I just picked up The Big Book of Beautiful beads (hardcover, about 2 inches thick) for $14.99. Plus, Borders has buy 2 get 1 free on all their bargain books.
The book is pretty nice and has about 100 projects in it. Here it is:
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(according to the web site, it's not even available yet, so go figure). Plus, I saw a couple of other really neat books today (using up birthday gift cards, still!):
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(gorgeous! and I've seen some of their other polymer books and they seem quite nice. I have their wire in design book) And there was a huge ($50) book of international beadwork that Kathy N-V had got to get to help her along with her project. Of course, I wrote down the ISBN number and now I can't find the slip of paper. ARGH.