Over 100 outstanding tatting designs from long-out-of-print thread company leaflets, ranging from tiny coasters to a handsome checkerboard luncheon set. Instructions and photographs of each completed design. 84 halftones.

This is a charming and heartwarming picture book that combines children's poetry with essential lessons about charity, poverty, and hygiene. Through lively and engaging rhymes, young readers will follow the adventures of impoverished Tommy. With colorful illustrations that bring the story to life, this book is perfect for parents and teachers looking to introduce important values to their little ones in a fun and accessible way.

Once, her star was on the ascendant. Now Freya Carpenter is being destroyed by her vengeful ex–husband, and only PR genius Nash Taylor–Grant can give the beautiful actress her life back To Nash, she should be just another job. But keeping the vulnerable, innocent Freya at a distance is not as easy as he thinks. And when he whisks her away to his secret refuge in the idyllic South of France to protect her from her ex and from the paparazzi storm, Nash finds himself breaking his number–one rule never, ever, get intimately involved with a client.

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

It is October 1928. London is the capital of an empire that covers a quarter of the globe and contains a quarter of the human race. The population busies itself with its concerns of politics and government, finance and production, work and recreation. But how fragile things are. What ignorance there is. For there are those who are engaged in quite different pursuits. Those who would see an inhuman power come to Earth that would make such activity seem merely a last dance before dying.