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Going Rogue
Stephanie Plum breaks the rules, flirts with disaster, and shows who’s boss in this “fast and fun” (Publishers Weekly) thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.
Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn’t shown up.
Stephanie’s worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie’s abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange for a mysterious coin that a recently murdered man left as collateral for his bail. Unfortunately, this coin, which should be in the office—just like Connie—is nowhere to be found.
The quest to discover the coin, learn its value, and save Connie will require the help of Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur, her best pal Lula, her boyfriend Morelli, and hunky security expert Ranger. As they get closer to unraveling the reasons behind Connie’s kidnapping, Connie’s captor grows more threatening and soon Stephanie has no choice but to throw caution to the wind, follow her instincts, and go rogue.
Full of surprises, thrills, and humor, Going Rogue reveals a new side of Stephanie Plum, and shows Janet Evanovich at her scorching, riotous best. -
How to Draw Anime
How to draw Anime
Learn to draw Anime today with one of the best how to draw Anime book currently on Amazon.
Learn to Draw Anime
Does your child, tween, or teen love Anime and drawing Anime? This book will teach them in an easy way how to draw Anime of all kinds. It starts with the basics and teaches them step by step the process of drawing Anime in a fun way.
This book will teach your child how to draw, step by step, with the easiest approach possible...by using simple shapes. Each tutorial makes learning how to draw Anime as simple as possible.
Joseph Stevenson has been teaching kids how to draw for almost ten years now, and his drawing techniques really work! With this no-tears strategy, learning how to draw is fun for children as young as 5 years old, but also works for adults and teens. Learning to draw Anime is fun for kids, but even more fun when it comes easy to them.
This book does just that...makes drawing fun and easy for everyone. This book will turn your child into the artist that he or she wants to be. Each animal drawing lesson is a step by step process. Each tutorial is broken down into the simplest of steps that can be followed by most people.
This book is for both boys and girls, and is good for kids of most age ranges, but is best for kids aged 9-12 - but if your kids are 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, etc, they will all have fun trying these drawing tutorials out. Have fun drawing the day away!
Find detailed instructions inside on how to draw:
Anime
Manga
Chibi
Anime Eyes
Anime Hair
Anime Girls
Anime Boys
Manga Girls
and many more!Learn how to draw Anime with step by step guides. You will learn to draw Anime using shapes, templates, lines and many more. Some Anime are easy and others are harder. Great for yourself or as a gift!
Frequently Asked Questions
How Long Will it Take to Learn to Draw Anime?
Student's abilities are different and learning to draw Anime can take some time. We have found though with daily practice that most students can learn to draw Anime within 1 - 2 months of starting with our learn to draw Anime book.
What drawing tools will I need?
We recommend a set of colored pencils and a drawing pad. However learning to draw can be done with a basic pencil and copy paper as well. If you are just getting started we would suggest getting basic tools to make sure you enjoy drawing first.
Is this book for beginners or advanced artists?
This book will be a great tool for beginners or advanced artists looking to get better at drawing Anime. The drawings do have some detail to them but that is always on the last step making it easy for beginner students to start out with the simpler version and then work to get better at the advanced versions.
Are there any other books I can buy that will help me?
Yes! Joseph Stevenson has multiple books on how to draw everything from Anime to people. You can find all of Joseph's books on Amazon or other major bookstores. Joseph has been teaching people how to draw for the last 25 years and has a lot of great content out there.
What if I'm just not good at drawing?
Everyone can draw! It may take time and practice but we have never met anyone that couldn't get better at drawing with a little guidance and practice! If you buy the book however and still feel like you just can get it please feel free to return it for a full refund no questions asked.
This book is an official Joseph Stevenson Drawing product from Golden Valley Press. Not approved to be copied in any way digital or otherwise.
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The Whittiers
In this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, adult siblings find their way back home—and back to each other—after loss.
Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a beautiful historic Manhattan mansion. Now, with a nearly empty nest, it’s easier than ever for the Whittiers to maintain their tradition of a solo romantic “Wintermoon” ski trip.
But with this year’s trip comes tragedy, and suddenly the Whittier’s adult children find themselves reuniting in the family home without their parents for the first time ever. The oldest, Lyle, is reaching a breaking point in his marriage and must decide whether a divorce would be best for him and his two children. Gloria’s big job on Wall Street has kept her single at thirty-nine, and growing ever more cynical. The twins, Caroline and Charlie, moved out long ago to start a fashion business that may now be faltering. Benjie, with special needs, is hit hard by the loss of his parents and needs his siblings’ help. And Annabelle, the youngest, drops out of college and starts to spin out of control.
The eldest four are forced to put aside their personal issues and their grief to keep the family together and support each other and their two youngest siblings. Selling the house, along with all the memories that live in its walls, feels like yet another devastating loss. Could there be another way, as unconventional as it seems?
In The Whittiers, Danielle Steel delivers an inspiring story about the everlasting bonds of one unforgettable family. -
Paper Fantastic
Safe, easy, fast, and fun: paper crafts are the perfect creative activity for children. And these 48 unique projects—engagingly displayed on colorful pages—prove there’s more to paper art than just cutting out hearts. A special section starts kids off by introducing them to different papers and tools, while six technique-based chapters present imaginative possibilities for transforming everything from corrugated cardboard to vellum. Using collage, budding artists can create a Dream Travel Box. Young fashionistas will enjoy designing their own paper clothesline. Or they might fold a Book Necklace, make an origami Peace Crane, construct big beautiful Butterfly Wings for a costume party, even create a cool paper-m�ch� pig. Best of all, kids will learn how to turn their own crafty ideas into reality.
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Trust Me, You Can Draw
It's a super cute, can't fail, totally awesome, drawing, lettering, & coloring book for kids!
- More than100 step-by-step drawing lessons for cute animals, yummy desserts, nature themes, and others.
- Lettering lessons for 3 different alphabet styles.
- Pun-tastic coloring pages!
- Printed on high-quality art paper so you can use your favorite art materials. - Boredom buster!
Drawing, lettering, and coloring all in one book! Creative kids will have fun and develop art skills with this boredom-busting guide that is packed with over 100 lessons and activity pages. From cute animals and yummy desserts to trees, flowers, unicorns, and letters- kids will be amazed at what they can draw when they follow along with author and art teacher, Mrs. Arnold! High-quality art paper and flaps on both front and back make this book a beautiful gift item as well as a useful instruction book. -
Mama, Do You Love Me?
Mama, do you love me? Yes I do Dear One. How much? In this universal story, a child tests the limits of independence and comfortingly learns that a parent's love is unconditional and everlasting. The story is made all the more captivating by its unusual Arctic setting. The lyrical text introduces young readers to a distinctively different culture, while at the same time showing that the special love that exists between parent and child transcends all boundaries of time and place. The story is beautifully complemented by graphically stunning illustrations that are filled with such exciting animals as whales, wolves, puffins, and sled dogs, and a carefully researched glossary provides additional information on Arctic life. This tender and reassuring book is one that both parents and children will turn to again and again.
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Slugs in Love
Even slugs send valentines
Marylou loves everything about Herbie-how his slime trail glistens in the dark, how he can stretch himself thin to squeeze inside the cellar window, and how he always finds the juiciest tomatoes. But Marylou is a shy slug. How can she get Herbie to notice her? Find out how Marylou woos her beloved in this "must-have" love-story that's perfect for Valentine's Day.
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Tomoko Fuse's Origami Boxes
With this origami-how-to book, learn how to fold unique gift boxes that are as unique as the treasures they hold!
Considered the most famous living origami master, Tomoko Fuse is known for her expertise in box-folding and other origami paper craft styles. The simple flat box, or tato, is an excellent introduction to the art of beginner origami and allows readers to "start small," then build to more intricate pieces.
Handmade paper boxes are an expression of origami crafts at their very best. Experiment with different thicknesses, textures, and origami paper designs of paper for a true one-of-a-kind presentation.
Step by step instructions and diagrams guide you from start to finish as you create:- Flat boxes in several different shapes
- Boxes with multifaceted tops
- Box tops with spiraled flourishes
- And so much more
Origami box folding is a relaxing and satisfying craft for all levels of expertise and—with a little practice and this easy origami book—gift-giving will never be the same.
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Outside the Lines
Published on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's 65th anniversary, Outside the Lines documents the conceptual framework of the institution's ability to act and think outside the norm. This publication, originally conceived as an ongoing curatorial dialogue, features six exhibitions on abstract painting, focusing on the legacies and contemporary manifestations of the genre. With text and analysis by museum director Bill Arning, curator Dean Daderko and senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, Outside the Lines details, in three sections, Arning's UIA (Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract) and Painting: A Love Story; Daderko's Outside the Lines and Rites of Spring; as well as Cassel Oliver's Black in the Abstract: Epistrophy and Black in the Abstract: Hard Edges/Soft Curves. Each section includes texts and images for the exhibitions featured, as well as information on over 90 artists whose works are highlighted.
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Please Excuse This Poem
One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view.
Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now?full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of ?the rape joke”; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it.
Editors Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick have crafted a book that is a must-read for those wanting to know the future of poetry. With an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché, Please Excuse This Poem has the power to change the way you look at the world. It is The Best American Nonrequired Reading?in poetry form. -
Beach Read
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really. -
Dork Diaries 9
Nikki Maxwell’s worst nightmare comes true in this ninth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!
A certain member of the CCP girls Dork fans know all about has gotten her hands on Nikki’s diary and has decided to share some thoughts of her own…Find out what happens when Nikki’s worst nightmare becomes a reality. Welcome to MacKenzie’s world!! -
Always Young and Restless
The adored actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and forty-year career.
Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her The Young and the Restless role, which has seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America's highest-rated daytime serial. But the high drama, angst, and catastrophes aren't confined to her character's plotlines. In this captivating memoir, Melody reveals behind-the-scenes tales of her own riveting journey to becoming an icon.
As Nikki Newman went from impoverished stripper to resourceful, vivacious heroine--with missteps as gripping as her triumphs--Melody became a household name, enthralling audiences across the globe. But her road to stardom also had to be one to freedom marked by an escape fit for cinema. In Always Young and Restless, Melody tells of her troubled, untraditional upbringing for the first time.
Readers will learn how she suffered at home with her hoarder grandmother, whose cruelty as her manager is shockingly extreme; abuse at the hands of industry men; the intensity of acting in feature films with Alfred Hitchcock and Clint Eastwood; and how she finally took control of her life and career, in a getaway move as daring as any on The Young and the Restless. And of course, Melody divulges forty years' worth of juicy on-and-off-set details of what it's like to be one-half of the show's most successful supercouple, "Niktor," plus her personal path to healing, love, and family. In witty, warm prose, meet the shining, persevering heart of an American icon--and prepare to be moved by a life story fit for a soap opera star.
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Llama Llama Holiday Drama
Llama Llama holidays.
Jingle music. Lights ablaze.
How long till that special date?
Llama Llama has to wait.
If there's one thing Llama Llama doesn't like, it's waiting. He and Mama Llama rush around, shopping for presents, baking cookies, decorating the tree . . . but how long is it until Christmas? Will it ever come? Finally, Llama Llama just can't wait any more! It takes a cuddle from Mama Llama to remind him that "Gifts are nice, but there's another: The true gift is, we have each other."
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Dara Palmer's Major Drama
Dara's larger-than-life personality and true-to-life middle grade issues command center stage until the curtain falls.--School Library Journal, STARRED Review
Dara Palmer is destined to be a star, and she's writing herself the role of a lifetime. In this book, Emma Shevah tells a heartwarming story of one girl's experience with transracial adoption and the drama of middle school.
Dara longs for stardom--but when she isn't cast in her middle school's production of The Sound of Music, she gets suspicious. It can't be because she's not the best. She was born to be a famous movie star. It must be because she's adopted from Cambodia and doesn't look like a typical fraulein. (That's German for girl.)
So irrepressible Dara comes up with a genius plan to shake up the school: write a play about her own life. Then she'll have to be the star.