The Easy Way to Get Started with Oil PaintingCraig Stephens has a simple motto for painting: With a brush, some paints and a willingness to learn, anyone can do it. With that mindset, Craig takes his most essential lessons, boils them down to their basics and teaches you everything you need to know to start oil painting, without any fuss or highbrow. Thanks to his experience teaching painting to high school students for over two decades, Craig is an expert at helpi...

Imagine cooking dinner in your kitchen as you watch the sun start to set on a warm summer night. You take a moment and step outside to your vegetable garden in the backyard and pick some basil for your meal.It sounds pretty great, right?You can have access to fresh, organic vegetables and herbs right in your backyard!Even if you’re a complete beginner and don’t have the gift of a green thumb, Vegetable Gardening is the guide you need to start your own vegetable gard...

If you have been struggling with communication or undermining its importance in life, this book is reawakening. It may just offer you a solution to the failures you may have been experiencing in the various realms of life.Effective communication is a discipline that has evolved. This is due to the fact communication is a means of interaction among people for various purposes. It created a need to study communication in a structured way in terms of how it is applied in the various a...

Healthy communication is a key part of any relationship. As a partner, you need to be able to communicate effectively with your significant other. Communication is so important because it doesn’t just help the two of you talk to each other; it helps you learn how to strengthen the bond that the two of you have together as a couple. Everyone has heard the expression ‘when you get in a relationship; two become one.‘ When this happens, the two of you are forming a bond of unity that is being ...

Learn about tennis superstar Sloane Stephens in this book in a nonfiction series about your favorite athletes’ childhoods and what (or who) helped them become the stars they are today!Sloane Stephens comes from a family of athletes. Her mother was an All-American swimmer while her father was an NFL running back. However, Sloane came to tennis by accident: she needed something to do while her mother played, so she picked up a racquet of her own and suddenly a star w...

A complete guide to planning an estate under today's tax rulesWhen it comes to your estate-no matter how big or small it may be-you shouldn't leave anything to chance. Proper planning is necessary to protect both your assets and your heirs. Experts Stewart Welch III, Harold Apolinsky, and Craig Stephens know this better than anyone else, and in the Third Edition of J.K. Lasser's New Rules for Estate and Tax Planning, they offer valuable advice and solid strategies...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in the world. The epic poetry describes the ancient King Gilgamesh and his journey to discover the secret to eternal life.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KINGA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEOn November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has ...

Described simply, mindfulness is the art of directing our attention to what is (reality) rather than what isnt (our ideas of reality). With a little practice, anyone can do it, and the benefits are profound, leading to: an increased sense of happiness and wellbeing; increased clarity of mind; increased productivity, and better health. Written by two experts with many years of personal and clinical experience, Mindfulness for Life is designed to be your complete guide to living a more mindf...

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . .King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled lon...

The world would die laughing…When a new disease turns people into sadistic, laughing killers, a light infantry battalion fights to maintain order in Boston. As infection spreads, the Army loses control, and the soldiers find themselves fighting the people they once swore to protect.As the country slides into violent collapse, the lost battalion learns the last bastion of the federal government is still holding out in Florida. Harry Lee, its commander, decides the only hope ...

In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the same music. It would have a profound effect. Who was this folk singer who resonated with South Africa's youth? No one could say. All that anyone knew was his name - Rodriguez - and the fact that he had killed himself on stage after reading his own epitaph...