Sentences with phrase «shelves house books»

Floating shelves house books and box files in the small study, where chairs from The Conran Shop are covered in faux - suede covers from IKEA.

Floating shelves house books and box files in a small study, with Conran Shop chairs covered in comfortable faux - suede.

Not exact matches

Only days after his father, Terrence, had bought him Bailey's Book House, he spied Bailey's buddy Millie on the shelves of a Lechmere store just north of Boston.

The part of that story that is this story in a messy house at midnight with a loud clock ticking on the wall is what the Greek philosophy books said on that guy's shelf: That more than half a century before the Gospel of John was ever written, more than 500 years before God pulled on flesh and stretched out on straw, Heraclitus was the first Greek philosopher who used that word: Logos.

It wasn't long before the curiosity of the little ones in my house was piqued by this book - largely by recognizing so many of the illustrators from books on their own shelves - Eric Carle, Tomie dePaola, Quentin Blake, Mitsumasa Anno, Maurice Sendak and so many more.

As a general rule, their productivity is comprised of messing up the entire house, destroying the books on the bottom shelves, and causing general mayhem.

I wish I could invite them to the house of one of my great uncles, who used to have a shelf dedicated to books written by «friends of the Jews» from the Roman period onwards.

Even the most avid collector of books eventually confronts the limits of physical space: There is no more room on the bookshelf, no room in the house for more shelves.

Years ago I loved to have all of my favorite stuff sitting around my house, on shelves and tables, dressers and night stands, book shelves and fireplace mantles.

In my new book, the secrets to styling your shelves (as well as every single surface or piece of furniture in your house) is outlined, and the daunting task of making your home look pulled together and beautiful is broken down in very manageable ways.

And, on top of getting enough greenery to decorate my packages, coffee table and book shelf, I was able to have enough to dress my console table, make a few different -LCB- simple -RCB- arrangements around the house and adorn my chandelier.

Open shelving on top are great for housing books and decorative accessories.

I add books to almost every table and shelf in my house.

A house is not a home until you have art on the walls and books on the shelves!

I have enjoyed adding some Fall decor to the book shelves and the whole house.

And then, Liesel sneaks through the window of the mayor's house, «borrowing» books from the ample shelves of his library.

The children will go to the book shelves that house these books when they have free reading time.

Amazon wouldn't come to our houses to remove books from our shelves if they didn't like that we shared the book with a friend.

Hi, I learnt my lesson with Xibris who is under the wing of Penguin House they were over the top with praises but got nothing right they didn't follow any of my instructions for my artwork or cover the did nt edit my manuscript as I paid $ 3500 for and received delay after delay after 8 months which they promised 6 weeks and my book would be in my hand and on shelves, I pulled the plug and cancelled payments through my bank and received all my money back I sent all 9 consultants emails on my termination of our contract due to their unprofessional ism and prying on new authors Plus I sent 9 written termination letters as stated in their contract I now have learnt research every publisher outlet in legitimacy saves on the heartache

We don't all have time to wait a year for a book to reach the shelf, nor do we all want to wait to get screwed by bad agents, bad marketers, or evil publishing houses.

GONYEA: What you need the publishing houses for is to put books on shelves.

If you don't need books on shelves, you don't need the publishing houses.

IngramSpark is the go - to distributor for Indies and small publishing houses because, unlike CreateSpace, it is not in direct competition with the bookstores and libraries that order through them, which increases the likelihood of getting a physical book onto store shelves.

Keep your books on a shelf that gets a decent air flow, not in a closet, basement, or against an outside wall of the house.

That means all the stuff a publishing house would normally do for you — from small things like proofreading and line editing to bigger things like design, publicity, promotion, and getting your book on the shelves in brick - and - mortar stores — that's all gonna be on you.

Plus, your book will be available in the Ingram Book Company catalog, the same place many bookshops order from to put books from big publishing houses on their shelbook will be available in the Ingram Book Company catalog, the same place many bookshops order from to put books from big publishing houses on their shelBook Company catalog, the same place many bookshops order from to put books from big publishing houses on their shelves.

Every traditionally published book will have to be placed on a specific shelf in a bookstore or library — and you need to know which shelf that is before you pitch to an agent or publishing house.

The better version of self - publishing involves the writer producing top - shelf work, and then using professional designers and editors (striking out on their own after careers in the big publishing houses) to produce a book that rivals or exceeds the work from traditional publishing.

The Ghyll Road house, unlike Jekyll's comfortable surroundings at the Big House, «looked dark and rundown in its sunken recess between its neighbors, like a book pushed in deeper than the others on a shelf.&rhouse, unlike Jekyll's comfortable surroundings at the Big House, «looked dark and rundown in its sunken recess between its neighbors, like a book pushed in deeper than the others on a shelf.&rHouse, «looked dark and rundown in its sunken recess between its neighbors, like a book pushed in deeper than the others on a shelf.»

I read a lot and if I had to buy every book I read, I would need extra rooms in my house to shelve all my books!

When we moved here, we rented a house this size in order to finally have enough room to shelve all the books.

What many aspiring authors don't know is that (1) the shelf - life of new books in brick and mortar bookstores is 2 - 6 weeks; (2) traditional authors get 8 - 15 % royalties vs. 70 % royalties for those self - published; (3) almost 30 % of hardcover and paperbacks end up in landfills; (4) the timeframe between book contract to actual publication at traditional houses is 18 - 24 months; and (5) agents are rarely interested in authors who only have one book up their sleeves.

If I say yes to you, the rest will think I'll say yes to them, and next thing you know, to make sure the books I sell remain high - quality enough for my customers, I'm screening which books make it on my shelves and which ones don't, which basically means I'm doing the job of a publishing house now, and damn it, I'm trying to run a bookstore, not a publishing house, so no... you can't put your self - published book on my shelf.

They've been emphasizing vibe (coffee house, browsing chairs) but not expanding shelf - space for books.

We don't have a big publishing house pushing our books onto the front shelves of every remaining brick and mortar store in the world.

I mean how much longer will there even be physical shelves to house books?

The New York Times «The film rights to self - published books are getting acquired even before the big houses can get them onto bookstore shelves with their own imprints on them.»

The marketing plan informs the publishing house as to how you will not only get your book exposed, but display your strategy in how to get your book off the shelves and generate sales.

And I say this as someone who has 19 shelves of bound books and an electronic library of several hundred titles in her house.

When you are going through a publishing house and promoting your book the traditional way, chances are that your book won't be shelved for longer than 18 months.

We can do this because we produce all of our books in - house and we maintain an on - shelf micro inventory for each of our over 3.500 + titles.

As an independently publishing author, you want your book to be positioned along with other titles, published by the bigger houses, and getting your book on the bookstore shelves can do just that.

When you move house, is it essential for you to organise your books onto your shelves so that the new place feels like home?

I have a handful of about five books I keep going back to, which are my favourites, and are kept together on a particular shelf in my house.

Last year, Random House launched My Independent Bookshop, a social network from Penguin Random House designed to be an online space where «anyone can review their favorite books and show off their good taste on virtual shelves.»

Like Sol Lewitt's Incomplete Open Cubes or Rachel Whiteread's negative casts of library book shelves and house interiors, Wulffen draws our attention to the structures and spaces in and around objects (and experiences) that help define their meaning.

With a wife and two grown sons, he lives the classic, comfortable life of a New England professor, residing in a wooden clapboard house in Newton, Massachusetts, filled with shelves crammed with books and LPs of classical music, opera, jazz, folk, and musical comedy.

Books are housed by size to maximize the use of shelf spacing.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Reorganized the cataloguing system, making the process 58 % less cumbersome to perform than before • Rearranged the entire library's books into a «by author» sequence, as opposed to the cumbersome first in, first shelved basis • Successfully arranged and led a series of in - house reading sessions for 6 year olds for a local community school • Suggested acquisition of Braille materials to cater to and encourage blind population to make good use of library services

Two lower shelves can house magazines and books, while the shallow drawer is perfect for miscellany such as reading glasses, laptop and phone chargers, and redundant remotes.