Sentences with phrase «odd books from»

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Zorrilla is a first - generation American from a tight - knit family in the Bronx — her father did odd jobs, and her mother owns a nail salon, where Zorrilla ran the desk and booked appointments.

It always seemed a little odd that I had to pay $ 300 per credit hour to take a class when 95 % of the content of that class came from a $ 20 book.

This together with their odd booking process (your booking through their website is finalized before you pay, making it very difficult to cancel), and the initial trip to Orlando, which was booked as a 10 hour direct flight from Amsterdam, which turned into a 25 hour journey that included two stops and a five hour bus ride from Miami, means we won't be flying with them ever again.

The things she does for a client are cook big meals (including some to freeze), cleaning bathrooms and kitchens and floors, doing laundry, addressing birth announcements, helping with simple breastfeeding problems (like positioning problems) and helping you decide if it's serious enough to call the lactation consultant about or if you can wait for the breastfeeding support group in a few days, holding the baby while you nap or take a shower, playing with older children, fielding phone calls from family and friends, helping look up odd things in the baby book, dialing the pediatrician, and telling you you're doing a great job.

The book is studded with explanations of common but uncelebrated objects — those dumbbells that hang from the undersides of power conductors (to absorb wind - induced vibration); the odd holes in barns (for owls invited in to eat the mice); and the colorful globes on power transmission lines that cross rivers (to alert pilots of tall - masted boats and low - flying aircraft).

In an odd way, Ley saves the book from beyond the grave, as it were.

Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods and they find an odd assortment of relics, but when one of the women, Dana (Kristen Connolly), reads from a book she awakens a family of deadly zombie killers.

Being taken from the second book in the trilogy, however, it ends at what would — in any other movie series — seem like a very odd place.

The revision strikes one as particularly odd, and, yes, it is possible for a detail such as this to stand out as a particularly odd one in a movie that supposes the 16th President of these United States was first and foremost a trained assassin with an unquenchable desire to kill as many of the blood - sucking undead as he could find (e.g., that the movie opens with a quote from the Book of Genesis without so much as a wink).

Neustadter and Weber tweaked the structure of the book to fit the film, frontloading material from the even - numbered chapters (the main characters» friendship) before transitioning to the events of the odd - numbered chapters (the production of The Room).

«Michelle Darnell» is in development over at Universal as is «Cousin Irv From Mars,» the story of a boy and his odd cousin, based on the Bruce Eric Kaplan book.

But thankfully, you're granted an odd, fantastical ally: It's the aforementioned Librom, a mysterious book that has emerged from the remains of a recent sacrifice victim.

Cut - scenes are mostly limited to a talking book and the odd piece of moving artwork, but all in all it helps draw you into the world very well and sets it apart from its contemporaries» limited storylines.

@Celeste, If, for some odd reason, a person can't find a Kindle app to fit his or her device, one of the options from Amazon is to download a book to one's computer as a digital file, from which one can transfer it to somewhere else.

In addition, you'll get Clipping Through, an intense first - person tome looking at a week at Game Developers Conference from Leigh Alexander's unique perspective, as well as Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 2, in which the «odd man out» in the early Mario games gets a well crafted book - length personal analysis from Jon Irwin.

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Despite my pleas, the authoring, editing, and design work for our books is rarely allowed to pause so that my eBook crew can offer observations about why the randomness of certain tables, figures, and odd arrangements of text keep the save - as - EPUB button from making the process simple and painless.

In a move that will wring out more than the odd sniffle of sentiment from thousands of Indian book lovers, Chandamama, India's oldest children's publication (it has been around since 1947), has got an app avatar on the iTunes App Store, and can now be read on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

• And finally, to follow up on an item in our post from a couple of weeks ago, the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year has been been awarded to — drum roll, please — ...

They don't have any comics from DC, Image or Marvel, so I find it odd that Kobo is adding comic book support when their catalog is abysmal.

Does September 2015 seem like an odd month to recognize our best book from 2014, nine months late?

Simon Whistler did an excellent job of narrating the book, even if it does seem odd to hear his voice instead of Johnny's, from whose point of view the book is told and who I am used to listening to multiple times per week.

I receive several dozen books from authors each year, which I find odd since I don't write book reviews.

The shift with KU is one I've noticed in particular, though it's odd because I'll see a spike in sales from some of my older books / short stories and it won't show the «borrow» from KDP for days sometimes, basically until someone passes the 10 % mark.

Alisha, I was trying to make the point that the very first leaf is on the right, because we start books by opening them from the right, and the first page pretty much has to be page 1, making all right - hand pages odd pages.

I didn't try Display ads yet, because I find the placement odd — kind of far away from where I would look when I'm interested in purchasing a book.»

I suppose the inspiration to write my novel came from the publication of my poetry book, after years of writing the odd poem here and there and losing some in the process, I decided to self - publish.

For instance, just because you fly 1,504 miles from San Francisco to Austin doesn't mean that you have now earned enough miles for another trip; rather, the 1,500 - odd miles you just flew have earned you a mere fraction of what you'll need to book an award flight.

It might seem odd, but if you have a connecting flight from one of the states in Zone 2, you can book the cheapest possible award to Hawaii.

It might seem odd, but if you have a connecting flight from one of the states in Zone 2, you can book the cheapest possible award to Hawaii.

His list of connections is extensive and amusing: From a few odd comments Richard Prince made about Bob Dylan's Asia «work,» Prince's own discourse during a 2009 deposition on using pulp fiction book covers as image sources for his Nurse paintings, personal connections between the two and Bob Dylan's instinct to mess with journalists — as well as the fact that this work has nothing to do with the Bob Dylan we know — this could very well be just another staged rebirth of the artist.

Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by art theorist and friend of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's work closely for many years, and whose illuminating foreword begins: «Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and eccentric par excellence.»

«Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection,» was exhibited in 2014/15 and the collection is now part of the Yale Art Gallery collection in New Haven, CT..

A self - described «emotional science project,» Bernadette Mayer's Memory — 1,100 - odd photographs made by shooting a thirty - six - exposure roll of 35 - mm color slide film on each of the thirty - one days of July 1971, accompanied by six - plus hours of diaristic narration that the artist later revised into a book — is one of those conceptual pieces from the 1960s and»70s that have been better known as anecdote than as physical fact.

2014 Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England INSERT 2014: a cultural exploration of Delhi as a landscape for creativity and transformation, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Ruffneck Constructivists, ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA The Drawing Room, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Slow Future, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek, Poland Michelangelo e il Novecento, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy The Disappearance of Fireflies, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon, France And the Trees Set Forth to Seek for a King, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel Pace Gems: Selections from the Linda Pace Foundation Permanent Collection, San Antonio, Texas, USA As I Run and Run, Happiness Comes Closer, Hotel Beauburn, Paris, France Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London, England What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London, England Odd Volumes, Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC, Switzerland One Shot!

I remember a poem by Bukowski: The Strongest of the Strange You don't see them often For whereever the crowd is they are not, these odd ones, not many, but from them come the few good paintings, the few good syphonies, the few good books, and other works and from the best of the strange ones perhaps nothing, they are thier own paintings, thier own books, thier own music, thier own work.

At Yale she co-curated the 2014 University Art Gallery exhibition Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection.

By the end odd gifts from visitors, like stickers and record albums, joined her own piles of books, drawings, clothes and music.

Al Gore's 2006 movie spelled out that odd fragment phrase full screen in red letters, comparing it to an infamous leaked memo from the tobacco industry, and his movie companion book said Gelbspan discovered it.

Which of us hasn't borrowed a book from a library only to discover that in addition to the odd grease spot and marmalade stain there are impertinent notes left by some earlier patron who was either suffering from hypergraphia or the delusion that l'État, c» etait Lui.

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This spring, we said goodbye to a sofa - bed and two reclining chairs from Florida, a large 25 - year - old three - seater, another sofa from England, two comfy chairs, a double bed, old china with chips and cracks, odd glassware, sheets and towels, my daughters» books from university, their test cards from school, their sticker albums and stamp books.