Bound
Bound

Author: Rachel Hazell

Publisher: Kyle Books

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780857835079

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In this accessible collection of creative projects, Rachel Hazell shares exciting paper crafting techniques to develop your bookbinding skills. After explaining the tools and materials needed, Rachel takes you through each project with step-by-step instructions. Different techniques for cutting and folding are demonstrated, and, once you are happy with the various techniques, you will then begin to bind your own books with stitches such as ladder, dash and chain. Projects include The Slit Book, A Concertina with Pockets and The Three-Hole Pamphlet Stitch, which can then be developed further to create unique and personal handmade notebooks, books and keepsakes that are not only fun and satisfying to make, but also make wonderful gifts. So whether you have already tried your hand at bookbinding or are a complete beginner, Rachel's knowledge and passion will inspire you to explore the many possibilities of bookart.

Adventures in Bookbinding
Adventures in Bookbinding

Author: Jeannine Stein

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1610580214

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Each project in this book combines bookbinding with a specific craft such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay, and offer levels of expertise: basic, novice, and expert. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate how to construct the cover pages, and a unique binding technique, easy enough for a beginner to master. Each project also features two other versions with the same binding geared to those with more or less experience. The novice version is for those who have no knowledge of the craft and want shortcuts, but love the look. For the quilter's book, for example, vintage quilt pieces become the covers so all that's needing in the binding. Or if you're interested in wool felting use an old sweater. This offers great opportunities for upcycling. The expert version is for those who have a great deal of knowledge and proficiency of a certain craft - the master art quilter, for example. For this version, an expert guest artist has created the cover and the author has created the binding. This offers yet another creative opportunity - the collaborative project. Since crafters often get involved with round-robins and other shared endeavors, this will show them yet another way to combine their skills. No other craft book offers the possibilities and challenges that Adventures in Bookbinding does. Readers will return to it again and again to find inspiration and ideas.

Bookforms
Bookforms

Author:

Publisher: Rockport Publishers

Published: 2019-01-22

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1631596055

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Brought to you by the instructors at the Center for Book Arts, Bookforms is a comprehensive guide for making books by hand with a focus on functionality in design. Written by the experts at the Center for Book Arts in New York, Bookforms presents all the instruction you need to craft by hand a comprehensive array of historic bookbinding styles from all over the world. Bookforms traces the functional roots of each structure, explains their appropriateness for various uses, and provides projects for making an essential structure for each style of binding. Topics covered include: Why books work: General bookbinding principles for functionality and what we can learn from the past What you need to know for planning a special book or embarking on an edition How materials affect function Bookforms tackles a wide range of projects for all levels of bookbinders. You'll see everything from sewn and ticketed blank books and traditional western codex book forms, to scrapbooks and albums, Asian stab-sewn bindings, unusual structures, and aesthetics/embellishments. What better time to dive into this venerable and unique hobby than now?

Dark Archives
Dark Archives

Author: Megan Rosenbloom

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0374717427

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On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.

Bound
Bound

Author: Raven Asher

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781507511916

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Parker is a wolf, a human-wolf hybrid to be precise. She is a young female alpha of the great Onyx pack, a pack that currently rules over all of the other surrounding packs. Parker is just fine living out her days normally with her two best human friends Harley and Ariel. They had become her pack. They were all she really wanted as a pack until her father goes behind her back and invites some new wolves into their school When Gage, Rowan, Brock, Dillon, and London walk into her life, she had no idea how fast things would change. Secrets and hidden pasts come out. Much needed goodbyes are said. She falls for the unexpected and just as they are about to announce their relationship and take it to the next level things quickly go downhill. Lies take hold as one young alpha male decides to take things into his own hands when he doesn't get his way. Everything quickly spins even farther out of control. Parker's true love and mate are suddenly miles away, taken to the Island, lost forever unless she can break free and rescue him. It takes her on a long journey, one where she meets some unexpected friends and Hunters who turn out to be completely different than what she had been taught as a young pup. With help from friends and family she will fight hard to break into the Island to free her love, but it's only the beginning of her fight to stay alive. When tragedy strikes, will Parker even want to continue on? Will someone pick her back up, or will she give up completely? Only she can decide. Excerpt: "That's usually the way love goes, Parker. One day you hate them and the next you can't figure out a single reason why you stayed away for so long in the first place." - Derek

Bound to Last
Bound to Last

Author: Sean Manning

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2010-10-26

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 030681921X

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Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear—not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its significance as a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable object. Whether focusing on the circumstances behind how a particular book was acquired, or how it has become forever “bound up” with a specific person, time, or place, each piece collected here confirms—poignantly, delightfully, irrefutably—that every book tells a story far beyond the one found within its pages. In addition to a foreword by Ray Bradbury, Bound to Last features original contributions by:Chris Abani, Rabih Alameddine, Anthony Doerr, Louis Ferrante, Nick Flynn, Karen Joy Fowler, Julia Glass, Karen Green, David Hajdu, Terrence Holt, Jim Knipfel, Shahriar Mandanipour, Sarah Manguso, Sean Manning, Joyce Maynard, Philipp Meyer, Jonathan Miles, Sigrid Nunez, Ed Park, Victoria Patterson, Francine Prose, Michael Ruhlman, Elissa Schappell, Christine Schutt, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, J. Courtney Sullivan, Anthony Swofford, Danielle Trussoni, and Xu Xiaobin

Love's Rivalry
Love's Rivalry

Author: Nancy Carter

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2016-08-08

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781498481465

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Absence does not always make the heart grow fonder, as Charlie Schultz discovers upon returning home from the army in 1914. Charlie's family has moved from his hometown of Guyandotte, to a farm in Ona, West Virginia. The girl he was planning to court rejected him for his best friend. To escape the mundane farm life, and the girl, Charlie decides to re-enlist. Set in the Appalachian Hills of West Virginia and the seacoast of Fort Adams, Rhode Island, in the early 1900's, Love's Rivalry, book two of a Christian historical fiction series, continues the story of Charles Schultz. By January of 1915, Charlie is traveling by train from Huntington, West Virginia to rejoin the army, when he discovers a mysterious telegram from the girl he thought he had lost. Mistaken orders send Charlie to Garnett, Kansas, almost destroying his love for the army. While transferring to Fort Adams, Charlie meets a beautiful girl on the train; they part with a mischievous kiss and promise to write. At Fort Adams Charlie finds his place in life which reinforces his love for the army. After receiving a strange letter about the girl who rejected him, Charlie goes AWOL and returns to West Virginia where he discovers troubling news. Upon returning to the fort, Charlie is imprisoned, where he spends time reading the Bible and praying. Charlie's early release hints that war is imminent; but America must complete enormous preparations first. Just before deployment, Charlie receives a letter from the girl who spurned him. What she reveals leaves him unsure of his feelings for her. Charlie worries about shipping out without answering her letter. He recalls his Ma's Biblical advice to, "Trust in the Lord." Charlie is sure that his calling in life and his first commitment is to God, The United States Army, and America; the girl would have to wait. Nancy Carter and her husband, Dave are natives of Milton, West Virginia and graduates of Marshall University. They live in the pristine mountains of North Georgia. Nancy, a retired teacher, is an award winning short story author, who gives God the credit for her talent to write. Her mother's genealogy work inspired her to write about her maternal grandfather, Charlie Schultz. The stories began with her first novel, The Telegram, and the saga continues in Love's Rivalry. "

Boston Bound
Boston Bound

Author: Elizabeth Clor

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781530680580

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Have you ever wanted something so badly that your own mind became your biggest obstacle? Elizabeth Clor wanted nothing more than to qualify for the prestigious Boston Marathon. Dead set on achieving this goal, she found herself bound up in a vicious cycle of perfectionism and anxiety that thwarted her at every turn, despite making significant gains in her physical abilities over seven years. Boston Bound is the story of how Elizabeth discovered that her own brain was the culprit, and explains the steps she took to completely overhaul her mindset about her running and her life. For anyone seeking to realize their full potential, physically or otherwise, this story provides specific tools and a useful framework to identify and remove mental roadblocks.

Dragonsteel
Dragonsteel

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780765360052

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Blood Bound
Blood Bound

Author: Patricia Briggs

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2010-11-04

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0748124020

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The second novel in the international No. 1 bestselling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade. 'I love these books!' Charlaine Harris 'The best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley Armstrong MERCY THOMPSON: MECHANIC, SHAPESHIFTER, FIGHTER Like most people who own their own business, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they'd better be dying ... Mechanic Mercy Thompson is woken at 3am by a vampire calling in a favour. He has to deliver a message to a fellow undead and needs a witness that won't be noticed - and Mercy's shapeshifting abilities make her the perfect candidate. But the assignment turns into a bloodbath and Mercy attracts the attention of not just a powerful vampire, but the even more powerful demon possessing him. She can count on the supernatural community for protection - and alpha werewolf Adam would like her to rely on him in other ways too - but when it comes to being proactive, she's on her own. Praise for the series: 'Plenty of twists and turns . . . Kept me entertained from its deceptively innocent beginning to its can't-put-it-down end' Kim Harrison, bestselling author of Dead Witch Walking 'I enjoyed every minute of it. I love Mercy and can't wait for her to kick some more ass' Lilith Saintcrow The Mercy Thompson books: Moon Called Blood Bound Iron Kissed Bone Crossed Silver Borne River Marked Frost Burned Night Broken Fire Touched Silence Fallen Storm Cursed Shifting Shadows (Stories from the world of Mercy Thompson)