "as good as...
A Question of Trust
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Penny Vincenzi, internationally bestselling author of No Angel, has dazzled readers with her intricately crafted novels for nearly twenty years. She unleashes her signature narrative prowess once more in her latest novel, A Question of Trust. In 1950s London, Tom Knelston is charismatic, charming,...
by Jesse Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Download the first five chapters of The Haters for free! From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance awardwinning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship,...
Grand Central Terminal
100 Years of a New York Landmark
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Opened in February 1913, Grand Central Terminalone of the country’s great architectural monumentshelped create Midtown Manhattan. Over the next century, it evolved into an unofficial town square for New York. Today, it sits astride Park Avenue at 42nd Street in all its original splendor, attracting...