The Night Voyage
Title | The Night Voyage PDF eBook |
Author | Daria Song |
Publisher | Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages | 82 |
Release | 2016-08-30 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 0399579044 |
A little girl delivers gifts across the world with the help of her toy train’s conductor in this gorgeous coloring book for all ages—the third installation of the magical Time series It’s the night before the little girl’s birthday, and she’s surrounded by gifts—but there are too many! Suddenly, she’s swept away by her toy train conductor, who has come to life to help the little girl give her presents away to children around the globe. From evocatively illustrated paper cranes, bicycles, and trolleys to cityscapes, hot air balloons, and star-filled skies, The Night Voyage is a magical and imaginative adventure from Korean artist Daria Song. The Night Voyage has extra-thick craft paper and a removable—and colorable!—jacket. Featuring gorgeous gold foil on the cover and a customizable dedication page, The Night Voyage is perfect for anyone looking to add some magic into their lives. Unleash your creativity with Daria Song’s whimsical Time series: THE TIME GARDEN • THE TIME CHAMBER • THE NIGHT VOYAGE
The Flower of Empire
Title | The Flower of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tatiana Holway |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199911169 |
In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Doodle Mania
Title | Doodle Mania PDF eBook |
Author | Zifflin |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2016-10-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781539494683 |
Vol 4 of Zifflin's Coloring Books have finally arrived. Let Rocky Villaruel amazing art challenge you for some serious coloring challenges. 50 unique pieces of art to color or simply admire.
Three Assassins
Title | Three Assassins PDF eBook |
Author | Kotaro Isaka |
Publisher | Abrams |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2022-08-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1647007828 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick By the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane new thriller, set in Tokyo’s criminal underworld, pits an ordinary man against a group of talented and very unusual assassins Three Assassins is the high-stakes, high-style, and utterly propulsive follow-up to Kotaro Isaka’s international bestseller, Bullet Train, a Crime Reads "Most Anticipated Book of 2021." Suzuki is an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. To get answers and his revenge, Suzuki abandons his law-abiding lifestyle and takes a low-level job with a front company operated by the crime gang Maiden, who are responsible for his wife’s death. Before long, Suzuki finds himself caught up in a network of quirky and highly effective assassins: The Cicada is a knife expert. The Pusher nudges people into oncoming traffic. The Whale whispers bleak aphorisms to his victims until they take their own lives. Intense and electrifying, Three Assassins delivers a wild ride through the criminal underworld of Tokyo, populated by contract killers who are almost superhumanly good at their jobs.
The Flower Hunter
Title | The Flower Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Hunter |
Publisher | Ryland Peters & Small |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781788793841 |
In The Flower Hunter, Lucy Hunter takes us on an inspirational journey through a year in her garden and artist’s studio set among the mountains of North Wales. Lucy's evocative, gently humorous words accompany her glorious photographs and exquisite floral arrangements, as she encourages the reader to marvel at the intricate cycles of the natural world, develop their own innate creativity, and to look for beauty in the everyday. Her garden provides the raw materials and inspires Lucy's floral artistry—breathtaking naturalistic arrangements with all the painterly beauty and flourish of a Dutch still life. Simple projects accompany Lucy’s text, from drying garden flowers for an autumnal wreath to making your own journals and natural dyes to assembling lavish arrangements that showcase the voluptuous beauty of garden roses. Lucy believes that we all have a creative voice buried deep within. The Flower Hunter will encourage you to find your own creativity and help it to blossom.
Genius of Place
Title | Genius of Place PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Martin |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | 494 |
Release | 2011-05-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0306818817 |
This definitive, first full-scale biography of Olmsted--famed designer of New York's Central Park--reveals him also as a brilliant political and social reformer.
Magic Scope
Title | Magic Scope PDF eBook |
Author | Irina Vinnik |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 2016-05-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781532953095 |
"Magic Scope: Coloring book" invites you in the Looking-Glass world where refractions will change your impressions. Perhaps some of the images will look like animal or insect but nothing concrete. Just a little bit of magic and fantasy in everyday life . The book includes 56 large illustrations and another 56 individual motifs.