Sentences with phrase «of boxed books»

The difference — back then, if you didn't hit, you ended up with a basement full of boxed books you couldn't sell instead of being 2,996,254 out of three million on the Amazon list.

Here are some out of the box book marketing ideas I have used this year to get my books out into my local area.

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Fast - forward six decades and one of the remaining posters was discovered by a bookseller who bought a box of old books (where the poster was hidden) at auction.

A school librarian in Boston rejected a box of Dr. Seuss books sent from First Lady Melania Trump, saying the choice of literature was «cliche» and her school was not in need of them.

I had a box set of several Judy Blume books, but my mom actually removed this one from the set and hid it from me for a while — which made me want to read it even more.

Almost everyone has a few boxes of books stashed away in the house somewhere.

Following the hoof steps of Purple Cow, Poke the Box packs a great message into a fairly short book.

Poke the Box is really my favorite kind of book.

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

For the Book In A Box Method, we've adapted the positioning process so that instead of serving the needs of the publishing company, it serves your needs.

I tell people, «Give me a box of books and a group of people and I'll create an empty box!»

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

-- this wireless mini boom box uses Bluetooth to pump up the volume on an expanding menagerie of smartphones, tablets, net books and devices.

As proof that the new Mac smell has overtaken the new book smell, Apple accessory maker TwelveSouth made a $ 24 soy candle that will remind you of what it's like to open that white box every day (or at least for 45 to 55 hours).

He keeps a framed shadow box of book spines behind his desk as a reminder.

This is huge because the types of movies that usually only have second big weekends at the box office usually fall under one of two categories: They're either a comic book movie or sequel.

In his 2003 book «United We Brand,» Mike Moser argues that simple colors, such as the eight colors used in the original box of Crayola crayons, convey brands that are «aggressive, loud, or dynamic.»

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partBooks started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partbooks online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

But $ 20 - million toy maker Schylling Toys will also make several products based on the Harry Potter books, including kaleidoscopes, pencil boxes, and windup models of the Hogwarts Express.

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«The gatekeepers can no longer stop people from getting their voices heard, whether they're black, Hispanic, women or disenfranchised,» says JT McCormick, CEO of one of the industry's biggest new players, a company called Book in a Box.

By way of example, McCormick points to Book in a Box client Melissa Gonzalez, the CEO of a company that designs pop - up stores.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Armed with a full staff of helpful and highly experienced traders, NetPicks does not simply sell its customers a box of books and leave them to fend for themselves.

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The company now offers leading e-book field, a curated box of two or 4 infants's books obtainable -LSB-...]...

When we suggested US Bancorp (NASDAQ: USB) to Squawk Box as our favorite large cap, that was because of the operational excellence as opposed to the stock price, which trades above 2x book value.

Their experiences were so positive, in fact, that LaBoda has already booked his plane ticket to return to Texas, where he will again be helping residents of Aransas Pass (see accompanying box for details).

We help you cut through the clutter and learn what you really need — from books, meetings, and guest speakers like Aaron Levie (CEO of Box) and Keith Rabois (Partner at Khosla Ventures).

The book «Darwin's Black Box» makes a very compelling case for intelligent design, but I doubt any of you would bother to pick it up.

(CNN)-- A best - selling book is getting boxed up and returned to the publisher after complaints of historical inaccuracies.

Books like Holy Hilarity help us break out of the box of reading the Bible with straight faces, so that we can see the truth in the text.

The boxes are filled with food, candles, cookies, some of our favorite Christmas books, Christmas ornaments, and numerous other items which we hope will help this lady and her daughter have a slightly better Christmas, and to know that there are people around her who love her and want to help care for her.

(My sister laughed pretty hard as she was unpacking those boxes — let's see, a few paperback books, electronics, a razor, box of Kleenex, baby toys, two diapers, a magazine, a power cord, bag of tortilla chips, a pillow, what else can we cram in here?)

They seem to leap out at him from books, signs, even the back of cereal boxes.

If he tries to do so, he might quite easily be as foolish as a man attempting to determine the pattern of a carpet from examination of a single thread, a picture from a tube of paint, or a book from a box of assorted type.

They encounter a constant barrage of visual messages on books and cereal boxes, bumper stickers, posters, billboards, newspapers and magazines.

This book is about the pain people are feeling because of these confining boxes and because many are now trying to get out of them.

The third of C.S. Lewis» «Narnia» books to make it to the big screen almost didn't happen when Disney lost the faith after the «disappointing» returns for «Prince Caspian,» with its worldwide box office gross of $ 419 million.

On Sundays she carries books of Bible stories to read to the nursery kids and an art project in a box, all the pieces cut out to be assembled.

A largely unknown story outside of teen reader circles, it has become a juggernaut, breaking records for advance cinema booking, recording the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel in Box Office history, and grossing double its substantial budget within a week.

Basing your arguments on quotes from books you yourself don't seem to understand is as valid as me quoting the back of the cereal box except the back of the cereal box usually has nuggets of truth!

Reading Klaus's account of the drudgery of moving his boxes of books and files helped me through a similar process.

So I'm reading Tribes by Seth Godin, which is a fantastic book on leadership that I highly recommend to those of you who like to think outside the box, pursue big ideas, or quit your job and stick it to The Man.

I packed well over 150 boxes of books when we recently moved... and I want to read every single one of them!

I have just been following an out of the box video series by Torben Søndergaard, pioneering Danish evangelist, which has whetted my appetite for a book of his called: «The Last Reformation» which I am about to dig into.

Yale Law Professor Stephen L. Carter's first book, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, opened with the arresting observation that «To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.»

Co., 1970); Donald A. MacGavran and Winfred Arn, How to Grow a Church (Glendale, Calif.: Regal Books, 1973); Donald A. MacGavin and Winfred Arn, Ten Steps to Church Growth (New York: Harper & Row, 1977); Donald A. MacGavin and George Hunter, Church Growth: Strategies That Work (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980); Donald J. MacNair, The Growing Local Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1975); Charles Mylander, Secrets for Growing Churches (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979); Wilbert R. Shenk, The Challenge of Church Growth (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1973); Ebbie Smith, A Manual for Church Growth Surveys (Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1976); Bob Waymire and C. Peter Wagner, The Church Growth Survey Handbook (Santa Clara, Calif.: Global Church Growth Bulletin, 1980); C. Peter Wagner, Our Kind of People (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979); The Global Church Growth Bulletin (Box 66, Santa Clara, Calif.), published bimonthly.