Discover the joy of creating without pressure, perfection or needing to be "good" at art.Whether you're looking for a mindful creative practice, feeling overwhelmed by everyday life, navigating anxiety, experiencing creative block or simply wanting to rediscover the joy of creating,The Peaceful Brain Art Book is a calming collection of 55 simple, beginner-friendly art exercises designed to help you slow down, reconnect with your creativity and make art wit...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, Good Morning America, She Reads**Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged celebrity memoir that is “equal parts adversity and resilience, told with candor” (USA Today)....

SWEET DREAMS, HONEYWhat if sleep isn't an escape? What if the moment you close your eyes is when the real nightmare begins?Sweet Dreams, Honey is a dark anthology of nightmares, dream worlds, sleep paralysis, impossible awakenings, and horrors. Across 26 stories, the boundary between dreams and reality becomes dangerously thin, and sometimes there is no waking up.Enter dreams where the dead return. Follow characters into strange worlds hidden behind closed eyes. Fac...

I didn't come to Bear Creek Valley looking for anything.I'm the sheriff of Iron Creek — population 312, forty-five minutes over the pass, where the biggest emergency this year was a bull that walked into the post office and wouldn't leave. Griffin Holloway needed a second badge for the harvest festival, and I owed him a favor. Two weeks. Help manage the crowds, the parking, the tourists who think "rustic" means their cabin should still have Wi-Fi.Then Griffin assigns me to ...

One day to see the sights.One night to change your life…Magazine writer Kathryn Taylor is traveling from New York to Paris for work. But the flirtatious Frenchman she left long ago is waiting at the airport--and he wants to play…No one can guide Kat through the sensual city's delights like Marko Renard. He let her get away once, and now he's determined to make her stay--even if he has to tie her down. He will wrap her in cashmere, tease her tongue wi...

I haven't put up a Christmas tree in six years.Not since the accident. Not since I carried my wife's ornament box to the attic, closed the lid, and told my son we'd do Christmas at Grandma's from now on.Eli's eight. Old enough to stop believing me when I say it's no big deal. Old enough to notice every other house on this mountain has lights in the windows and ours sits dark.I cut timber for a living. I can fell a hundred-foot pine in sixty seconds and make it land ...

"Richard will always be mine, Elena," The corner of her lips curled up into a sly smirk. Advancing closer, she leaned in to whisper against my ear softly. "Even if I have to kill you to have him to myself, I'll do it."He's the man she's always loved. The man she's always felt strongly for.But he has eyes on one person only; her hot-shot surgeon sister.When her twin sister fails to show up on her wedding day, Elena has no choice but to step up to the occasion and tak...

In this beloved Zen Buddhist allegory, a boy is searching for his missing ox—his true self. And once he finds it, he struggles to tame and train it. For the journey of the young ox herder is also the story of our journey toward enlightenment. Award-winning author, Demi, presents the story of the herd boy and his ox with all the simplicity and beauty of the traditional Zen Buddhist representations. An appendix provides further details on the history and meaning of the oxherding pictures and...

In this epic and immersive Viking-inspired romantic fantasy, a woman fleeing a ruthless assassin accidentally joins forces with agroup of thieves and must use all her cunning to escape with her life—and heart—intact.Silla Nordvig is running for her life.The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest: travel the treacherous Road of Bones—a thou...

There are places in the world which blur and fuzz when your attention strays toward them—places which can only be seen out of the corner of your eye. They are everywhere around us: lurking behind the door-left-ajar, shifting in the dimly-lit mirror, phasing in and out of both dream and memory. These interstitial domains are what we call 'liminal spaces,' ecotones of dread and persistent unease between reality and an undefined beyond.In between doorways, seventeen authors explore th...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • The king is dead, a dragon awakened, and war looms on the horizon in the Kingdom of Íseldur.The Volsik sisters have reunited, but Silla and Saga’s greatest task yet awaits them: reclaim the throne that was stolen from them seventeen years ago. In order to do so, they must vanquish Signe and her warband of monsters, as well as the dragon Kraugeir, who threatens to burn everything and everyone they love to the ground....

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Sri Lanka.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from reef diving and snorkelling around Pigeon Island, to experiencing Sri Lanka's most iconic train ride through scenic tea plantations, and spotting leopards and sloth bears in the crowd-free Kumana National Park.Build a trip to remember