Product Description Born with Down syndrome, Ruby Jean Sharp comes from a time when being a developmentally disabled person could mean growing up behind locked doors and barred windows and being called names like “retard” and “moron.” When Ruby Jean’s caregiver and loving grandmother dies, her mother takes her to Woodlands School in New Westminster, [...]
Reading the Cards
Product DescriptionShort and full of practical examples, each book in the ‘Bridge Technique Series’ takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the [...]
Draw Birds
Product DescriptionThese instructional drawing books have a highly visual and practical approach. With the aid of step-by-step drawings, the authors – all professional artists or teachers – explain clearly and concisely how to use pencil, pen and ink, Conté and charcoal.The series covers a comprehensive range of popular subjects and each title contains sections on [...]
What the Cards Said
Product DescriptionCards of fortune, tell your I story,Answer all I’ve come to asklet the draw set forth the courseof what has been and yet may passAnnie’s fascination with Tarot spirals beyond her control when her readings become reality. As if cursed, Annie faces friends Cooper and Kate with this newfound power — a power that [...]
Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural Art
Product DescriptionInfluential American architect Philip Johnson once mused, “All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” But with just a small swap of a key word, Johnson could well have been describing animal nests. Birds and insects are nature’s premier [...]
The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds
ISBN13: 9780807832790 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Product DescriptionBird lovers, take heart! While the birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow’s The Armchair Birder is here to remind [...]
Dating Big Bird
Product DescriptionSingle yellow maleEllen Franck isn’t in love with Big Bird. After all, he’s a big yellow Sesame Street character-and she’s an intelligent single woman with a fabulous job. On the other hand, Big Bird is looking like a better candidate for fatherhood every day: he’s tall, affectionate, and steadily employed. And right now, for [...]
The Bird Catcher
Product DescriptionMargret Snow is the quintessential New York woman. She dresses the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue by day and mingles in the downtown art world by night, always searching for her niche in a city intent on capturing The Next Big Thing as it flies into view. Married to Charles, a professor at Columbia, and [...]
