Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory by William L. Bamberger, ISBN 0393319229
The story of the White Furniture Company--a century-old family-owned business that was bought out by a huge corporation and later closed--puts a human face on the economic realities of the 1990s. 92 photos, 31 in color. National TV & radio features.
How to Fix Damn Near Everything by Franklynn Peterson, ISBN 0517662000
With the help of this manual you'll soon be repairing kitchen and garden appliances, plumbing, furniture, even cameras and radios like a pro! Over 150,000 sold copies are testimonies to this title's lasting success. Over 300 diagrams and illustrations. 480 pages.
How to Fix Damn Near Everything by Franklynn Peterson, ISBN 0517662000 
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Elleen Gray by Caroline Constant, ISBN 0714839051
Extremely private and unprepossessing, Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) has remained an elusive subject despite her lasting influence. Known primarily for her highly original furniture and interior design, Gray realized nine buildings in her lifetime and recorded more than forty-five architectural projects in her archive, although until recently several of her built projects were attributed solely to her collaborator, Romanian architect Jean Badovici.
After briefly studying art in London and Paris, Gray settled in Paris in 1907 and began designing sumptuous lacquer furniture, wool carpets, and draperies that reflected the sensual luxury of traditional French decorative arts. Beginning in the mid-1920s, and influenced by the Modern Movement, she turned to architecture. Her most renowned project, the villa E. 1027 on the coast of southern France, interprets Corbusian spatial principles and forms and has become an important example of Modernist architecture.
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Elleen Gray by Caroline Constant, ISBN 0714839051
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The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, ISBN 061819424X
In a brilliant rejoinder and an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell"s famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but fully alive, complex human beings. And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy -- beautiful and brown -- gets to tell her story.
Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom...
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, ISBN 061819424X
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Off-Season in the Promised Land
These poems speak to the various ways we exile ourselves from a paradise that is available at any given moment. A young girl practicing flute on the end of a pier, furniture repair, an ancient shark tooth, the deaths of friends-these are some of Makuck's subjects. His short lyrics and long narratives vary from comic to elegiac, often finding their locus in the landscapes of coastal North Carolina.
Peter Makuck is distinguished professor of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University and edits "Tar River Poetry. He has published six previous collections of poetry and received the Brockman Award for the best collection of poetry by a North Carolinian. He lives on Bogue Banks in North Carolina's barrier islands.
Off-Season in the Promised Land
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Priscilla Hauser's Painted Furniture
"The First Lady of Decorative Painting" has already taught more than a million people around the world the pleasures of creative painting, and now she reveals how to turn "seen better days" old furniture into extraordinary works of decorative art. Anyone can do it, simply by following her no-fail instructions. Just trace the patterns and follow the color photographs that illustrate the techniques, from prepping the furniture to adding lifelike illustrations of flora and fauna; from creating distressed and "crackle" finishes to preserving the finished piece with a variety of sealing and trimming methods. The projects include a British Colonial Palm Tree Chair complete with climbing monkeys, a Lollipop Roses Desk, a Fly Fishing Stool, and other beautiful and fun items.
Priscilla Hauser's Painted Furniture
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World of Cross Stitch: 1001 Motifs, Borders and Pattern Ideas by Jo Verso, ISBN 0715309536
Design your own sampler, to capture the joy of day-to-day life and to hand down to loved ones as heirlooms. Even those with no drawing skills can stitch something special with these 1,001 marvelous mix and match motifs, beautiful borders and patterns, imaginative images from around the globe, and attractive alphabets. Throughout, there are ideas aplenty for tracing and combining the different components that go into the cross-stitch: people (from a baby in a stroller to grandpa asleep); buildings; furniture; animals (pets and wild animals, too); edgings, lettering, and bands, plus small spot pieces that charmingly fill in empty spaces. Find inspiration in sample birth announcements, christening records, schoolday and religious life embroideries; and more.
World of Cross Stitch: 1001 Motifs, Borders and Pattern Ideas by Jo Verso, ISBN 0715309536
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