Author: Barbara Fitch
Publisher: Search Press
Keywords: straw, embroidery, marquetry, work, swiss, craft, decorative
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 085532824X
ISBN-13: 9780855328245
Straw marquetry and embroidery -- revives the lost craft of Swiss straw work -- the use of straw to make decorative motifs, trimmings and braids. Make jewelery, pictures, wall hangings, designs for fabrics.
Authors:Chris Magwood, Peter Mack,
Publisher: New Society Publisher
Keywords: straw, building, news, wiser, living, series, earth, designing, bale, complete, guide, mother
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0865715181
ISBN-13: 9780865715189
Straw bale houses are easy to build, affordable, super energy efficient, environmentally friendly, attractive, and can be designed to match the builder’s personal space needs, esthetics and budget. Despite mushrooming interest in the technique, however, most straw bale books focus on “selling” the dream of straw bale building, but don’t adequately address the most critical issues faced by bale house builders. Moreover, since many developments in this field are recent, few books are completely up to date with the latest techniques.More Straw Bale Building is designed to
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Book
Keywords: gold, straw
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-04-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0618056017
ISBN-13: 9780618056019
What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A former nursemaid to the queen"s child tells the boys that the banished queen may have the answer they seek. Danger presents itself at every turn, for the boys are pursued by the Great Barons, who are secretly plotting against the king. Another pursuer, the greedy King"s Grip, reveals a strange story of a little man who once spun straw into gold of incredible beauty for the queen but then disappeared with her firstborn so
Author: Sharon Old
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: poems, straw, tin, blood
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-10-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0375707352
ISBN-13: 9780375707353
In such previous collections as The Gold Cell and The Dead and the Living, Sharon Olds tends to draw her impetus from the sexual landscape. The same might be said of the poems in Blood, Tin, Straw. Here, however, the libido is less invariably at center stage. Instead, Olds embraces her favorite subject--the body--in many different guises: as an object of love, desire, reproduction, and decay. At its best, Blood, Tin, Straw captures effervescent moments with delectable poignancy. In "The Necklace," for example, the narrator recalls a falling strand of pearls that "spoke in oyster Braille on my
Author: Ellease Southerland
Publisher: Amistad
Keywords: straw, lion
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 006072420X
ISBN-13: 9780060724207
To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, Amistad is honored to reissue in hardcover Let the Lion Eat Straw, a dazzling, hymnlike novel that tells the story of Abeba Williams, whose mother abandons the poverty and despair of the South -- and in the process her daughter -- for opportunities up North. In the absence of her mother, Abeba clings to Mamma Habblesham, a woman with enviable reserves of love and hope. Their affection for each other seems boundless -- until Abeba’s mother returns to take her daughter to Brooklyn. As she grows up, her exceptional musical talent prom
Author: Darryl Strawberry
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: way, finding, straw
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-04-28
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0061704202
ISBN-13: 9780061704208
Former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, whose achievements on the field were often overshadowed by his struggles off the field, recounts the highs, the lows, and the lessons of hope and survival he learned along the way. The youngest son of Henry and Ruby Strawberry, Darryl grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Los Angeles, where he channeled his energy into baseball and basketball. The New York Mets drafted him in 1980, and he won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1983. Strawberry became the first National League player voted to the All-Star Game in each of his first
Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Amulet Books
Keywords: straw, last, kid, wimpy, diary
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0810970686
ISBN-13: 9780810970687
The highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level. Lets face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Gregs father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other ?manly endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily sidestep his fathers efforts to change him. But when Gregs dad threatens to send him to military academy, Greg realizes he has to shape up . . . or get shipped out.Greg
