Books with author Humphries

For introductory courses in Textiles, courses in Fashion Design/Production, Fashion Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Interior Design, and Costume Studies. Fabric Reference is a guide for anyone who needs accessible information on today’s fabrics–how they behave and why. Designed as a companion book to the Fabric Glossary, this book presents a complete and up-to-date source of the highly technical basics of textile science, from fibers to finished fabrics. Specially prepared graphics, illustrations, comparison tables, and flow charts make the process of creating modern fabrics clear to both students and instructors. This edition features more on nanotechnology, industrial textiles and other smart textiles and covers practical applications such as care, assessment and ecology. Buy both together and save! Fabric Glossary & Fabric Reference Package!

Flibberty is a young otter who spends his nights dreaming and staring at the moon instead of catching fish. But one day, the King of the River sets him a seemingly impossible task: to serve him a great fish on a silver dish before daybreak. As the moon rises over the river, Flibberty sets off downstream on a journey that will take him far from home. But will he manage to fulfil the king s wishes before dawn? A hauntingly magical fantasy. Northern Echo Humphries s lyrical prose, festooned with internal rhymes and wordplay, is perfectly matched to his beautiful dusky watercolors. They shine with a silvery light, investing the adventure with a suitably majestic magic. First rate. Kirkus

Two young guys from the touch streets of Chicago, grew up as best friends, they grew up around guns and drugs. They had very little to chose from but they each had each other, they also had big dreams of making something out of their life so they push each other in everything until one moves to another neighborhood and starts to make bad decisions. He goes to prison and becomes wild and obnoxious and the other fights off the gangs and drugs of the streets trying to become successful. They would cross path later on in ligr, one with love in his heart and the other hatred. Can you believe the difference a day makes?

After a roller coaster of a year--moving, finding out she was adopted, discovering the existence of werewolves and faeries--Arianna didn't think her life could get any crazier. But isn't that precisely when things always get worse? Forced to deal with the loss of her father at the hands of the creature that had attacked her, Arianna finds herself seeking a bit of solitude only to be swept away to another world where she makes even more new discoveries and must fight her way back to the people she cares for. Find out what happens in this next installment: Another World in Arianna's Tale

After escaping her birthmother’s hold on her in Faerie, Arianna returns to the wolf house and her friends only to come face to face with another loss. With too many memories surfacing in the house, Arianna manages to escape and sets off on her own, trying to find her own way in a world where she doesn’t truly belong. Will new friends be able to help? Or will she finally have to confront her biggest fear and deal with her faerie heritage? And what happens when an even bigger threat, thought to no longer exist, resurfaces in her world? Find out in the last installment of Arianna’s Tale: The Resolution.

At the end of Arianna's Junior year of high school her life is thrown into disarray. After an incident at home, she and her brothers move to her dad's house states away and the strangeness only increases. "Normal" takes on a whole different meaning as Arianna is left to wonder when will things settle down in her life again? And is she going completely crazy or are these "coincidences" she keeps noticing actually linked together? Find out in book 1 of Arianna's Tale: The Beginning.