The "easy child" should forgive and forget. The "easy child" should pretend nothing had changed. Adeline has two jobs this summer: nanny for an unpredictable kid and maid of honor for her unpredictable sister. With more than she's ever had to juggle, it's getting harder and harder to be the "easy" one. But when an infamous boy from her past reappears, Adeline wonders if the stories she tells herself are the only thing keeping her calm.
Take a 30-day art challenge and build watercolor skills while creating 30 gorgeous skies for every time of day and light effect. Art challenges are a popular way for artists at all skill levels to learn about and master a medium and establish a consistent creative practice. Written and illustrated by Zaneena Nabeel, popular Instagram artist and online art instructor also known as Aurora by Z, Bold and Beautiful Watercolor Skies teaches aspiring artists how to master simple techniques to create inspiring images of striking skies through 30 sky projects. Getting to Know Watercolor. Learn about the essential supplies, techniques, and color knowledge through easy exercises that give you the skills you’ll need to create the projects. Bold and Beautiful Skies: 30 Days, 30 Projects. Explore what an art challenge can help you achieve as an artist, then follow the 30 step-by-step tutorials to create a range of stunning, colorful skies and light effects, from a bright blue morning to a fiery red sunset, from a starry night to the aurora borealis. Whether you follow the program to make a painting a day or choose to create your paintings over a longer time frame, Bold and Beautiful Watercolor Skies will teach you how to master basic techniques to create amazing images through the support of a structured approach.
Day Pass From The Asylum is Meryl Taylor's second large collection of poetry published and ninth overall since 1987. She is also a romance novelist with first title to be released in August in the UK. She is a retired law enforcement officer, equestrian, artist and attributes her gifts to her hellish childhood and the kind people she crossed paths with by chance and by providence (Aunt BeaTisdale) Especially to be mentioned is her late husband who never lost faith and the incredible Todd Gates whose gift for healing and friendship tapped a well spring of creativity that has been a blessing. Thank you dear friend. Part of the proceeds of this volume will be dedicated to the American Humane Society.
Poems by native Los Angeles author and photographer Karina (Karen Safer) capture four decades of her impressions of life, love and heartache set against California and international backdrops. Karina draws inspiration from her travels to 180 countries on all seven continents. Jazz, basketball and cheeseburgers define her American experience. She currently resides in Playa del Rey, California.
Forests are full of secrets. I thought our road would be easy. All we had to do was go straight to the mera base our parents would be at. I couldn’t have been more wrong. When I’m recognized as a missing person, our group runs to the forest to hide. We travel to an abandoned mera base so that June can build more of her machines. After all, we want to be able to save our parents from the meras. I wish I could have rested there, but these terrifying nightmares wouldn’t stop. Enemies in the forest and my dreams wouldn’t leave me alone, and so I tried to stop a mera on my own. Now I’ve uncovered secrets that destroyed my world. If I can’t recover, I’ll become like the prisoners in Bunker 3, losing myself and my family forever. Secret Skies is the second book in the Chimera Skies series. It's an action/adventure with scifi elements. It is YA with no mature content besides violence. From the back of the book: Sam and her group are on the road to find her parents. They’re excited to be out of Bunker 3 together, but their plans are destroyed when Sam is recognized as a missing person. In a desperate attempt to escape, they run into the forest. Luckily, they end up in an abandoned chimera base. The base proves to be useful, containing all the tools June needs to make more of her machines. The group plans to stay until June can construct more machines. As her nightmares become more frequent, though, Sam is anxious to leave and find her parents and return to normal. For the good of humanity, June's special machines take precedence. When Sam makes a rash decision, her entire world comes to a halt as secrets unfold that she never saw coming. In a stupor, she runs away from the base and gets lost in the forest. As enemies surround her, she becomes more and more like the prisoners in Bunker 3. Can she recover in time to find her parents? Or will it be too late for them, and more importantly, for herself?
This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle
"There are heroes among us, and Dr. Calvin Sun is one of them. Read this book." -Lisa Ling, journalist The Monsoon Diaries is the firsthand account of Dr. Calvin Sun, an emergency room doctor who worked tirelessly on the front lines in multiple hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon the lessons he learned from his adventures traveling to more than 190 countries in ten years, as well as from the grief he experienced as a teen when his father died, Dr. Sun shares his journey, from growing up as a young Asian American in New York to his calling first to medical school and then to the open road. He believes that the fight for a better world creates meaning when all feels meaningless, and he hopes that telling his story will help readers reframe this tragic moment in our lifetimes into possibility, with the goal of building a more empathetic society.
Bert is a larger than life protagonist who lives in a universe that is out to get him. He is a loser at love and a failure in life, who decides to garner good luck for himself by finding a girlfriend for his perfect yet lonely best friend, Jack. While on the hunt for good luck, Bert suffers dark and shocking hardships. His life is threatened, he gets kidnapped, he falls into a coma, and wakes up in serious trouble. During Bert's good luck journey, he explores the meaning of love, envy, human desperation, and the existence of good luck.
