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  The Little Book of Rock Painting...

  F. Sehnaz Bac, Diana Fisher,...

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  Creative exercises, prompts, and step-by-step projects for turning nature into three-dimensional art! 
   
  The Little Book of Rock Painting teaches beginners the fundamentals of the medium in an engaging and fun way. Aspiring artists will discover how to gather and prepare their rocks to create three-dimensional masterpieces that are truly one with nature. Written and illustrated by three talented rock-painting artists, the book features a range of contemporary designs to experiment with, from patterns and animals to mandalas and dots. The instructions are easy to follow and invite creativity and originality. Also included are simple ways to create exciting special effects. 
   
  Grab your colors, head outside—and start painting beautiful works of art on stones!

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  How to Speak Dog - Mastering the...

  Stanley Coren

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  “A must read for all dog owners.” —The Washington Post“The best key to what dogs are thinking.” —The Seattle TimesHow to Speak Dog is one of the few books today that show us what dogs are trying to tell us, not just how we can control them. Parlez-vous Doggish?At long last, dogs will know just how smart their owners can be. By unlocking the secrets of the hidden language of dogs, psychologist Stanley Coren allows us into the doggy dialogue, or “Doggish,” and makes effective communication a reality.Drawing on substantial research in animal behavior, evolutionary biology, and years of personal experience, Coren demonstrates that the average house dog can understand language at about the level of a two-year-old human. While actual conversation of the sort Lassie seemed capable of in Hollywood mythmaking remains forever out of reach, Coren shows us that a great deal of real communication is possible beyond the giving and obeying of commands.How to Speak Dog not only provides the sounds, words, actions, and movements with which we can effectively communicate with our dogs, but also deciphers the signs that our dogs give to us. With easy-to-follow tips on how humans can mimic the language dogs use to talk with one another, original drawings illustrating the subtleties of their body language, and a handy visual glossary and “Doggish” phrasebook, How to Speak Dog gives dog lovers the skills they need to improve their relationships with their pets.

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  Origami Airplanes

  Paul Jackson, Miri Golan

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  Prepare to take flight with this amazing crafting guide from one of the world’s foremost origami experts. With easy-to-follow instructions, the spectacular paper airplanes in Origami Airplanes are so simple and fun to make, even first-time flyers will have a plane soaring through the air in no time. All the designs were chosen because they feature a special detail of paper plane design, such as being very wide or narrow, great for flying outdoors, a strange shape, having an unusual launch or being acrobatic. Origami Airplanes also includes tips and tricks for making all your planes fly really…REALLY…well!Paul’s origami, pop-up and paper sculpture books have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

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  Becoming a Gardener - What...

  Catie Marron

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  A personal account of what it means to become a gardener. 
  To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. But while she was familiar with landscape design, she had never grown anything. A dedicated reader with a lifelong passion for literature, Marron turned to the library of gardening books she’d collected to glean advice from a variety of writers on gardening and horticultural topics both grand and small.  
  Marron’s quest to become a gardener, however, was about more than learning the basics about mulch or which plants work best in the shade. She sought something far more elusive: to identify the core qualities and characteristics that make a person a gardener and an understanding of what a garden could mean to her as it had to multitudes of other gardeners over the centuries. 
  In Becoming a Gardener, Catie Marron chronicles her transformation into a gardener over the course of eighteen months, seeding the details of her experience with rich advice from writers as diverse as Eleanor Perényi and Karel Capek, Penelope Lively, and Jamaica Kincaid. As she digs deeper into her readings and works in the garden itself, Marron not only discovers the essence of gardening but in the words of Michael Pollan, “the endlessly engrossing ways that cultivating a garden attaches a body to the earth.” 
  A delightful blend of informed opinion, personal reflection, and practical advice, Becoming a Gardener explores topics as varied as the composition of dirt, the agricultural wisdom of avid kitchen gardeners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the healing power of digging in the soil, and the beauty of finding solitude in nature. Throughout, Marron carefully plants special illustrated features, such as musings on the merits (and detriments) of the rose, essential tools, moonlight gardening, children’s books which feature gardens, and her favorite gardens around the world. Also included is an annotated list of recommended writers, books, and films related to gardens and gardening, and a monthly to-do calendar. 
  Becoming a Gardener is a very special and moving portrait of life and the enduring power of literature and nature that is sure to become an instant classic. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Have Mother Will Travel - A...

  Claire Fontaine, Mia Fontaine

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  A mother, a daughter, and a life-changing adventure around the world . . .Their bestselling memoir, Come Back, moved and inspired readers with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now it's a decade later and Claire and Mia each face a defining moment in her life, and a mother-daughter relationship that has frayed around the edges. At fifty-one, Claire's shed her identity as Mia's savior but realizes that, oops, she forgot to plan for life after motherhood; Mia, twenty-five and eager to step outside her role as recovery's poster child, finds adult life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Determined to transform themselves and their relationship once again, the pair sets off on a five-month around-the-world adventure. What awaits them is an extraordinary, often hilarious journey through twenty cities and twelve countries—one that includes mishaps, mayhem, and unexpected joys, from a passport-eating elephant to a calamitous camel ride around the Pyramids—and finally making peace with their tumultuous past in the lavender fields of France, where they live for the last four months of the trip. Seeing how self-possessed and community-minded twentysomethings are in other countries broadens Mia's perspective, helping her grow, and grow up. Claire uses the trip to examine her broken relationship with her own mother, a Holocaust survivor, and to create a vision for her second act. Watching her mom assess half a century of life, Mia comes to know her as Claire has always known Mia—as all mothers know their daughters—better than anyone else, and often better than themselves.Wiser for what they've learned from women in other cultures, and from each other, they return with a deepened sense of who they are and where they want to go—and with each embracing the mature friendship they've discovered and the profound love they share. Alternating between Claire and Mia's compelling and distinct voices, Have Mother, Will Travel is a testament to the power and beauty of the mother-daughter relationship, one that illuminates possibilities for our own lives.

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  Gambling: The Ultimate Guide To...

  Steven J. Matthews

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  “What is life if not a gamble?”~F.E. HigginsGambling has the potential to become a lucrative profit income if played responsibility.  In order to cash in on all that, it can offer you first must equip yourself with the basics of gambling.  The most convenient method of gambling involves an online casino.  With this method, a person can select when it is convenient for them to place a bet.  This book covers all the essential knowledge that includes understanding payment processors and your casino bank.  Understanding the game and casino rules.  Learn the insider tricks of the gambling community.It also includes must-have advice on knowing the tax rules and how not to indulge enough that you find yourself suddenly addicted.  In addition, it tells the best gambling games and the odds for winning each.  This in-depth knowledge contained in this book will turn anyone into a pro.  It will also offer advice on how to learn to separate the game from reality.  No matter what level you find yourself as a gambler, this book offers something for anyone!

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