Sentences with phrase «getting stacks of books»

Lake Union books can be bought in bricks and mortar stores, but they don't put their energy in getting stacks of books in bookstores.

For families, the report found that having parents who are role models in reading - you know, they've got a stack of books by their bed and they're always reading — that's critical for older children.

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The author of Small Giants and co-author of The Knack (with Inc. columnist Norm Brodsky), as well as two books with open - book - management guru Jack Stack, Burlingham joined the magazine's staff in 1983 and has developed an unmatched ability to get inside some of the nation's most fascinating organizations.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

I put it in my stack of books which must be read when I get around to studying hell (Hopefully later this year.)

There is The Word that's getting underlined, a Bible in a year, that teeters atop a stack of lesser books by my bed.

I don't know about you, but if all I got for Christmas was a stack of books, I'd be perfectly content.

I've even taken over a hotel breakfast nook when it was not in use and stacked my phone on top of books and a bowl to get the right angle and lighting.

As I mentioned in Asha and my recent episode on media and entertainment favorites, I love getting big stacks of books at the library, particularly because a book needs to hook me within the first few pages or I give up on it (meaning, I tend to have a lot of false starts with books).

When Nora and Gus are ready for bed, We get a big stack of books and read until everyone is showing signs of sleep.

Not knowing what advice parents were getting about sleep spurred me to buy a stack of books from Amazon and delve into the contentious and controversial subject of sleep training.

I want to introduce him to concepts like potty training, or get a great bedtime book, but there's no place to go to browse through stacks of books for that one perfect one.

Now is the time to be combing through stacks of business cards and inputting the info, getting your personal email address book, work email address book, and your cellphone contacts all synched.

Still trying to get through that stack of self - help books you have sitting on your nightstand?

Get in the position for a one handed push up, but at an arms length away have a push up handle (or a stack of books) to rest your other hand on.

That's worth more to me than a stack of books that I have to dig through to get to the good stuff.

And where the carousel my parents gave my kiddos a few years ago gets put in a place of honor atop a stack of treasured Christmas books.

The Jungle Book, Disney's latest cartoon - to - live - action adaptation, gets a lot of things right: It's wildly entertaining, full of great vocal performances by a stacked A-list cast, and boasts a hilarious / creepy musical number by none other than Christopher Walken.

From the very few pictures I've seen that ONE person was not getting what they paid for, there were really clearly massive displays from other authors crowding their space, and they had nothing but a tiny stack of books.

You can start with something generic for your cover photo just to get you started (like a stack full of books) or add (or create) a graphic that speaks to your writer brand.

Plus, my family and I are a little over a month away from moving to a new apartment, and I've got to decide which books to get rid of from the teetering stacks on the floor in my room as well as the books sitting on the lip of the shelves of my bookcases, but not in my bookcases.

Then she handed me a stack of books about knitting and told me to get to work.

Readers will really get the feel of books neatly stacked beside each other, where only the binding is visible.

Generally not a lot, but if you do an event at a bookstore, or get some sort of promo deal, you can certainly move a stack of books all at once.

You're wondering how in the world What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World, by Henry Clark, got into this stack of serious review books.

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I wish on a stack of wish - bibles or whatever that she would get to the goddamned point early on in a book so that I could just groove on the awesomeness that is Megan Abbott.

Maybe my books were bought and buried behind dozens or hundreds of other e-books stacked up on e-readers and never gotten to.

Instead, I organised my own book tour, and, although I got onto stacks of blogs, and had plenty of interviews, I exhausted myself.

I never had unread book before I got my Kindle, and I wondered how people had stacks of unread books.

Her first published mystery, DYING TO GET PUBLISHED, was plucked from a stack of unsolicited manuscripts at Ballantine Books.

Most of them piled up a stack of manuscripts before they finally got one published — and then they wrote another half - dozen or dozen books before they hit the bestseller list.

When they can't get into Bookbub (50 % of the slots are sold to the Big 5 traditional publishers, so it's a pretty fierce competition), we stack and stagger the second - tier promo sites like E-Reader News Today (ENT), One Hundred Free Books (OHFB), The Midlist and Free Kindle Books and Tips (FKBT).

As an author, you get to sit behind a table with a stack of books and hope someone stops by and says «hi.»

The shop floors are dotted with waist - high stacks of hardbacks and coffee table books priced less than the cost of the round - trip bus fare or petrol it took to get you there.

Whereas there are few joys to compare with holding the first copy of your freshly printed book, or seeing the figures stack up as your new ebook whizzes around the world, the process of getting to «Go» can be much more problematic.

We all have that stack of books that we keep telling ourselves we want to read, but never seem to get to.

Meanwhile, the stack of hardbacks and paperbacks on the bedside table has grown so tall it has spawned sub-stacks on the floor; when I get into bed at night, it is like looking down on a miniature book city.

I've been picking up the Previews magazines for years, oogling all the different books coming out from publishers and wondering how long until the stacks of Preview magazines I've yet to get rid of will crush me in my sleep.

IOW, by having the books I wanted to read stacked up next to my bed it was a constant reminder of what I still needed to get through.

All this judging means I'm behind on my personal reading, so I've got lots of books stacked up to read in July.

Got stacks of travel guide books?

This year's stars include the Jeff Koons Coloring Book sculpture in the courtyard; Work No. 998, a stack of chairs by the Turner prize winner Martin Creed; and a sculpture by Richard Wilson inspired by the film The Italian Job, called Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea.

My first standing desk was a stack of books on top of a printer on top of a bookshelf — it was pretty unsightly but it got the job done.

But for someone stepping out of his or her scholarly comfort zone, whether to try out a new idea or track down a historical lead, Google Books allows one to quickly get an initial footing that still ends up often enough in the library stacks.

we have a chair in front of it right now, but when it moves to its forever home, it is going to get built up on a little platform with a fake hearth and get paper books stacked in it top to bottom with the pages facing out.

I remember the «high» I'd get, every Xmas season, walking out of Barnes + Noble with a huge stack of books suited for everybody on my gift list!

«I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.»

I'm intrigued by the titles of the books you have up there — loved seeing what was stacked on the closeup photos so I can get more ideas for good books to read.