My Invented Country : A Memoir
 A Captivating Landscape.: Isabel Allende's "My Invented Country" does not pick-up where her previous memoir "Paula" left off, instead it expands on some of the biographical details from the previous book and is more of a deep, dreamy [... more]
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Hockney's Pictures: The Definitive Retrospective
David Hockney as Curator: "The Definitive Retrospective" sounds a bit unctuous and presumptuous for a book of selected paintings from an artist's enormous output, but when the artist himself makes the title, we pay attention. This is a splendid [... more]
$45.00
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Little Stories
Little Stories: Eleven Musings on the Fragility of Life: Jeff Roberts is an author to watch. His first book, LITTLE STORIES, a compilation of works written while an undergraduate at University of Iowa, is such a rich literary experience for the reader [... more]
$21.95
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Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey
Definitely the Prettiest Tao Te Ching: I have come to have a fondness and deep appreciation for Mitchell's work and choices of subjects. I bought this translation because of high praise for it hidden in one of Jim Harrison's poems. This version is, [... more]
$14.95
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Little Spells
'Everything looks better in a poem...': LITTLE SPELLS is a book of poems that is just what its title suggests: observations of the ordinary made extraordinary in the gifted mind and pen of Emma Trelles. In this collection of 22 poems Trelles manages to [... more]
$9.99
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Art Invention House
The House is Not only a Home, It is Art!: Michael Webb and Rizzoli have done it again. Since their last highly successful BRAVE NEW HOUSES: Adventures in Southern California Living book in 2003 Webb has pushed the edge of architecture and design and the [... more]
$75.00
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Greene & Greene
Beautiful, Unique Photos: I own several other books about the Greene brothers but this one is my favorite. I am a woodworker that makes a lot of furniture. And this book provides lots of photos regarding the furniture. In fact, at the end, there is a [... more]
$50.00
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Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond
A Very Important Book and A Very Important Exhibition: Art Informs Politics: Each year there are increasing numbers of fine 'catalogues', beautifully designed and illustrated and written to accompany museum and gallery exhibitions. That major book [... more]
$60.00
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Dead Boys: Stories
Raw, Microscopically Examined Los Angeles: Richard Lange has a voice, at times rasty, at times corrosive, and at time tenderly longing for something better than what life has dealt him. And that 'voice' he places in the first person narrative in each of [... more]
$21.99
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On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay
'To be human has growing old at its end': Robert Creeley died last year, an event he expected and understood as well as any poet ever has. This collection of his last writings is a treasure to those of us who fell under his inspiring and straightforward [... more]
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The Empty Carousel a Cunsumer's Guide to Checked and ...
A very handy booklet on how to protect your stuff while travelling by air: If you have spent any amount of time traveling by air you have probably experienced that sick feeling that comes when all the bags have finished coming onto the carousel and yours [... more]
$12.95
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In Camera: Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the ...
A fascinating exploration of photography and painting: "In Camera" is one of the most interesting books on Francis Bacon, one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, ever published for several reasons: First, it takes good advantage of [... more]
$39.95
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