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Colin Cowie's Extraordinary Weddings: From a Glimmer of an Idea to a Legendary Event

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A little on the frivolous side, but so is the wedding!
Awe-Inspiring Weddings & Unique Event Ideas
A feast for the senses...
Absolutly stunning!!!!!
He's Done It Again!

Colin Cowie's Extraordinary Weddings: From a Glimmer of an Idea to a Legendary Event
Colin Cowie
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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In Style: Weddings (In Style)

ASIN: 1400048729
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Book Description

What would you like your wedding day to look like?

Maybe you dream of a winter wedding, set against snowcapped mountains. Perhaps you would prefer a barefoot wedding on the beach at sunset, with your friends and family dancing until dawn in an ethereal red tent. Or would your ideal wedding be an exotic, wine-tinged Moroccan celebration capped by a family-style Middle Eastern feast? Lifestyle guru, TV host, and wedding-planner extraordinaire Colin Cowie has created these amazing weddings, and many more. In Colin Cowie’s Extraordinary Weddings, he finally shares his secrets for creating weddings that are unparalleled, memorable, and–above all–personal.

Both wish book and inspirational guide, this gorgeous retrospective reveals every detail of fourteen glittering, romantic, and meticulously thought-out weddings. Full of the sophisticated details and elegant flourishes that only Colin Cowie could have envisioned, these real events are sure to fuel your imagination. First, Colin takes you step by step through all of the sumptuous details, describing how he worked with each couple to weave their interests, heritage, and unique elements of their love story into their celebrations. Colin also provides ideas and tips that you can apply in your own wedding, including:

• Choosing a meaningful theme and carrying it through every detail
• Creating truly personal vows
• Making guests feel at home at your destination wedding
• Deciding on fabulous looks for flowers, fabrics, place settings, and more

Whether you’re hunting for ideas for your event, searching for solutions to your planning challenges, or just dazzled by the romance of weddings, you will treasure this one-of-a-kind book. Enjoy poring over these wonderful weddings and learn how to make the day you say “I do” absolutely special–and absolutely extraordinary.

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A little on the frivolous side, but so is the wedding!.......2007-06-28

I bought this as a gift for my newly engaged sis-in-law, so she could look at all the pictures and get into the excitement of wedding planning. I wouldn't buy this for myself, but it worked as a gift : )

Awe-Inspiring Weddings & Unique Event Ideas.......2007-06-27

Cover to cover, this is an exceptional book!! The photos of these spectalular weddings are gorgeous, and the creativity and attention to detail that Colin Colin used in creating these lavish events is incredible. Each wedding is unique and personal. At the end of each wedding chapter, Colin provides the event layout and some pointers. I found this to be really helpful. While I don't have a million dollar budget, I have truly found some million dollar ideas that I can incorporate into the wedding that I am planning. And the beautiful book looks great even when it's just sitting on the coffee table!! Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone planning a wedding - either a bride, groom, or wedding planner! Thank you, Colin Cowie!

A feast for the senses..........2007-05-18

While the weddings depicted in this book are far out of most people's budget, the pictures are stunning - and the words describing the extraordinary events are even more so. This would make a beautiful coffee table book. An engaged couple is sure to be inspired - and can perhaps afford to even incorporate one or two of Cowie's ideas. Stunning.

Absolutly stunning!!!!!.......2007-05-09

This gorgeous hot pink book has everything for a fantasy wedding. True inspiration for making this event unforgetible. Everything in details. I like the way Colin Cowie helps to choose theme first and add personal characteristics of bride and groom, their culture, favorite flowers, colors and food. This book absolutly worth it to buy and would be useful for any big event.

He's Done It Again!.......2007-03-25

Beautiful and inspiring! Great ideas not only for weddings but for personalizing dinner parties and other social get togethers. A bit pricey but delivers!

The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction: Building Blocks

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A perfect resource for aspiring and established writers!
Excellent guide to writing fiction! A Must Have!

The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction: Building Blocks

Manufacturer: Writers Digest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1582974462

Book Description

Top-Notch Writing Advice from Today's Premiere Writers
*From Glimmer Train--one of today's most well known literary journals
*Features advice from some of the most accomplished and respected fiction writers today
*Features an illustrated, gifty package that will appeal to any writer

In this exquisite new series from the nation's leading short fiction literary journal, accomplished authors offer advice and instruction on fiction writing and the fiction writing life that speaks to writers of all experience levels. Compiled from the best of Glimmer Train's "Writers Ask" quarterly newsletter, this volume contains useful techniques, informed perspectives, and inspired nudges from a wealth of accomplished writers including Margaret Atwood, Ernest Gaines, Julia Alvarez, Jamaica Kincaid, Stephen Dixon, Mary McGarry Morris, and more.

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A perfect resource for aspiring and established writers!.......2007-04-11

I put this book to use the very same week I bought it. One of my creative writing students at the local university where I teach was having problems writing dialogue. When I met with him, I brought along my "Building Blocks" book. In addition to what I had to say, it was great to offer him the advice of some of my favorite writers, including Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom and Dick Bausch. I felt as though I was leading him down the corridors of the ultimate English department, and every door was open.

The excerpts are golden nuggets of writing wisdom: short, conversational and enlightening. I'll definitely consider using this book as a required course text in the future. It covers everything I need to address in my writing class: point of view, voice, place and setting, character, description, use of language, dialogue, etc. - without sounding repetitive or pedantic. The variety of voices, perspectives, interviews and excerpts keep the topics interesting and fresh.

As a writer myself, I've found that the book offers more than just "building blocks." I turn to the book when I'm feeling stuck, and when I need to get a fresh perspective on the craft. It's often helpful to remind myself that even the best writers experience roadblocks and frustrations. Unlike a lot of books on writing, this one tells it like it is, while at the same time offering helpful strategies and techniques -- from writing a novel for the first time to paragraph breaks and punctuation.

Excellent guide to writing fiction! A Must Have!.......2006-12-08

I am absolutely thrilled with my copy of The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction! To see "inside the head" for so many esteemed writers is valuable beyond words. The back cover says, "Many writing books offer instruction and inspiration, but never before has one pulled back the curtain and laid bare before you the joys, frustrations, struggles, and achievements of the literary life -- as experienced by more than one hundred accomplished writers." How very true! Anyone who is a writer, aspires to be a writer, and anyone who just plain enjoys reading will find this book to be a treasure. This book is a definite "must have!"

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Glimmer Train's got game

Glimmer Train Stories, #35
Karen Kovacik , Felicia Olivera , Thomas E. Kennedy , Susan Fox , Michael Upchurch , Daniel Wallace , Jiang Qisheng , and Siobhan Dowd
Manufacturer: Glimmer Train Pr Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1880966344

Book Description

An anthology of new short fiction by award-winning and emerging authors, this intimate collection celebrates writing and honors the writer. The editors-two sisters from Oregon-choose stories that are beautifully written, readable, and emotionally affecting. Each collection is also visually satisfying with handsome cover art and story illustrations, and unusual author profiles.

This collection includes a handful of exceptionally beautiful short stories, the winner of our Poetry Open competition, and an interview with writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace.

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Glimmer Train's got game.......2000-06-19

Glimmer Train features up and coming talented writers, and boy have they have one in Daniel Wallace. What a great writer. The folks at the Train have the ability to spot talent, so look for these authors elsewhere for other good reads. This is the new crop of the biggies. Especially Wallace. A++

Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz

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Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz
Campbell Craig
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World

ASIN: 0231123493

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The Second World War put an end to America's historical isolation from international power politics, and so also to the long-standing American defiance of the Realist ideology that shaped Old World affairs. The advent of transoceanic military technologies, now wielded by menacing states such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, made Americans more receptive to the Realist idea that international relations is about fear and survival. The American Realists Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and Kenneth Waltz developed a modern strategic framework that sought to introduce American leaders and the educated public to these harsher realities of international politics. They emphasized a clear-eyed, cold approach to the play of interests, egotism, and the drive for power in world affairs -- a struggle in which the threat of major war remained, in the end, the only legitimate currency.

Yet even as Americans began to accept this new Realism, thermonuclear weaponry threatened to make it absurd. A major war to defend the nation might result in its total destruction; a thermonuclear war leading to the death of hundreds of millions of citizens seemed an unusual way to preserve American survival. This dilemma became central to the Realist understanding of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz. How could a Realist approach to international politics and war be sustained in the face of possible global annihilation?

Glimmer of a New Leviathan is the engrossing story of how the three chief architects of an influential ideology struggled with the implications of their own creation. It offers crucial historical context for contemporary debates about weapons of mass destruction and the post-Cold War international order.

Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction: Inspiration & Discipline

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Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction: Inspiration & Discipline

Manufacturer: Writers Digest Books
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ASIN: 1582974470

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Survey Our Literary Landscape From the Open Window of Glimmer Train

What drives you to write? How does a particular piece of writing come to exist?

In Inspiration and Discipline, the second volume in our Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction series, more than one hundred accomplished authors set aside talk of character and scene in order to address the more private and elusive aspects of their writing lives. In excerpts from interviews conducted over a seventeen-year period and preserved by the editors of the highly respected literary quarterly Glimmer Train Stories and its supplement Writers Ask, contemporary writers offer insights on such topics as family support (or lack thereof), using autobiographical material, and the responsibility of writing--sharing their own personal and philosophical approaches to this most strange, heartbreaking, and wonderful of artistic vocations.

Jayne Anne Phillips * Thisbe Nissen * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Thom Jones * Henry Louis Gates Jr. * Beverly Lowry * Siri Hustvedt Richard Bausch * Charles Baxter * Sue Miller * Ha Jin

There may never be an explanation for where stories come from, but the wisdom, humor, and advice of the writers in these pages will provide you with the inspiration you need to keep your writing life moving forward.

With the Silent Glimmer of God's Spirit: A Postmodern Look at the Sacraments
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With the Silent Glimmer of God's Spirit: A Postmodern Look at the Sacraments
Lambert J. Leijssen
Manufacturer: Paulist Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0809144379

Glimmer Train Stories, #58
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Glimmer Train Stories, #58
Karen Regen-Tuero; Doug Crandell; Mark Wisniewski; Juan Martinez; Paul Michel; Cristina Henriquez; Paula Nangle; Jonathan Wei; Mark Sanders; Susan Messer; Lesley Dormen; David Kear; R.K. Scher; Evan Kuhlman; Matthew Sharpe; Siobhan Dowd
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Glimmer Train Stories, #56

ASIN: 159553007X

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Literary short stories. A feast of fiction!

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A Wonderful Gift Idea!
Delightful, elegant, touching and unusual
A classy periodical with first rate short stories
Great stories that I love to read!

Glimmer Train Stories, #31
Robert Chibka , Janet Desaulniers , Andre Dubus , Jiri Kajane , Brent Spencer , and Monica Wood.
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A quarterly anthology of great new short fiction by award-winning and emerging authors, this intimate collection celebrates writing and honors the writer. The editors--two sisters from Oregon--choose stories that are beautifully written, readable, and emotionally affecting. Each collection is also visually satisfying with handsome cover art and story illustrations, and unusual author profiles.

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A Wonderful Gift Idea!.......1999-07-14

I've been a fan of Glimmer Train since I received my first issue several years ago. Subsequently, I started a gift basket service and now include Glimmer Train Stories in my gift baskets. Customers absolutely LOVE receiving them! For "people on the go," this collection of short stories is easy to pick up and read when you have just a few minutes. It also can provide hours of reading enjoyment if you have more time to spend.

Delightful, elegant, touching and unusual.......1999-07-14

Glimmer Train consistently delivers on top quality writers. This is a journal that truly cares about its writers, and it shows. The stories are carefully chosen, and are unique, original, witty-- intelligent choices. I get excited when I see Glimmer Train on the stand!

A classy periodical with first rate short stories.......1999-07-08

Glimmer Train has fascinating short stories which hold my attention from beginning to the end. The publication itself is quite classy with personal touches, such as photos of each author as a child and personal comments by the authors. Glimmer Train publications are absolutely first class and I highly recommend the publication to anyone who enjoys reading!

Great stories that I love to read!.......1999-07-08

I've been an avid reader of Glimmer Train since Issue 5 (though I was lucky enough to get the back issues before they sold out!) and look forward to its arrival in the mail. I highly recommend it!

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Glimmer Train Stories, #52

Manufacturer: Glimmer Train Press, Inc.
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ASIN: 1595530010

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Literary short stories.

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Glimmer Train Stories, #36
Linda Davies , Contributing writers: Christopher Bundy, Michael Byers, Rand Richards Cooper, Tristan Davies, Siobhan Dowd, Siri Hustvedt, Tom Miller Juvik, Jennifer Levasseur, Deepa Mehta, Karenmary Penn, Kevin Rabalais, L.M. Spencer, Lee Upton Susan Burmeister-Brown
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ASIN: 1880966352

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More great literary short fiction from established and emerging writers. Well-crafted, emotionally moving stories, unique author profiles, and gorgeous cover art--a satisfying collection for serious readers.

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