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Knitting For Dummies

By: Pam Allen,Shannon Okey,Tracy L. Barr,Marly Bird

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Knitting For Dummies

By: Pam Allen,Shannon Okey,Tracy L. Barr,Marly Bird

An illustrated guide showing how to create beautiful, timeless pieces, whether you're picking up needles for the first time or a seasoned pro looking for advanced patterns From scarves and sweaters to bags, pillows, and more, you'll find lots of projects for practicing and perfecting your knitting skills in Knitting For Dummies, which includes an instructional online video showing you the actual knitting techniques being done step-by-step. Experienced and novice crafters alike can benefit from the book's step-by-step instructions that explain knitting in plain English. For anyone new to knitting, this hands-on friendly guide shows you how to Cast on, knit, purl, and bind off -- the four basic skills needed to complete any knitting Decipher pattern instructions and charts Combine knit and purl stitches with increases and decreases for different effects Create different kinds of cables, lace, and more Read the language and graphics in knitting patterns and charts Increase and decrease stitches and use these techniques to shape a project and create design It also shows you what to do if you drop a stitch or inadvertently add one. If you know the basics of knitting and want to expand your skills to include stitch patterns with more complexity, you've come to the right place: Combine stitch increases and decreases to create lacework Get familiar with Fair Isle patterns and simple intarsia motifs, which involve working in more than one color in one row Practice with plenty of projects to perfect your advanced knitting techniques Learn to add interest with stripes Have fun with fulling and felting Make sweaters, from blocking and assembling your pieces to adding finishing touches like neckbands, edging, and buttonholes Knitting For Dummies includes ten quick projects to make for gifts and exercises to "unkink" your neck and shoulders should you lose yourself for hours at a time in your craft! Finally, the book ends with a couple appendixes showing you more cool effects and a list of knitting software and helpful online resources. If you're itching to start stitching, grab this book to start crafting your knitted masterpiece today.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111964321X

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9781119643210

Cold Weather Crochet

21 Cozy Garments, Accessories, and Afghans to Keep You Warm

By: Marlaina Marly Bird

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Cold Weather Crochet

21 Cozy Garments, Accessories, and Afghans to Keep You Warm

By: Marlaina Marly Bird

Cold-weather accessories for year-round crocheting! As holidays and special events draw near, we pick up our crochet hooks and yarn and settle in to make projects to gift to friends and family. In Cold Weather Crochet, well-loved designer Marly Bird has created a diverse and eye-catching collection of 21 crochet patterns specifically designed to keep us warm. Patterns are easily accomplished by beginner-level as well as more advanced practitioners of yarn and hook. If you're looking for small crochet accessories to make, you will find plenty to capture the imagination--hats, gloves, and cowls galore! These snap-to-make projects boast gorgeous colorwork and clever design details. Those looking to sink their hooks into a bigger project will be pleased to find cheerful afghan patterns along with a gorgeous lacy wrap. Designs are included for both men and women, perfect for gifting. With Marly Bird as your guide, even if the weather outside is frightful, you can curl up and crochet something fabulous!

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Penguin

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1632501252

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9781632501257

Knitting & Crocheting All-in-One For Dummies

By: Pam Allen,Tracy L. Barr,Marly Bird,Susan Brittain,Karen Manthey,Shannon Okey,Kristi Porter

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Knitting & Crocheting All-in-One For Dummies

By: Pam Allen,Tracy L. Barr,Marly Bird,Susan Brittain,Karen Manthey,Shannon Okey,Kristi Porter

The patterns and instruction you need to start crocheting and kitting today! Knitting and crocheting go hand-in-hand and are the most popular yarn crafts today. This one-stop guide to all things needles, hooks, and yarn will give you everything you need to know to get started knitting or crocheting. The book covers absolute basics such as selecting yarn, casting on, and even how to hold the tools and yarn, to understanding stitches, checking gauge, and deciphering patterns. Hundreds of projects, from beginner to advanced, include complete, step-by-step instructions as well as detailed illustrations and photos, and instructional videos online. It includes content from: Knitting For Dummies Knitting Patterns For Dummies Crocheting For Dummies Crochet Patterns For Dummies Get started today and you'll be knitting and crocheting like a champ in no time!

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119652944

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9781119652946

A Hole in the Language

By: Marly A. Swick

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A Hole in the Language

By: Marly A. Swick

These stories are delicate seismographic meditations on disaster and its aftershocks. The characters are survivors, digging their way out of the past, shaken but hopeful. Despite all their tragic losses, there is a pervasive sense of humor, hope, and forgiveness: abandonment leads ultimately to reunion, grief to solace. This is contemporary America--a jigsaw puzzle of fragmented families constantly picking up the pieces and fitting themselves together in new ways to form unforgettable pictures.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380096

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9781609380090

Charis in the World of Wonders

A Novel Set in Puritan New England

By: Marly Youmans

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Charis in the World of Wonders

A Novel Set in Puritan New England

By: Marly Youmans

When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doors in civilized style, but my mother bade me climb into woodsy wildness and a darkness flushed with crimson light and torches …" Clambering into the branches of a tree, a young woman flees flaming arrows and massacre. She will need to struggle for survival: to scour the wilderness for shelter, to strive and seek for a new family and a setting where she can belong. Her unmarked way is costly and hard. For Charis, the world outside the window of home is a maze of hazards. And even if she survives the wilds, it is no simple matter to discover and nest among her own kind—the godly, those called Puritans by others. She may be tugged by her desires for companionship, may even stumble into an intense love for a man, and may be made to try the strength of female heroism in ways no longer familiar to women in our century. Streams of darkness run through the seventeenth-century villages of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Occult fears have a way of creeping into the mind. What young woman can be safe from the dangers of wilderness when its shadowy thickets spring up so easily in the soil of human hearts? Much will oppose Charis' longings for renewal and peace; she must pursue and discover the hero's path to a larger, more vivid life.

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334

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Ignatius Press

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1642291110

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9781642291117

The Throne of Psyche

By: Marly Youmans

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The Throne of Psyche

By: Marly Youmans

In The Throne of Psyche, Marly Youmans sweeps back and forth between what is human and what is other, binding the two together or crossing the thresholds between them. A prize-winning writer of stories and novels, she pursues tales both otherworldly and earthy with passion and formal power in this eighth book, her second collection of poetry. The title poem⿿s narrative governs the entire collection in its yoking of Eros to Psyche. Psyche is the young girl brought in fear to a marriage chamber that transforms into forest as ⿿The little stars⿿ go ⿿shrieking through the wood⿿ and her childhood innocence is ⿿struck asunder.⿿ But she is more than mortal as she passes in and out of time: the child who hears a dryad prophesy, the goddess who sits on a throne or plays ⿿in the arms of Love / As starlight steadies in his perfect flesh,⿿ the figure of meditation and grief who walks along the broken palace walls of home, the bold adventurer who has been to hell and drunk the blood of memory in the place where all she once loved is now shadow. Elsewhere in these poems are other potent narratives and revelations where mortal flesh slams into death and transformation: a woman dances with God, the poet speaks in the form of a dryad, a sister transforms into a fish and swims away, a doll is cast out from home and overtaken by a demon, the otherworldly infiltrates the leastmost dust, and a new mother walks with Death in his forest. Such metamorphoses and broodings on the door ajar between human and other remind us that Marly Youmans is ⿿the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers. She writes like an angel⿿an angel who has learned what it is to be human⿿ (John Wilson, Books & Culture).

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129

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Mercer University Press

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0881462322

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9780881462326

The Wolf Pit

By: Marly Youmans

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The Wolf Pit

By: Marly Youmans

A powerful, intimate look at the Civil War on the home and battle fronts, "The Wolf Pit" is Marly Youmans's third and most accomplished novel. In it Robin, a young Confederate soldier and witness to the horrors of war, clings to what gives him strength: family pictures, psalms, and an old legend about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the Elmira prison camp, the very embodiment of hell. Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil. By turns eloquent and harrowing, "The Wolf Pit" explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.

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356

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Mariner Books

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0156027143

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9780156027144

Catherwood

By: Marly Youmans

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Catherwood

By: Marly Youmans

It is early May 1678 when Catherwood and her one-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, get lost in the woods of the New World. Catherwood has recently immigrated from England with her husband, and they have settled near Albany, New York. Now a moment's inattention on a spring day has turned a short visit to the closest neighbors into a long sojourn in the wilderness. As summer comes, Catherwood travels through a landscape which is as harsh and unforgiving as it is majestic and lush. With the winter months quickly closing in, she searches frantically through the sparsely populated terrain for signs of human habitation as she and her child struggle to stay alive.

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180

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Harper Perennial

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0380729881

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9780380729883

Rosie?s LOVES TORM Down Under!

By: Marly Minchin

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Rosie?s LOVES TORM Down Under!

By: Marly Minchin

This story is filled with thrilling suspense and intrigue but sets the stage for a truly romantic tale. At the tender age of twenty years, Rosemary Kate Geddes moves to Queensland. She settles well into the Gold Coast lifestyle, where she meets, falls in love with, and marries Antonio Gervasii. Throughout their very lusty romantic relationship, the tale takes this poor girl from Liverpool, Sydney, to running wealthy corporations in swanky Surfers Paradise. She develops a strong passion for power, money, and control, and she gets it. She loses the love of her life, Tommy; their son; and her own good state of health. Although this book is fictionalized, it is based on some true life events; all the characters and names, however, are in no way connected to any living or deceased persons.

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155

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Balboa Press

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1452512841

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9781452512846

Evening News

A Novel

By: Marly Swick

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Evening News

A Novel

By: Marly Swick

Nine year-old Teddy is playing next door with his best friend when Eric pulls out his father's handgun and hands it to Teddy. The telephone rings; the gun goes off, shooting -- and killing -- Teddy's two-year-old half sister Trina, who was playing in a wading pool in the yard outside, with Giselle, their mother, by her side. Thus begins Marly Swick's second novel after the highly acclaimed "Paper Wings." As with her previous work, Swick resolutely travels the domestic landscape, detailing delicately and truthfully the effect of Trina's death on the unstable triangle of the family left behind. Each member finds their bonds of love and loyalty tested, and each is resilient in the face of their loss, but for different -- perhaps too different -- reasons: Giselle must get Teddy through the crisis, but Dan, his stepfather, having just lost his daughter, has no such responsibility. Told alternately from the point of view of Giselle and Teddy himself, "Evening News" is a beautifully accomplished novel about resilience in the face of loss -- and about the irrevocable damage that both the loss and the resilience can inflict. "A book that

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401

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Little, Brown

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0759520666

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9780759520660

Little Jordan

A Novel

By: Marly Youmans

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Little Jordan

A Novel

By: Marly Youmans

A young child is found dead on the banks of the Little Jordan river. Someone tries to commit suicide. A teenager runs away from home. LITTLE JORDAN has the weird tension and quiet oddity of a David Lynch film. Told from the perspective of 13-year-old Meg, the town's odd happenings become mysterious and magical. This could be anybody's town, the reader's town. Against the sultry backdrop of a Southern summer, Meg's strange childhood world is eaten away by the caprice of adult relationships, and by the unpredictable tragedies that hang in the valley where she lives.

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124

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David R. Godine Publisher

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1567920292

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9781567920291

Claire

Poems

By: Marly Youmans

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Claire

Poems

By: Marly Youmans

The debut poetry collection from novelist Marly Youmans. Claire shapes the complex stories of a woman, beginning with her second birth through the ice of a frozen lake and ending with an ascetic's winter baptisms.

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LSU Press

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0807129011

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9780807129012

MY DANCE WITH THE DEVIL

An American tragedy, my father’s daughter, judgment versus forgiveness, a life reborn

By: Marly Bergerud

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MY DANCE WITH THE DEVIL

An American tragedy, my father’s daughter, judgment versus forgiveness, a life reborn

By: Marly Bergerud

A Journey of My Soul." Coping with childhood loneliness, fear, and abuse, Marly was immersed in solitude and her love of dance. Decades later, memories began to haunt her and surface the darkness she had hidden deep in her subconscious. My Dance With the Devil is a memoir that depicts an accurate tale of courage, strength, and undying hope. In the face of adversity, from gripping, often disturbing, depictions of the dark truths to immense success, fame, and failure. As so many others have done, telling her story is an ancient way of healing. Marly hopes her journey will bring strength and courage to others on a similar path with a renewed spirit and knowing they can survive, flourish, and have a wonderful, incredibly successful life. Marly's early years were in North Dakota, where she was a trained dancer and pianist. She has a B.A. and M.S. degree and is an educator spanning a professional career of 30+ years as a teacher, a Dean of Business, and a Vice President within the California Community Colleges. Marly thoroughly enjoyed raising a fantastic son as he endured her becoming a published co-author of two dozen computer textbooks. She is a recognized educational leader, author, and teacher of new technologies and has presented seminars to educators at colleges and universities around the globe. At home in Palm Desert, California, the broad spectrum of excellent music, arts, and entertainment feed her soul. In this stage of her life, Marly believes the spirit of philanthropy is an ever essential and socially responsible duty of giving what, how, and when we can. She serves on the Board of the World Affairs Council of the Desert. For the Palm Springs Writers Guild, she served as President, supporting its 150+ writers pursuing their craft and continues to enjoy their friendship and learn from their professional speakers. "In this life, I have learned that writing helps heal, puts the past behind us, and allows our souls to soar." Marly Bergerud

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Xlibris Corporation

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ISBN 13

9798369404232

The Summer Before the Summer of Love

Stories by Marly Swick

By: Marly A. Swick

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The Summer Before the Summer of Love

Stories by Marly Swick

By: Marly A. Swick

The ten stories in this collection explore the intimate dynamics of parents and children, friends and lovers, and husbands and wives. The characters stand on unstable ground and coexist with unpleasant truths: a grown son drives his mother to the abortion clinic; two girls go on a road trip to a Beatles concert with their divorced mother; three recently single women try to purge the past with a garage sale; a father moves into his daughter?s group house in Berkeley. Grappling with loss and disappointment, struggling to become whole again or for the first time, her characters pass like ghosts through their own lives, seeking to understand, imperfectly and belatedly, where they?ve come from and what might have been.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803293186

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9780803293182

The Curse of the Raven Mocker

By: Marly Youmans

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The Curse of the Raven Mocker

By: Marly Youmans

After her parents disappear from their isolated home in the Great Smoky Mountains, Adanta discovers the truth of the Cherokee stories her father told her and embarks on a journey to thwart the sorcery that has claimed her parents.

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292

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Puffin

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0142406961

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9780142406960

Ingledove

By: Marly Youmans

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Ingledove

By: Marly Youmans

After Fontana dam flooded the town where they were born, Ingledove goes wandering in the southern Appalachians, where she encounter her mother's peculiar people, the Adantan.

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Puffin

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0142407046

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9780142407042

Book's by Marly Bird

Knitting For Dummies

Knitting For Dummies

Cold Weather Crochet

Cold Weather Crochet

Knitting & Crocheting All-in-One For Dummies

Knitting & Crocheting All-in-One For Dummies

A Hole in the Language

A Hole in the Language

Charis in the World of Wonders

Charis in the World of Wonders

The Throne of Psyche

The Throne of Psyche

The Wolf Pit

The Wolf Pit

Catherwood

Catherwood

Rosie?s LOVES TORM Down Under!

Rosie?s LOVES TORM Down Under!

Evening News

Evening News

Little Jordan

Little Jordan

Claire

Claire

MY DANCE WITH THE DEVIL

MY DANCE WITH THE DEVIL

The Summer Before the Summer of Love

The Summer Before the Summer of Love

The Curse of the Raven Mocker

The Curse of the Raven Mocker

Ingledove

Ingledove

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