![]() ![]() ![]() With Anna?s experience teaching beginners, she makes each step easy to follow so that your final piece of art will be frame-worthy. Each project begins with instructions for a simple sketch, along with step-by-step guidelines for painting. Anna covers basic watercolor techniques, along with tips on how to create just the right shade when mixing. Projects include: a foggy forest, a mountain landscape, sunflowers, and colorful birds. From landscapes and galaxies to flowers, cakes and animals?15-Minute Watercolor Masterpieces offers a wide variety. Even if you have a busy schedule, there is still time to relax the mind and build creativity with 15-minute projects. About 15-Minute Watercolor Masterpieces: Createįrom the Back Cover Anna?s philosophy as a watercolor teacher is that painting and sketching are for everyone. ![]()
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![]() Please note: Colors you see on your monitor may differ slightly from the real colors of the print. I will send you a tracking number when your package has shipped. The scrolls are shipped priority and express mail after I got payment. Usually takes 1-4 weeks to come from Europe. Discover more about Fennbirn and the three queens in the thrilling start to the quartet, Three Dark Crowns, and its sequel One Dark Throne. Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. Please contact me if you would like a scroll in a different size or a map without the wood to frame it Kendare Blakes Two Dark Reigns is the heart-stopping third book in the bestselling Three Dark Crowns series. 1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake returns with the highly anticipated third book in the Three Dark Crowns series And while Arsinoe, Mirabella, and Katharine all have their own scores to settle, there is another queen stirring things up on Fennbirn Island. 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Her concerns about her older brother Andy intensify-even though he shows up to surprise her in Texas.Īnd if there's one place in the world that has weather to rival Michigan's, it's Texas. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Chasing Helicity: Through the Storm (Volume 3). ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Her responsibilities at Mia's Aunt Suze's beachfront bed and breakfast are pretty simple and leave her lots of time to enjoy hunting for sea glass, sunbathing, and exploring a summer romance.īut Helicity comes by her name honestly- helicity means to spin-and her troubles from home follow her south. Chasing Helicity: Through the Storm (Volume 3) - Ebook written by Ginger Zee. When Helicity Dunlap flies to Texas to spend time with her best friend Mia, she hopes to leave the tragedies of the devastating tornado and flash flood back in Michigan-at least for a little while. ![]() ![]() ![]() No one, not even her daughter Ruth, knows her real identity. She is now Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow, living in a picturesque Cotswold village. ![]() Three decades on and Eva has buried her dangerous history. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is traveling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. He also has a mysterious connection to Kolia, Eva's murdered brother. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. RESTLESS by William Boyd is now a two-part movie starring Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, and Rufus Sewell, airing on the BBC in the UK and on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. ![]() ![]() Now elevated to a deluxe slipcased pair of hardcovers., these famed stories-''Ghost World, '' ''Art School Confidential, '' and ''Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron'' among them-can be enjoyed in the context of Clowes's development into a master cartoonist-Heidi MacDonald The feeble, self-deluded, and desperate were Clowes''''s early targets, but his worldview soon became less misanthropic and more painfully observant. When I first encountered these acerbic, grotesque, empathetic stories, they were part of a 'comic book' that eviscerated the medium. The packaging is super thoughtful and thought out, and of course the comics are great.-Tom SpurgeonĬlowes offset cynicism with sympathy as he cast an outsider's eye on members of society some might classify as 'the dregs.' As the anthology developed, Clowes proved himself a master of the short story in comics form.-Jake Austen This is almost certainly one of the half-dozen must-haves of the year, the comic-book formatted issues of one of the great series of all time, featuring the work of Daniel Clowes. ![]() ![]() His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass: "Northern Lights" WITH " The Subtle Knife" AND " The Amber Spyglass" (His Dark Materials S.).His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (special edition photographed by Rankin): 3.His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass Classic Art Edition. ![]() Amber Spyglass: the award-winning, internationally bestselling, now full-colour illustrated edition: 3 (His Dark Materials).His Dark Materials: Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (Everyman's Library CLASSICS).His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass.His Dark Materials 3-Book Paperback Boxed Set: The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass.His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Book 3).The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3). ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power becomes easier to grasp, and the only option left is to get to work.” He says that by understanding the nature of habits we can influence group behavior, turning companies into profit makers and ensuring the success of social movements. Instead with actual real-life examples and easy to understand graphics it showed us how our habits are formed in our mind and how habits just happen without us purposely conducting them.ĭuhigg says, “Once you understand that habits can change you have the freedom - and the responsibility - to remake them. I was impressed that it did not go too deep our above and over our heads. It was an easy read that offered real life tips, practical language and impactful examples.Īs an executive with an organization in the neuroscience field I found it interesting through the first part of the book that dove into the science of how our brain forms habits. This was not a self-help book or mind-altering transformation read. This book uses actual people and cases to talk about the science and formation of our habits, how we can change them and how they impact our lives. The Power of Habit Why we do What we do in Life and Business ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Charlie is by no means the typical cowboy hero. The struggle made them fiercely independent, a trait personified in Charlie’s persistence throughout the seven dry years, his refusal to accept defeat, his opposition to federal aid programs and their inevitable bureaucratic regulations, his determination to stay on the land he loves and respects even as he suffers with that land. By that time, Charlie Flagg, the central character of this novel, was one of a dying breed of men who wrested their living from the harsh land of West Texas. In the 1950s, West Texas suffered the longest drought in the memory of most men then living. ![]() ![]() ![]() What is missing is a wider sense of what these people are trying to protect themselves from. ![]() The novel is nicely poised between the intellectual and the commercial, and is an enjoyable page-turner. People remembering or experiencing their own twenties will feel many pangs of recognition at her dramatic depiction of how the ferment of lust, ambition, sympathy and silliness continues well after the teenage years. Whitehouse has already garnered praise from masters of suspense. Only Jo, shy and asthmatic, senses anything sinister about the place, which is exquisitely furnished and painted with a scene of Zeus surrounded by gods. On New Year's Eve, Lucas's five friends – Jo, Danny, Rachel, Martha and Michael, plus Rachel's new boyfriend Greg – come down to party and inspect the house. A classics degree at Oxford has introduced her to her best friend, Lucas, who has just inherited a "Cotswold-stone pile" from his glamorous art dealer uncle, Patrick. Jo, the narrator, is the daughter of two English teachers. Lucie Whitehouse's debut novel is the most recent of this genre. ![]() Ever since Brideshead Revisited, novels about "framily" (friends who replace family) formed at an elite university have abounded both here and in the US, with Donna Tartt's The Secret History as a kind of apogee. The family, as the Greeks knew well, is the source of all the best drama, but modern fiction tends to locate this in friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the arrival of his former captain,and lover,on the scene of the disastrous mission, Alfie is torn between the security of his past and the uncertain promise of a future with the straight-laced John. But the darker secret he keeps is his growing attraction for his commanding officer,a secret punishable by death. ![]() Alfie knows their mission is futile, and that their superiors back in England will use the demise of this crew as impetus for war with the Ottoman Empire. He’s determined to make a success of their first mission, and hopes the well-liked lieutenant Alfred Donwell will stand by his side as he leads his new crew into battle: stopping the slave trade off the coast of Algiers. 1762, The Georgian Age of Sail: For his first command, John Cavendish is given a ship,the HMS Meteor ,and a crew, both in need of repair and discipline. ![]() |