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Title: Beyond the Fringe
Author: Alan Bennett
Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. It played in Britain's West End and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s, and is widely regarded as seminal to the rise of satire in 1960s Britain.

Title: Contemplation
Author: Franz Kafka
Contemplation, Kafka's first published book (1913), was one of the few to appear in his lifetime. Composed of eighteen short prose poems, the book as a whole displays the full range of Kafka's compact metaphorical style. In this new translation, Blahut has been faithful to the original German while rendering it in a fresh, contemporary English. This edition is complimented by eighteen black & white illustrations, attesting to the lasting inspiration of Kafka's prose.

Title: Creating Inner Harmony: Using Your Voice and Music to Heal
Author: Don Campbell
Whether we sing, hum, or just inwardly Ooh and Aah, our voices are ideal for expressing emotions, releasing stress, awakening energy, or just exploring the world of creativity. This book Don Campbell is a five-day journey into the powerful inner world of vibration. Each chapter is focused on a simple sound and a clear image that will bring you into harmony.

Title: Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau and Bryant
Author: Jane D. Eberwein
A collection of the works of five American poets arranged chronologically from the mid-seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, and including historical and critical introductions to each poet.

Title: Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt
Author: Megan Nicolay
Make it yours. This inspirational guide with DIY attitude has everything you need to know about the world’s great T-shirt: how to cut it, sew it, deconstruct it, reconstruct it, and best of all, transform it.

Title: Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Last Stand takes readers from the tallgrass prairies of Kansas to the Arctic tundra of Alaska to the deserts of the Southwest and bears passionate witness to our last wildernesses, reminding us why they must be preserved.

Title: Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers
Author: Christopher Grey
Time-tested lighting strategies that will improve the quality of a portrait are detailed in this book for beginning photographers. Terminology used by industry pros is explained, the equipment needed to create professional results is outlined, and the unique role that each element of the lighting setup plays in the studio is explored.

Title: New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning
Author: Andres Duany
Patterned on The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, The New Civic Art, with 1,200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1,000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important recent trends as well as time-honored precedents. It includes information drawn from over 200 international sources. Information has been selected to make this volume the essential encyclopedic reference and textbook for decades to come.

Title: PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
Author: Frank Warren
In PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, author Frank Warren has put together a full color compilation of some of postcards that takes the reader through the entire spectrum of emotion. Although some cards are obviously grouped by subject or other criteria, each card is a complete story that evokes anything from pity and despair to outright hilarity.

Title: The Collected Poems
Author: Sylvia Plath
Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.

Title: The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
Author: Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby, the best-selling Photoshop author in the world today, once again takes this book to a whole new level as he uncovers the latest, most important and most exciting new Adobe Photoshop CS2 techniques for digital photographers.

Title: The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers
Author: Scott Kelby
Are you ready for an Elements book that breaks all the rules–again? Like the best-selling former edition, The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s rarely done–it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly how to do it. It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever done–it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why.

Title: Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera
Author: Bryan Peterson
For serious amateur photographers who already shoot perfectly focused, accurately exposed images but want to be more creative with a camera, here’s the book to consult. More than seventy techniques, both popular and less-familiar approaches, are covered in detail, including advanced exposure, bounced flash and candlelight, infrared, multiple images, soft-focus effects, unusual vantage points, zooming, and other carefully chosen ways to enhance photographs.

Title: Writing Home
Author: Alan Bennett
Writing Home brings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play...