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Chicago Watercolor Sketchbook || Wrigley Field • Water Taxi • The Bean • The Water Tower • Navy Pier • Buckingham Fountain • Chicago Theatre • Chicago Skyline || 8 sketches for you to watercolor, tear out and frame for the home or to give to a friend. Intended for play & pause, making time for creativity throughout your routines. Our books come with a fold over book mark for quick reference and a scan code for instructions to follow if you wish. Pairs well with any watercolor set.

Celebrate the secret language and symbolism of flowers with Sarah Cray's sixth book, The Language of Flowers. Beautiful watercolor, gouache, and ink illustrations are paired with explorations of flora and the messages we send with each bouquet. Allow it to serve as an intimate gift, a personal art piece, or to complement your spring and Valentine's Day decor.

*112 Pages

Every golfer has a love/hate relationship with the game. What we love about golf one day, we curse at the next. We've all been frustrated to the point of breaking our clubs or vowing to sell them, announcing our departure from this infuriating sport only to show up at the course the next day, excited to play again. Golf is a game that teases, thrills, torments, and teaches. 50 Reasons to Hate Golf and Why You Should Never Stop Playing is a hilarious look at this addictive, wonderful, strange, beautiful, exasperating, mystifying sport and the culture surrounding it that people have been obsessed with for more than 500 years.

With an introduction by Chris Rodell, author, columnist, and golf fanatic.

Featured in the Golf Channel.

Make easy, budget-friendly meals with your favorite Trader Joe's ingredients, all from the comfort of your college dorm with this student cookbook packed with recipes for low-carb college lunches, quick dorm dinners, late-night snacks, and more.

A one-stop Trader Joe's shopping guide, The I Love Trader Joe's College Cookbook offers hungry students a welcome alternative to microwave meals, fast food fails, and cold pizza slices. Instead, they save money and eat healthy dorm food with on-the-go breakfasts, backpack-ready lunches, and home-style college dinners, all made with TJ's staples. Recipes include:

- Sloppy Joe Nachos
- Trader Joe's Pad Thai
- Chicken Masala with Sweet Potatoes
- Green Chile Cornbread Muffins
- Monkey Bread with Cookie Butter
- And more

In this 10th-anniversary edition of a college cooking classic, The I Love Trader Joe's College Cookbook is fully updated with new recipes that feature popular Trader Joe's items like cookie butter and elote seasoning. Each recipe, from party appetizers to easy Trader Joe's desserts, has been thoroughly tested to ensure it's student-approved and simple to make, including handy tips for dorm-friendly appliances like air fryers and instant pots. Perfect for college freshmen, budget-conscious cooks, or Trader Joe's fans

More than 100 tasty and affordable 5-ingredient recipes for busy college students

College students don't typically have a ton of time, money, or kitchen space to get fancy with their meals, which means good and cheap is the name of the game. This college cookbook makes it easy for students to prepare fresh, tasty, healthy meals for themselves on a budget, with more than 100 recipes that only take 30 minutes to throw together, and only require 5 main ingredients.

Upgrade from fast food and microwave dinners with a college cookbook that features:

• 5 ingredients, 30 minutes, 100 recipes-Learn simple and fast ways to throw together dozens of favorites like Classic French Toast, Vegan Enchiladas, Greek Pita Sandwiches, Thai Chicken Ramen, and more.
• Kitchen basics-Brush up on fundamental cooking skills with an easy cookbook that includes tips and tricks on everything from using knives to storing veggies.
• A wide variety-Most of these student-approved recipes also include 3 alternate versions to keep things interesting and accommodate every taste.

Equip students with a college cookbook that makes it fun and accessible to cook fresh food for themselves-in college and for life.

Bar Keeps: A Collection of California’s Best Cocktail Napkins highlights the colorful and fun cocktail napkins from California’s famous restaurants, hidden dives, and most beloved bars.

2022 SILVER Winner for Popular Culture, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

Bar Keeps: A Collection of California’s Best Cocktail Napkins is a fun and fabulous tour through the cocktail napkins of the golden state. Hundreds of images of vintage cocktail napkins will surprise and delight anyone who is a fan of cocktail culture, roadside diners, hidden dives, tiki bars, and more. Collector Patrick Quinn highlights some of the most unique and interesting napkins he’s brought together over years of enthusiastic searching. Bar Keeps: A Collection of California’s Best Cocktail Napkins is the perfect book for any coffee table or bar top in town!

A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cook

Betty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes with a retro/nostalgic twist. Eighty percent of the book includes tried-and-true recipes that simply aren’t in today’s cooking repertoire—mainly from-scratch recipes that are hard to find. Twenty percent is a fun look back at some of the cooking customs of the past that may not be worth repeating, but are worth remembering. Features include ideas like “How to Throw a Hawaiian Tiki Party,” and the robust introductory pages contain interesting stories, anecdotes, and artwork from Betty Crocker’s history. Recipes are carefully curated to ensure that they are still relevant, achievable, and made with available ingredients—think Beef Stroganoff, Chicken à la King, Waldorf Salad, and Chiffon Cake. These lost recipes are ready to grace the tables of a whole new generation of cooks.

Ballparks Then and Now is a fascinating exploration of ballparks across America. Packed with archival and modern photography, this book documents the development of America’s national pastime by looking at the fields of dreams on which it is played.

The ballpark experience has changed dramatically from baseball’s early days on grassy lots with wooden grandstands and free admission. The Union Grounds in Brooklyn, New York, is considered by many historians to be the first ballpark ever built, when William Cammeyer decided to use the Union Skating Pond as grounds for baseball games in 1862. When the first professional leagues were formed in 1871, enterprising owners began to invest in the creation of luxurious wooden palaces such as the Grand Pavilion in Boston and Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis. The first steel-and-concrete ballpark was Shibe Park in Philadelphia, built in 1909, which housed a record number of 20,000 paying customers and set the standard in ballpark design for the next fifty years. The cookie-cutter ballparks of the 1960s and 1970s have largely been replaced by newer retro designs that give each park its own unique feel and have re-established ballparks as a vital part of urban America.

Ballparks Then and Now is a fascinating exploration of ballparks across America. Packed with archival and modern photography, this book documents the development of America’s national pastime by looking at the fields of dreams on which it is played.

Coffee Table Book

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•Chicago Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today. A both informative and super unique book that makes an amazing gift or addition to your own coffee table!

A collection of whimsical birds accompanied by hilarious and imaginative descriptions of the bird's unique personalities from the over-the-top mind of the famed artist.

Inspired by a fan-favorite series of posts on Ashley Longshore's popular Instagram account, the artist's own colorful (and sometimes inappropriate ) bird descriptions and maximalist paintings give each bird a hysterical personality and backstory.

Take Muffy, for example. What kind of bird does she look like? Muffy "lives in a nest above her neighborhood's private tennis club. She studied abroad in London while in college and now calls her powder room the "loo" and refers to the movies as the "cinema" and she also calls her tennis shoes "trainers"...she has a mild lisp that gets much worse after her third glass of ros ...her stages of drunkenness are always the same: first she thinks she can sing, then she thinks she can dance and then she thinks she is invisible...during the stage of invisibility Muffy really lets it all out."

Longshore combines her brilliant humor and knack for storytelling with her dynamic pop art style and is sure to have readers rolling from the very first page.

Discover actor and director Ed Burns talking about his 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, a model he’d been dreaming about since his days pumping gas. NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, whose favorite cars are trucks—he loves the wow factor of an International CV Series 6.6. Or Jay Leno on his 1955 Buick Roadmaster, big enough for him to sleep in while trying to make it as a comic. Filled with stunning photographs of the whole cars and of the exquisite details that make car lovers’ hearts beat just a little faster, as well as more than 80 personal stories, it’s a joy for every reader who knows that a car is never just a car.

This book is a MUST HAVE for the car lover in your life!!

For golfers everywhere, The Ultimate Golf Journal is the perfect tool to help track the growth of your golf game.

This classy journal contains all the tools and guidance a golf enthusiast of any level could ask for, from score sheets to practice range records and equipment logs, as well as sections to record local course information, golf advice, and your favorite 19th holes. Now, with everything you need to know in one place, you’re sure to take strokes off your game in no time!

GOLF IS FOREVER: With more than 66 million people around the world playing golf, there’s something in this golf book for everyone! Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced golfer, The Ultimate Golf Journal will have you playing on par with the pros.  

ELEGANT, PORTABLE ACTIVITY LOG: This compact faux leather‑bound journal is full of useful charts, logs, and scorecards so you can keep track of your golf game in style. With 128 pages, there’s ample space for tracking many rounds of golf.   

THE UTLIMATE GIFT FOR GOLFERS: This golf journal and log book includes plenty of space for recording information that will help improve your game. Once filled, it also becomes an elegant keepsake. This is a hole‑in‑one gift for golfers of all kinds!

Forget boring mojitos, put down that tired cosmopolitan, and stop sipping that ridiculous appletini! It's time to embrace Old Man Drinks-the cocktails your grandfather would remember from his nights on the town, way back during the Eisenhower administration. Here you'll find histories and recipes for Old-Fashioneds, Sidecars, Clover Clubs, Rusty Nails, Hot Toddys, Monte Carlos, and more than 60 other vintage cocktails. Accompanying the text are evocative black-and-white photographs of real old men enjoying their beverages of choice-and dispensing such timeless words of wisdom as "I'm gonna die some day, so I may as well drink" and "I've taken an involuntary vow of celibacy." Pull up a stool, break out the pickled eggs, and get ready for a round of Old Man Drinks! This description may be from another edition of this product.

Kermit the Frog is back, and he's revised and updated his bestselling memoir with life advice and inspiration for a whole new generation of fans

Just in time for the 70th anniversary of The Muppets--the perfect gift for graduates of any age

In Before You Leap, the world's most famous frog shares in a funny, heartfelt manner about his life and yours. After telling the tale of his humble swamp beginnings, remarkable career in show business, and about all the amazing people and pigs he's met along the way, Kermit shares his advice on many of life's milestones, including:

Growing up: Every tadpole must drop their tail and grow into a frog eventually--Kermit shares tips on how to navigate change and find your legs in the real world.Starting a Career: Kermit reflects on how he climbed out of the swamp and into Hollywood--and how you can make a big splash in your own life.Finding your Inner Tadpole: Life is messy and can change on a dime--Kermit shares his tips and tricks on reconnecting with your "inner tadpole" and finding peace and joy in the most turbulent of times. Love in All its Forms: From Kermit and Miss Piggy to Robin and Sweetums to Rizzo and his beloved Pizza, Kermit shares his own advice on appreciating all the love we can find in our lives.
Let Kermit's wisdom be your guide on all aspects of life like work, friendship, love, money, and self-care