Fate! Luck! Chance!

By Ken Smith

Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The ­Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan's best-selling novel, into a pioneering opera, which debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own words, captured ...    more >>

I Made This for You!

Kids love giving special presents—especially ones they can make all by themselves! With prompts like "I made this cake for you!" and "I made this funny face for you!", children can fill in each page with a colorful drawing and personal message. ...    more >>

Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems

By Gary Soto

For over two decades, the award-winning poet and author Gary Soto has been offering his readers a vision that transcends the ordinary, making him one of today's most celebrated Chicano writers. New and Selected Poems includes the ...    more >>

Cupcakes!

By Elinor Klivans
Photographs by France Ruffenach

What's short and sweet and cute as a button? Cupcakes! And everyone loves 'em! Trusted favorites at picnics, potlucks, and bake sales, cupcakes go equally well at relaxed and informal gatherings or at elegant parties. Here are 50 scrumptious ...    more >>

The Designer's Toolkit: 500 Grids and Style Sheets

By Graham Davis

Good graphic design relies on a simple, fundamental concept: the grid. With the invisible, unifying structure they provide, grids bring consistency and visual harmony to multi-page or multi-screen documents. The Designer's ...    more >>

Holiday Knits

By Sara Lucas
and Allison Isaacs
Photographs by France Ruffenach
Illustrations by Randy Stratton

Cozy mittens, fuzzy ornaments, supersoft sweaters, sporty scarves, and festive stockings—Holiday Knits is brimming with projects to cover everyone on the knitter's list. Yarn-shop owners Sara Lucas and Allison Isaacs know ...    more >>

In a Family Way

By James Calder

It's a parent's nightmare: the fertility doctor who tinkers with the very essence of a child. The Bill Damen series leaps onto a bigger and more ambitious canvas with the filmmaker-turned-sleuth's third case, one where life and death are ...    more >>

Art of the Modern Movie Poster

By Judith Salavetz,
Spencer Drate,
and Sam Sarowitz
With text by Dave Kehr

Critically authoritative, visually stunning, and physically massive, Art of the Modern Movie Poster is the first and last word on post-WWII film poster design. Showcasing fascinating examples from 15 nations, this collection of more ...    more >>

Sunblooms Correspondence Cards

By Amy Butler

These sunny flat cards are perfect for thank-yous, impromptu invitations, or quick hellos. ...    more >>

Cath Kidston Birds Notebook

By Cath Kidston

Sukie Iron-Ons

By Darrell Gibbs
and Julia Harding

With British design studio Sukie at the helm of this innovative craft pad, it's simple to turn any T-shirt into eye-catching, "gotta wear it" art. Featuring instructional text and 30 pages of colorful, scrumptious designs easily ...    more >>

Bloom a Day

Photographs by Ron van Dongen

Nature's most beautiful works of art, flowers have reigned for centuries as symbols of love, gratitude, friendship, and remembrance. In Bloom a Day, celebrated photographer Ron van Dongen matches each day of the year with its ...    more >>

Secret Lives of the Supreme Court

By Robert Schnakenberg

The year 2009 should bring extraordinary changes to the United States Supreme Court. Justice John Paul Stevens is expected to retire, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg may well follow suit. With a new president choosing their replacements, it's the ...    more >>

Sharpshooter

By Nadia Gordon

Sunny McCoskey is the independent chef/owner of Wildside, a little cafe nestled in Napa Valley, where the food is exactly right. When the heir apparent to a major vineyard is shot dead, and Sunny's eccentric winemaker friend, Wade, is arrested ...    more >>

Library of Dust

By David Maisel
Essays by Geoff Manaugh,
Terry Toedtemeier,
and Michael Roth

Esteemed photographer David Maisel has created a somber and beautiful series of images depicting canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Dating back as far as the nineteenth ...    more >>