Sentences with phrase «stacks of books at»

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).

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.

Not exact matches

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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 have a gigantic stack of books related to the research for my second book on the go already, too, but I'll share those at another time.

I I had spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of books and notes I was using for a major paper on Transcendentalism, due in draft at Cleveland State University in the Graduate English program.

Even though Monet wasn't my personal favourite — I was more of a Van Gogh kind of girl — I thought the poster classed up the bare cinderblock walls place nicely with my stacks of books with USED SAVES stickers on the spine and the gigantic Windows 286 computer taking up my entire side of a shared desk and so I kept it throughout my years at university.

Most of these books come to me from publishers and imprints with a faith - based focus, so at the end of each week I find myself sorting through a stack of freshly printed titles on topics ranging from biblical interpretation, to racial justice, to faith and doubt, to «Christian sex,» in the form of everything from spiritual memoirs, to specialty Bibles, to coloring books.

If I didn't already have a stack of unread books on my nightstand, I'd love to check out The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose.

At that time the World Wide Web was not up and running, so I had to do the research the hard way — by going to libraries, going to the stacks, finding books — especially in the QK 99 section on herbal medicine — and looking up all the various terms for chiles in the indexes of the books.

We have seen as the concept of need is also very volatile in the NFL: one or two injuries at a position and a solid group is now shallow; you draft to become a contender the sooner, not to field the best team you can for the following season, and if a youngster becomes a top player at a position where you are stacked, you can later trade your veterans, or just have expensive contracts off the book...

He stacks the books on his desk, puts a microphone on top of them — the better to position it at mouth level — dons a headset and starts talking.

I'm in PDX right now at the lovely Heathman hotel, having a «drinkable chocolate» (as decadent as it sounds) for lunch and cruising the stacks of their amazing library of books signed by authors that have stayed here.

At this age, you can expect your child to walk backward, walk up steps with his hand held, kick a ball, say 10 to 25 words, name three body parts, turn pages of a book and stack two blocks together.

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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.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

Stacked bangles, Catbird's monocle necklace, and my Kate Spade book tote add a little bit of charm to an afternoon at the library.

When Michelle Moyle was sick in bed, her fourth - grade teacher, Liz Thomas, arrived at her house with a stack of books to cheer her up — a gesture Michelle remembers some 38 years later.

She gave her students questionnaires to determine their interests and personally selected stacks of books of possible interest to them, then allowed them to read independently — at least 40 books a school year.

I'm one of those people who always has a minimum of two books going at once and stacks of books by my bed.

But the hardest part of the job (at least for me) is narrowing all of these great books down to a stack of 10 or 12 to review each month.

I look at my remaining stack of unread paper books and long for the day when they will be gone.

Selling your books offline doesn't always have to mean sitting behind stacks of paperbacks at a book signing, waiting for readers to come to you.

Sitting at a table with a stack of books and a full pen is generally a terrible way to conduct a book signing.

SCHWAB: I've honestly read so many good books this year, but at the top of the stack?

Nowadays the smell of books reminds me of late nights cramming for biology exams between the library stacks at college.

Then at the back of my display table, I had a stack of books available to make sales.

At just 7.5 ounces and with dimensions smaller than a standard hardcover novel, the JetBook lets you carry a stack of books in the palm of your hand and read them wherever you want.

When I am sitting at my desk, I have a stack of books on my left that act as a lamp - table and a writing shrine full of things that inspire me and have meaning.

Before print on demand, authors would pick a book out of their at - home stack when an order was placed, purchase envelopes or boxes, apply shipping labels, and take to UPS or the post office to send the book out to its end destination.

We've looked at stacks of new self - help books and chosen six of the clearest, most practical guides to help you meet your goals, whether it's a fitter physique or a more adventurous life.

Are you looking to relax at the beach or go on vacation and bring a stack of books with you?

She still says, «It shouldn't be something that you can take up as a hobby one afternoon and a month later, key in your credit card number to CreateSpace or Kindle Direct Publishing before sitting back waiting for a stack of books to arrive at your door.

When stacked one on top of the other, the books at Blue Bicycle Books reaches a whopping 1,565 feet, a drastic comparison to the Saint Matthews steeple which is only 265 books at Blue Bicycle Books reaches a whopping 1,565 feet, a drastic comparison to the Saint Matthews steeple which is only 265 Books reaches a whopping 1,565 feet, a drastic comparison to the Saint Matthews steeple which is only 265 feet.

No cigar, but lots of books: Self - published authors carpe diem at the Twin Cities Book Festival National Book Critics Circle showcases top authors in special Talk of the Stacks showcase

Traditionally published authors wait and wait for their turn at the queue, and then it's months of editing and revising and proofing, and when the book finally comes out one - to - two years later we often find ourselves facing the same stack of marketing tasks as our self - published colleagues.

Here at Happy Self Publishing, we use a system called «ad stacking» to promote authors books on multiple different websites within short periods of time.

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

They provide an added excuse for solace at my favourite local comic store and a stack of new books to keep me company as I cower from nail guns and busted plumbing.

Level four is when I look at my bank account report, and the Prometheus Award on the wall, the stack of letters from the Boykin Books Fan Club pre-order list, and wonder «dang, what am I going to do with all this d-mn money?»

But at least now my newly acquired books don't accumulate in stacks along the hallway due to lack of shelving space to store them.

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.

In fact, when asked about his secrets to success, Buffett once pointed at a stack of books and said:

But if you are determined enough to plow through the stacks of law books, then you should expect to spend at least a a few Sunday afternoons researching applicable credit laws at your local library.

Meanwhile, in «10,000 Mantras,» at Studio 10, Meg Hitchcock continues to use collage as a meditative practice through the reformulation of cut letters taken from holy (and not - so - holy) books.9 Here, the flat shapes of earlier work give way to increasingly complex stacks of letters.

At times haunting in their stark forms, Havel's bronzes are anchored by pedestals of stacked books (also cast in bronze), alluding to the fundamental importance of history and memory.

The collective called Matriarch scatters shells at the foot of a «skyscraper» of stacked books, clouds, stock - market quotes.

At the museum's Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, large - scale bronze works will be on view, including Miffy Fountain (2008), a working fountain that co-opts the beloved children's book character created by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna; a new edition of Sachs's bronze interpretation of a Buddhist stupa, Stupa (2012), created specifically for this exhibition; and Duralast (2008), a Dadaist construction from the artist's series of «battery towers,» comprising a stack of automobile batteries rendered in bronzAt the museum's Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, large - scale bronze works will be on view, including Miffy Fountain (2008), a working fountain that co-opts the beloved children's book character created by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna; a new edition of Sachs's bronze interpretation of a Buddhist stupa, Stupa (2012), created specifically for this exhibition; and Duralast (2008), a Dadaist construction from the artist's series of «battery towers,» comprising a stack of automobile batteries rendered in bronzat Laguna Gloria, large - scale bronze works will be on view, including Miffy Fountain (2008), a working fountain that co-opts the beloved children's book character created by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna; a new edition of Sachs's bronze interpretation of a Buddhist stupa, Stupa (2012), created specifically for this exhibition; and Duralast (2008), a Dadaist construction from the artist's series of «battery towers,» comprising a stack of automobile batteries rendered in bronze.

Curated by Yulia Tikhonova, Founder of Brooklyn House of Kulture Upcoming exhibition at The Center for Book Arts: Brother, Can You Spare... a Stack?