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  Art Quilt Maps - Capture a Sense...

  Valerie S. Goodwin

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  “Working with paint, collage, and stitch, Valerie encourages readers to integrate poetry, memory, and personal experience into quilt maps that tell a story.” —Quilting Arts Magazine 
   
  Transform the places you love—and places you’ve always wanted to see—into hypnotic art quilts. Award-winning artist Valerie Goodwin shows you how to make quilted maps with easy fabric collage techniques and innovative designs based on maps of your favorite places. The book features a large photo gallery of quilt maps by Valerie and her students.Find inspiration in real and imaginary sites, in old maps, in poetry, and in memoriesTransform a place’s essential lines and shapes into quilt designFully illustrated guide covers a variety of basic mixed-media techniquesMake luminous textures with fabric layering, paints, stamps, stencils, drawing, and appliqué 
   
  “She teaches readers how to use road maps, tourist maps, utility company maps, as well as imaginary maps in quilting . . . At the end, she offers three treats: embellishing with haiku, designing travel maps with stones and shadows, and mapping memories and landscapes of families and homes.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Her style here is collage—a blend of texture, material and manipulation—and her theme is the map. Each quilt in her collection reflects a broad range of approaches to the maps she was inspired by. (Bonus: Her students’ gallery is total eye candy!) Delightful!” —Generation Q Magazine 
   
  “This book is bound to appeal to the fiber artists among us . . . This book is a certified spring board to creativity. All I need now is some time!” —The Canadian Quilter Magazine

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  Conversations with Birds

  Priyanka Kumar

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  "Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself."So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North America as a teenager, she found herself increasingly distanced from more than human life and discouraged by the civilization she saw contributing to its destruction. It was only in her twenties, living in Los Angeles and working on films, that she began to rediscover her place in the landscape—and in the cosmos—by way of watching birds.Tracing her movements across the American West, this stirring collection of essays brings the avian world richly to life. Kumar's perspective is not that of a list keeper, counting and cataloguing species. For Kumar, birds "become a portal to a more vivid, enchanted world." At a time when climate change, habitat loss, and the reckless use of pesticides are causing widespread extinction of species, Kumar's reflections on these messengers from our distant past and harbingers of our future offer luminous evidence of her suggestion that "seeds of transformation lie dormant in all of our hearts. Sometimes it just takes the right bird to awaken us."

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  Alaskan Malamute 101 - How To...

  HowExpert, Catherine Thompson

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  The training and care of a Malamute is a subject dear to my heart. It is dedicated to my best friend, Koda, who died of hip dysplasia and arthritis the last day of May 2016. 
  Learn the particulars of your favourite breed of dog before you bring them home. Each dog has many different characteristics that makes them unique. Train them well and with consistency. This book gives ideas on how to train your Malamute to be happy with a crate as a secure spot, how to potty train, how not to bark, and how to stop jumping on people. 
  Also included in the book are recipes for making your own dogfood at home. Dog lovers around the world are sceptical about the chemicals and preservatives that are in commercial dog foods. Making your own dog food at home gives you the opportunity to control what your dog eats and in what proportions. 
  Read the section on Potty Training. There are ideas in this section that might make your life easier. 
  Finally, enjoy your new best friend. Take care of him/her with kindness; treat her/him like you would want to be treated. 
  About the Expert 
  Catherine Thompson has loved and lived with an Alaskan Malamute, KodaBear. Koda was ten years old when she passed away, but she still lives deep in the hearts of her family. Cathy lives in Utah with her husband and is proud to call herself a dog parent. She has written eBooks and articles in many genres over the last ten years and hopes to keep writing for years to come. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  News from Lake Wobegon: Summer -...

  Garrison Keillor

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  Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the summer season.Includes: The Living FlagThe Tollefson Boy Goes to CollegeTomato ButtChamber of CommerceDog Days of AugustMrs. Berge and the Schubert Carillon Piano

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  Telling Tales Out of School - A...

  Jonathan Sale

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  WHICH UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE PRESENTER FAILED HIS ELEMENTARY MATHS O LEVEL SIX TIMES? FOR WHICH DRAGONS' DEN INVESTOR WAS FLOGGING LEATHER JACKETS A LUNCH BREAK ACTIVITY? WHICH ENVIRONMENTALIST WAS EXPELLED AT PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR ATTEMPTING TO POISON HIS CLASSMATES WITH DEADLY NIGHTSHADE? WHICH ADVENTURER AND EXPLORER SPENT HIS TIME AT ETON SHINNING UP THE ARCHITECTURE? Through intimate conversations with journalist Jonathan Sale, some of Britain's leading personalities reminisce about their school and college days, revealing the portents, paths and false starts that led them to where they are today. With poignant and hilarious anecdotes spanning everything from those very first days at school to receiving their dreaded O level, A level and degree results, this book is brimming with recollections that every reader can associate with. Tributes are paid to the teachers who opened doors, whilst others tell tales on those who slammed them in their faces. And all credit to the teachers who were truly prophetic about their pupils. These personalities may be reticent with regard to their adult personal lives, but speak candidly about their childhoods, revealing fascinating insights into the role their formative years played in shaping them to become the people they are today.

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  Kit Kat and Lucy - The Country...

  Lonnie Hull DuPont

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  The True Story of How Two Quirky Stray Cats Changed Their Adopted Human Forever After years of loving the vibrant city life in San Francisco, Lonnie Hull DuPont reluctantly trades her three-room apartment on foggy, lively Telegraph Hill for a farmhouse on a quiet plain in Michigan. She immediately misses the rhythm and the pace of the city, and the isolation country living brings has her longing for something more. Enter Kit Kat and Lucy--stray cats who arrive at the farmhouse a year apart and each ask to move in. The antics and oddities of these two strong personalities wrapped in fur bring a new light to the farmhouse and DuPont's life. Kit Kat, an obsessive-compulsive tortoiseshell, can purr her new human into a happier state of mind. Lucy, the playful, leaping Russian Blue who can nail a bat right out of the air, makes her laugh. From the hysterical process of getting two strange cats to like each other, to the exciting years of watching those cats thrive--and inspire DuPont in the process--this book is an energetic tale of cat and human foibles. Animals enrich our lives, and the heartwarming story of how Kit Kat and Lucy changed one woman's world will leave readers enchanted.

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