Wendy: 2322 books
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...
Always and Forever
A Sweet & Clean Historical Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
A Mail Order Bride He Doesn’t Want – A Woman He Can’t Resist
"Awesome Love Story!" -- Shelly Small
“As usual, could not put it down!” ~KJB
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A Mail Order Bride He Doesn’t Want – A Woman He Can’t Resist
The problem is that...
Ghost in the Cogs
Steam-Powered Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Ghosts. Gaslight. Gears.
Welcome to a wondrous age of steam where pirates, rust, and syphilis aren’t all you need to worry about. Ghosts abound!
In this hissing and clanking steampunk anthology, there are moments that science just can’t explain. All the mechanical geniuses scratch...
Far Orbit
Speculative Space Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, readable, and engaging stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun and informative, pithy and piquant—when speculative fiction transported us from the everyday grind and left...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Isabella Cheung, E. W. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Steam engines and mechanical advances abound ushering in the Industrial Revolution while in the deserts of Egypt, archaeologists are uncovering lost secrets.
In 19th century England, an unlikely pair of siblings discover a connection between the advances of Ancient Egypt's architectural achievements...
You Say to Brick
The Life of Louis Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Born in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. By the time of his mysterious death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces,...
by Wendy Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects and...
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
An inspiring true story about losing your place, finding your purpose, and building a community one book at a time.
Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore, so when they left their high-octane jobs for a simpler life in an Appalachian coal town, they seized an unexpected...
Musings of a Mean, Fat, Cranky Bitch
a call center goddess offers her thoughts on work, life, and the apparent limitlessness of human stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Wendy Wishart came by the title "Mean, Fat, Cranky Bitch" honestly. What made her that way? Her call center job, and life in general. Idiots to the left of her, morons to the right of her, and she gleefully slags them all in this hilarious compilation of past (and no longer available other...
The Amateur
An Independent Life of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self-described "eighteenth-century man of letters." Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, describes how her...
by Wendy Richmond
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Combining 24 years of research and insight from her columns in Communication Arts magazine, artist, educator, and writer Wendy Richmond challenges artists to investigate their work through multiple lenses in her newest book, Art Without Compromise*. Her commentaries, exercises, and wide-ranging references...
Citizen Spectator
Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation,...
by Wendy Beckman, Allison Ranieri
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Cincinnati is an amazing place to live and visit for so many reasons. Local author Wendy Beckman and illustrator Allison Ranieri celebrate the city's eight wonders--architecture, art, commerce, food, customs, geography, history and people. With its Venetian Gothic lancet arches and crystal chandeliers,...
Venus in Exile
The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still...