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For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have not appeared in a book before.
Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools. They comfort each other amid the ashes of failed relationships and in hospital waiting rooms. They try to locate themselves in a world where all the old landmarks have been turned into theme parks. Funny and sorrowful, fiercely compressed yet emotionally
expansive,
Park City is dazzling.
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Ann Beattie arrived on the literary scene in the early 1970s, publishing the first of her carefully understated short stories in the New Yorker and becoming something of a legend for the speed with which she worked--22 stories in a year, and a complete draft of her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, in three weeks. Time has not slowed Beattie down--her fifth collection, Park City, follows hard on the heels of her fifth novel, My Life, Starring Dara Falcon, providing a kind of symmetry to her output. Lest you think Beattie is some kind of perpetual writing machine, however, be forewarned that only 8 of the 36 stories in this collection have not been previously published in book form; the rest are selected from earlier collections, thus offering an interesting survey of how the writer has changed--and how she hasn't.
From the start of her career, Beattie has been compared to Cheever and Updike, chroniclers of the chilly middle classes, and also to Raymond Carver, master practitioner of that school of literature known as minimalism. Beattie's stories seem smaller than life in some ways, depending as they do on an accretion of detail to round out her characters' lives. In her world, as in our own, there are no grand epiphanies, no moments of blinding realization. Instead, her characters muddle through their days in a series of small events that culminate in a whisper instead of a bang. In "Going Home with Uccello," for example, a woman on holiday with her lover in Italy watches him interact with a woman in a museum gift shop and realizes his true purpose for the trip is not to convince her to make a commitment to him, but rather to "persuade himself that he loved her so much that no one else could be a distraction--that no other woman could come between them." In "What Was Mine" another nameless narrator--male, this time--claims his inheritance from the man who had been his widowed mother's lover and the only father figure he'd ever known:
There was sheet music inside: six Billie Holiday songs that I recognized immediately as Herb's favorites for ending the last set of the evening. There were several notes, which I suppose you could call love notes, from my mother. There was a tracing, on a food-stained Merry Mariner place mat, of a cherry, complete with stem, and a fancy pencil-drawn frame around it that I vaguely remembered Herb having drawn one night. There was also a white envelope that contained the two pictures of one of the soldiers on Guam; one of a handsome young man looking impassively at a sleeping young baby. I knew the second I saw it that he was my father.
Understanding, such as it is, comes in the quiet moments, in the exchange of glances in a gift shop, or the transposed captions on a couple of photographs.
Over the years, Beattie has continued to map the psychological and emotional territory of the urban, the educated, the neurotic middle class. On those occasions when her stories are set outside of New York--Vermont, Park City, Utah, Italy--her characters are generally from there, or at least from another large city such as Los Angeles. Beattie's prose has always been crisp, smart with just a touch of the smart aleck to it--on occasion she can be remarkably funny. But there's a chilliness in her stories that discourages the reader from getting too close, or investing too much. Her often nameless narrators tell their tales in the modulated tones of well-brought-up people for whom not wearing one's heart on one's sleeve is a religion. And yet in their spare revelations of loss and disappointment, their timid essays to the borderlands of hope, more often than not these characters do get under your skin. Depending on your tolerance for ambiguity, they can either irritate or captivate. Beattie's work tends to play to the intellect rather than the gut. For readers looking for a shot to the cerebellum, she satisfies; for those who prefer their fiction warm-blooded, Park City might be a trifle too cool. --Alix Wilber
Customer Reviews:
well, here's the stories.......2007-03-16
Out of frustration at not being able to find the stories in this collection, I am posting them here:
Cosmos 3
Second Question 38
Going Home with Uccello 51
The Siamese Twins Go Snorkeling 58
Zalla 75
Ed and Dave Visit the City 82
The Four-Night Fight 90
Park City 100
Vermont 137
Wolf Dreams 154
Dwarf House 166
Snakes' Shoes 175
Secrets and Surprises 185
Weekend 196
A Vintage Thunderbird 211
Shifting 226
The Lawn Party 238
Colorado 251
Learning to Fall 273
The Cinderella Waltz 283
Jacklighting 300
Waiting 306
Desire 316
Greenwich Time 325
The Burning House 335
Janus 351
In the White Night 356
Heaven on a Summer Night 361
Summer People 368
Skeletons 381
Where You'll Find Me 386
The Working Girl 403
In Amalfi 410
What Was Mine 421
Windy Day at the Reservoir 431
Imagine a Day at the End of Your Life 474
Kind of Blue.......2003-01-03
When I think of Miles Davis, the word virtuoso comes to mind. When I think of Ann Beattie's short stories, the music from Miles' classic album "Kind of Blue" plays in my head. Spare, taut, controlled, yet so emotionally stripped down as to be poetic in the truest sense. This is fiction that rings like a tuning fork, humming inaubibly to the fragile souls that inhabit these works. Short stories like "Vermont", "Burning House", and "Where'll You Find Me" resonate with despair and, yet, at the same time tremble with a glimmer of hope. Bawdiness and loudness of voice, a brawling style, does not prevail in these quiet tales. But then again Ms. Beattie isn't trying to be Hemingway. She in her own way moved the short story beyong Hem and Cheever and even Carver, taking it to a realm where readers and writers are innured to listen.
These stories are glittering gems........2000-11-15
This book was my first encounter with Beattie, and I must say that I was completely taken with her prose and the ease with which she provides us glimpses into her characters' lives. As a reader who revels in the chance to read writers who are technical masters of the short story form, Beattie did not disappoint. What I did find disappointing was that the stories became repetitive in theme and style so that powerful effect of the excellent ones ("Vermont, The Burning House, "Where You'll Find Me") was ultimately diluted by some of the other weaker stories. Finally, it is nice to read a female author who is unashamed to write about the human heart without an artifial device like southern charm or supposed female wackiness, both of which can sometimes be a distraction and detraction from a story
A Large Satisfying Collection.......2000-07-28
Park City is a big, hefty collection of wonderful short stories from one of our most talented writers of short fiction. Beattie writes with a detached affection for her characters and a wonderful sense of clarity. This is a collection of new stories and the greatest hits from her earlier collection. I read a lot of these stories in the 80s, but I can still remember them. The new ones are fabulous. The characters and their stories will stay with you long after you put this book down.
Relationships laid bare.......1999-10-27
Beattie manages to capture the moments when intimate relationships are at a threshhold, either falling apart or suggesting some new promise. Some of these stories (Park City) are vivid swirls of detail and psychological perception; others (In the White Night) are quiet meditations on the quality and strength of relationships that do, somehow, last. Her characters try to move forward; the emotional complexities of their situations are rendered in a way that makes them utterly real. The stories in this collection are moving, dazzling in their perceptions and organic structure, and above all, honest. She is one of the greatest short story writers of the past two decades, and Park City couples great new fiction with the best of her old work. Like Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From, the range and quality here is a feat reserved for masters.
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A striking new reissue of an epic fantasy by popular Harper author Shirley Rousseau Murphy, featuring a princess's dangerous quest to reclaim her throne...and, of course, cats!
There is a door in an artist's garden: an elaborate carved passageway into a realm ruled by a dark sorceress queen. There entities strange and wondrous roam the Netherworld––yet none as astonishing as the shape–shifting Catswold...
Raised by the oldwitch Mag, Melissa discovers a perilous secret. She has more than one form––human girl and magical cat––and once inhabited two worlds. And it is her destiny to return to a mystic realm of wonder and terror, to do battle for her people's liberation and the crown that is rightfully hers.
A man beset by tragedy, painter Braden West is intrigued by the calico cat who has charmed her way into his studio. But his "guest" is more than she seems, and Braden's very existence will be radically altered as he follows Melissa from the Hell Pit into the dread perils of an evil ruling court, thrust into the heart of a magical conflict with more at stake than he could possibly have imagined.
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wonderful fantasy.......2007-09-05
i love this odd and wonderful fantasy.
I bought this book used and when it was a rare find, that makes it much for sweeter.
I recommend this for anyone that loves fantasy and felines.
What a great imagination.......2007-04-11
I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. It is a real page turner. If you are a cat person you will really enjoy the parts of the book where the girl turns into a cat. Highly recommended.
Enjoyable.......2006-01-08
I needed a break from research reading one day and found this book at the local store before heading to the mountains to read it outdoors. It was the perfect book to sit in a lounge chair in the shade. As a cat person, I was drawn to the cover and the plot was, for the most part, enjoyable. A good, easy read for those looking for something light. Some of the sub-plots meandered a bit, but I figured it was a bit like a cat walking around a garden -- here and there. In the end, though, it was a nice break from the daily grind to read at one sitting.
Excellent background for the Joe Grey series.......2005-10-24
Many Joe Grey books hint at the world portrayed in the Catswold Portal - this provides excellent background information and is an entertaining novel in its own right.
The Catswold Portal.......2005-10-08
This is a great read. It is well paced and easy to get into the story.
I have most of her other mystery stories with Joe Grey.
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- Would've been better as part of another book, had rushed feel to it
- A good Sci-fi
- My Fave out of the Roswell High Series
- The Best Roswell High Book!
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Circle of danger...
Maria: She hasn't told her firends about the strange glowing ring that she found. It seems to be giving her powers -- special abilities that let her enter a world she's been dying to experience. Here's her chance to learn what she longs to know: how Michael feels about her.
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Circle of danger... Maria: She hasn't told her firends about the strange glowing ring that she found. It seems to be giving her powers -- special abilities that let her enter a world she's been dying to experience. Here's her chance to learn what she longs to know: how Michael feels about her. Michael: He feels all alone on Earth and he's searching for a place to belong. He didn't count on discovering someone to care about right here in Roswell. Now he's falling for his best friend. But what he doesn't know, and Maria doesn't realize, is that she's drawing danger to them all....
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Would've been better as part of another book, had rushed feel to it.......2006-03-18
I wonder how quickly Melinda Metz cranked these books out? This one had a rushed feel to it. Near the end of Book #2 "The Wild One" Maria found a mysterious gold ring on the floor of the Mall and the gang learned that the owner of the UFO museum was in fact an alien, the alien responsible for rescuing them from the shipwreck.
Maria suddenly develops, she thinks, psychic powers (and doesn't tell the others at first)The UFO guy tells them the story of their arrival on Earth and eventually helps save Maria & Michael's lives . Maria's ring is from the Alien homeworld, Nikolas had been wearing it, and her use of it has endangered her life in part because some sort of alien hunters are after her. I wasn't too clear on all of this but it seemed to be some sort of telepathic connection.
I've read the first four books in the series now, working on the fifth, and this one is my least favorite yet.
A good Sci-fi.......2003-06-18
This book is an excellent choice for people who enjoy scifi books with a little twist of comedy and love. It is a book everyone can understand and love. Once you get started, you won't want to put it down.
My Fave out of the Roswell High Series.......2002-01-31
The Seeker is my personal favorite out of all ten of the Roswell High books. It focuses a lot more on Maria and Michael than any other of the books. Maria finds this glowing ring that helps her to "see" things. Little does she know that the ring is putting her and everyone else in danger. Find out what happens!
The Best Roswell High Book!.......2002-01-04
Having read all ten Roswell High books I have come to conclude that The Seeker is Ms. Metz's best yet! My favorite couple was always Max and Liz however the Seeker really got me interested in Michael and Maria. They share many great scenes including making a cake together, teaching Michael's "little brother" how to dance, and watching horror movies late at night. Ms. Melinda Metz's great writing brings Michael and Maria to life.
maria with special powers.......2001-11-16
when maria finds a ring at the mall, she starts having visions of
what anyone around her is doing. she automatically assumes it is
a long dormant power that has been activated by her being around
aliens. as her relationship with michael grows, she decides to
help michael and max find their spaceship with the ring. but
little does she know that everytime she uses it, it draws all of
them into danger.
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An Order Outside Time is a reinterpretation of Western Spirituality through Jungian symbolism, including Jung's concept of individuation—an individual's journey from their lowest to highest self—a process documented throughout world mythology and referred to as The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell in his best-selling The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Citing Christ as the ultimate example of individuation, Clarke suggests that only through direct experience of the sacred can a person achieve their greatest spiritual potential. Robert B. Clarke is the author of The Four Gold Keys (Hampton Roads, ISBN 1-57174-313-8, 2002).
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I am the author.......2006-07-07
I am the author of An Order Outside Time and would like to submit the following author's review. I cannot find any other facility for doing this.
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I once had a dream that revealed the royal line of blue blood running from the beginning of Egypt, through ancient Judaism, and up to Christ. This was a line of Holy Spirit producing successive incarnations of the divine Son, what we today call the Higher Self. This line actually runs through what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious, the spirit/soul reality lying behind the physical universe. Higher spirit produces the higher form of the Self, while lower soul reality produces the lower form of the Self. These I call the Higher and Lower Self respectively. Thus in Egypt, Horus was titled "He who is above", while Osiris was "Lord of the Underworld".
The Bible is the biggest selling book of all time. Countless millions have lived by what were believed to be its truths over the centuries, and many sacrificed their lives for them. Western civilisation itself developed from those truths, though by the 19th century, new scientific knowledge was proving them untenable as actualities. and mere belief could no longer be stretched that far. Western man eventually suffered a fall into rationalistic materialism; the Bible, and the Christianity that had grown from its teachings, were as good as dead as far as scholarship was concerned.
Yet all was not lost, not quite. The mystic/spiritualist Madame Blavatsky travelled to the East to study Hinduism and Buddhism, coming to realise that the Higher Self figure of those religions was, in fact, the answer to Christ. Jesus the man was therefore the human initiate who underwent inner processes to produce the Higher Self as the Christ, and figures of the Old Testament were also obviously involved in similar processes. A little after Blavatsky Jung came along, discovering that the non-personal collective unconscious does indeed lie behind the world of consciousness, and that the myths and religions of the world are based upon its truths. These religions have, furthermore, their own lines of development, the Western form having its roots in ancient Egypt and the Middle East.
Undergoing inner processes myself for some years, I too came to recognise similar processes in Middle Eastern mythology and the Bible. In the Mesopotmian Epic of Gilgamesh, the lower and higher forms of the Self are Enkidu and Utnapishtim; in Egypt, in a different mythos to Osiris and Horus, these were Anhur and Shu. The pattern runs right through the Bible; Ishmael with Isaac, Esau with Jacob, Moses with Joshua, David with Solomon, Elijah with Elisha, John the Baptist with Christ. The first figure developing from the lower earth spirit is usually described as a 'wild man' and 'hairy', and while he is the elder and begins the processes, the second figure completes them. The Exodus, actually inner processes, thus begins with Moses and the flight from Egypt, and is completed by Joshua with the conquest of Canaan. Another point is that the fish as symbol of the Saviour runs from Sumeria, the very first culture, to Christ - as a fish resides in the sea, so the Saviour resides!
in spirit/soul reality.
Nevertheless, the processes do not solely concern spirit, for human initiates too must be involved. During my researches, it has come to light that certain biblical figures and their stories were actually Egyptian, even Egyptian gods and their myths. Joseph, 'man of dreams', was Imhotep, builder of the first step pyramid, who in higher aspect was Iu-em-hetep. the Higher Self as Son of Ptah. Akhenaten was almost certainly Moses, as some modern researchers have claimed. Akhenaten identified himself with the gods Anhur/Shu, these being Moses and Joshua in the Jewish version, the myths of the Egyptian pair being almost identical with the exodus in certain aspects. David and Solomon are identified with Thoth and Iu-em-hetep as builders of mythical temples - as Blavatsky points out, Solomon's Temple is really the symbolic 'Temple of the Higher Self. In fact, all of the figures above are concernes in developments of the Higher Self as divine incarnations.
Several books from Holy Blood, Holy Grail to The Da Vinci Code have claimed a royal bloodline stemming from a child produced by a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Yet depth psychology knows that the marriage was between Jesus as ego-consciousness and Mary Magdalene as the feminine anima/soul in the unconscious, the union known as the syzygy. As Jung tells us, this always produces the divine child, first form of the Higher Self born into the inner processes, in this case developing into the cosmic King of Glory, Son of God.
While having its human, historical aspect, all of the above is largely the workings of the spirit through the collective unconscious, forming the true royal bloodline. The Bible as wisdom and truth is thereby validated, and Christianity as an authentic version of the divine drama is vindicated, as are other mythologies and religions of the world. As to the personal aspect, there is the knowledge that each and every one of us returns to the immortal Self when our earthly life is over. All of the above and much more is what you will find in An Order Outside Time.
Spiritual Priesthood.......2005-12-25
"An Order Outside Time" concerns some of the deepest teachings of the sacred heritage of the Egypto-Judaeo-Christian West. Scripture says that Jesus was a priest "of the order of Melchisadek." What that means is that Jesus, like Melchisadek, was a priest by the direct operation of the Holy Spirit, not because he was ordained by any organized religion. Jesus was the inheritor of the age-old secret hidden wisdom of the Western spiritual tradition. Clarke gives us superb insights into that tradition, showing, for example, that much of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Gospels are spiritual parables (and probably not historical). They are stories to aid the spiritual initiate to the highest mystical realizations. I recommend the book to serious Jewish and Christian seekers. Jim Marion, author of "Putting on the Mind of Christ, the Inner Work of Christian Spirituality."
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Over 1,000 vintage collectible 1960's toys are pictured, described, and valued in this 200-page all-sixties price guide. History, trivia, and anecdotes about the items are found throughout. Toys of the Sixties also includes an overview of the toy business in that most creative era, a profile of the toys and the toy companies that still survive today, and an informative and entertaining interview with a former Mattel executive who was instrumental in bringing many of America's favorite toys to the marketplace.
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Scouts' Honor.......2006-03-15
This book is like an oversized, jam-packed version of the quarterly catalog Bill Bruegman put out for Toy Scouts, his retro-nostalgia toy hunting business. It's an oversized, black and white paperback with a full color cover showing lots of great toys. The inside is chock full not only of pictures of 'sixties era toys but also stories. One of the best is about the guy at Ideal who invented Mr. Machine (recently reproduced by Poof Toys). There's also great info about how Mattell came up with so many ingenious toys.
Many of the toys of this era would be outlawed today for insurance reasons. Companies like Tycho bought the molds and brought a lot of them back, sometimes in revised, safer versions. Due to books like this, some toys like Rock 'Em Sock "Em robots have made a comeback. Twenty bones might seem high for this book, but in my view it's a bargain, with hundreds of pictures to pore over, not to mention sprinklings of trivia and Bill's industry anecdotes. Not only that, but this book alerted me to a toy I never knew existed that I stumbled on at a thrift shop. Which is to say, it's a great place to start scouting.
boomers relive your childhood.......2006-03-04
the heck whith the dealers this book is just plain fun i was born in 1960 this book has every toy made for any active boy and girl who liked marsha brady and greg brady , the bana splits, kerplunk, batteling tops , johnny astro , vroom engine you attached to your bike hot wheels, evel knevil i could on for hours the pictures ate in black and white but its ok this is the most wonderful collection of toys i have seen since the sears catalog in 1968 . it tell everyone about this book its wonderful sincerly christian john nielsen
boomers relive your childhood.......2006-03-04
the heck whith the dealers this book is just plain fun i was born in 1960 this book has every toy made for any active boy and girl who liked marsha brady and greg brady , the banana splits, kerplunk, batteling tops , johnny astro , vroom engine you attached to your bike hot wheels, evel knevil i could on for hours the pictures ate in black and white but its ok this is the most wonderful collection of toys i have seen since the sears catalog in 1968 . it tell everyone about this book its wonderful sincerly christian john nielsen
Excellent Baby-Boomer Nostalgia.......2005-08-22
"Toys of the Sixties" is primarily a collector's tool, but in being so has a considerable listing of toys manufactured from the late 50's through 1970 or so. Without a doubt, if you grew up in this time, some of your toys will be listed here- and some toys you wanted but never received. All this said, even though my copy says "4th Edition" and the copyright is 1996, what prose there is, and the ads for additional material seem out of the 1980's. I couldn't find websites or email addresses for any of these catalogs, and no specified method of payment either. I would be cautious about using this book for collecting given the fact it's almost 10 years old, but a lot of memories will come back while reading it.
A great resource for sixties or vintage toys!.......2002-01-02
Love this book. It has been a great help to my business (timewarptoys.com), and for my personal collecting. I wish he would do another! I highly recommend it for any child of the sixties or anyone that loves toys!
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With Stone and Designing a Home with Wood, Heather and Earl G. Adams brought us inspirational style guides to using two of the fundamental materials in home design. Now this creative team has turned their attention to tile in all its beauty and utility. Once merely ceramic, today's tile encompasses glass, stone, and cork, among other materials, and Tile Style celebrates tile old and new with 250 color photographs of gorgeous completed rooms as well as step-by-step installation demonstrations.
This comprehensive guide shows how tile can be used in myriad applications-from floors to ceilings and bathrooms to kitchens-as well as in multidimensional tile designs and mosaics. Tile Style is also filled with practical information on choosing, purchasing, installing, and caring for tile. The book is divided into four sections, covering natural and man-made tile materials, decorative uses for tiles and mosaics with instructions for special artistic projects, and a complete guide to installing tile. Projects include laying a stone tile floor and installing a granite tile countertop with a glass and metal backsplash. An extensive appendix section provides home decorators with all they need to know about budgeting a job, hiring an installer or doing it themselves, and maintaining surface tiles.
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Beautiful Tile.......2007-05-12
This is a great book about tile. It has creative, inexpensive ways to upgrade your tile look and to help enhance your end result. There are beautiful pictures of tile work someone would actually install into their own home. Highly recommend this book for the person who is looking for creative ideas.
Ideas, Ideas, & More Ideas.......2007-02-15
This book has some wonderful examples of tile projects to inspire you to do your own. After I read the book I did my own project and it turned out well. The book is packed full of useful information to help anyone complete their own project.
Pure tile eye candy!.......2006-06-22
This book is chock full of gorgeous tile applications in a variety of styles. I especially love the mosaics. Pure eye candy!
One of the BEST!.......2006-02-08
I have always been an avid DIY'er and a passionate lover of tile, so I have just about every book on the subject. I've been waiting for the release this newest book TILE STYLE and let me tell you, it does not disappoint. Truly an all inclusive book, it covers in great detail everything tile including natural stone, glass, metal, mosaics, terra cotta, brick, porcelain, ceramic, cork and numerous decorative tiles. Not only will you learn the qualities of each, but how to chose, design with, install and care for them as well. The book is filled with beautiful photos of tiled rooms (even the installation sections are full color). And when it comes to the installation sections, this has to be one of the most detailed, yet simply presented of my entire collection. Plus, the projects incorporate the newest setting methods and materials in conjunction with the most current trends in kitchens, baths and flooring such as a granite tile countertop, a glass and metal backsplash and setting a travertine tile floor! Beautiful, extremely informative and cutting edge - a must have tile book!
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Tiles for a Beautiful Home
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There are many pleasant surprises awaiting you as you journey through this selection of the world's most beautiful tiles. Whether you are designing your first home on a lean budget or a hotel catering to the most discriminating guests, we can provide everything that you desire.
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Rockport Publishers, in collaboration with the Clio Awards, is proud to present the 43rd annual Clio Awards. Clio Awards has been recognizing the best in advertising design worldwide for 43 years. A jury of top advertising and design industry professionals culls from more than 18,000 entries and awards the top 1% with gold, silver, and bronze citations. Each winner is recognized in these pages, with detailed design credits, making this book the ultimate resource and reference for the advertising and design industries.
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Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography
ASIN: 1550222368 |
Book Description
Profiling one of the world's finest contemporary short story writers, this biography charts Alice Munro's development as both a wife and mother and a serious writer. Exploring her ability to tantalize readers, the compelling profile details her struggle to balance the demands of her "double life."
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