"A new take on a legendary partnership...Thoroughly delightful...Fans will love this fresh, insightful approach to the band."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)John Lennon and Paul McCartney knew each other for twenty-three years, from 1957 to 1980. This book is the myth-shattering biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world.The Beatles shook the world to its core in the 1960’s and, to this day, new generations continue to fall in love with their songs and their story. At the heart of this phenomenon lies the dynamic between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Few other musical partnerships have been rooted in such a deep, intense and complicated personal relationship. John and Paul’s relationship was defined by its complexity: compulsive, tender and tempestuous; full of longing, riven by jealousy. Like the band, their relationship was always in motion, never in equilibrium for long. John & Paul traces its twists and turns and reveals how these shifts manifested themselves in the music. The two of them shared a private language, rooted in the stories, comedy and songs they both loved as teenagers, and later, in the lyrics of Beatles songs.In John & Paul, acclaimed writer Ian Leslie uses the songs they wrote to trace the shared journey of these two compelling men before, during, and after The Beatles. Drawing on recently released footage and recordings, Leslie offers us an intimate and insightful new look at two of the greatest icons in music history, and rich insights into the nature of creativity, collaboration, and human intimacy. Read more

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's cover art greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated its imagery into the novel. Read more

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How to Draw Baby Animals by Gregory Hilderbrand Jr. is the perfect book for learning How to Draw! Whether you’re an aspiring artist or a parent looking for a fun and creative activity for your kids or teens, this step-by-step guide will make learning How to Draw a breeze..What You’ll Discover inside this book:Simple and Fun StepsCreative Drawing VariationsDrawing Confidence BuildingBeginner-Friendly ApproachPerfect for All AgesEach drawing exercise displays a (4) easy step by step drawing solution on each page with a blank “Practice Drawing Here” page for each user of this book. Read more

Ink Tracing: Plants and Flowers is an eBook designed specifically for the Kindle Scribe, ideal for anyone who enjoys the calming activity of tracing. This book includes 30 illustrations, providing a variety of designs to explore and enjoy. Whether you're an experienced artist or just starting out, you'll find each page offers a new opportunity to relax and get creative. The Kindle Scribe makes it easy to carry your tracing projects with you wherever you go, so you can enjoy a moment of creativity anytime, anywhere.Created exclusively for the Kindle Scribe, featuring write-on capability.Features of this eBook include:A hyperlinked table of contents, with thumbnails linking directly to each illustration.Easy-to-follow tracing guides on each illustration page.Works for both right and left-handed users.Suitable for all skill levels. Read more

A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182.This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meets his best friend who just so happens to be his musical soulmate.Bassist, songwriter, and vocalist for renowned pop-punk trailblazers blink-182, Mark Hoppus, tells his story in Fahrenheit-182. A memoir that paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up in the 1980s as a latchkey kid hooked on punk rock, skateboards, and MTV; Mark Hoppus shares how he came of age and forms one of the biggest bands of his generation. Threaded through with the very human story of a constant battle with anxiety and Mark’s public battle and triumph over cancer, Fahrenheit-182 is a delight for fans and also a funny, smart, and relatable memoir for anyone who has wanted to quit but kept going. Read more

When art conservator Chloe Harper is called to examine vandalized paintings of Seabrook's historic lighthouse, she expects a routine case of mindless destruction. Instead, she discovers the first thread in a century-ole mystery that will test her skills far beyond art restoration.The lighthouse is being renovated by wealthy developer Marcus Parker, whose family has dominated Seabrook for generations. But when the vandalism reveals connections to Parker's great-grandfather and a mysterious mermaid lamp, Chloe realizes someone is desperately trying to either expose or protect secrets hidden within the lighthouse walls.Joined by her faithful Bernese Mountain dog, Apollo, her best friend Fi, and the reluctant but intriguing Detective Ethan Callahan, Chloe follows a trail of clues through Seabrook's layered history. The investigation leads to Margaret Bennett Parker, an elderly woman with direct ties to the original lighthouse keeper's daughter and a story she's waited for decades to tell.As Chloe uncovers evidence of forbidden romance, broken treaties, and family betrayal, she finds herself drawn deeper into Seabrook's complex past and closer to Detective Callahan. But powerful interests will stop at nothing to keep some secrets buried, and Chloe soon discovers that even a lighthouse's beam can cast dangerous shadows.With time running out and the past colliding with the present, Chloe must decipher cryptic clues in a race to uncover the truth before history repeats its darkest chapter. In Seabrook, where the tide washes away footprints, but never secrets, Chloe will need all her skills to illuminate the past and chart a course toward justice.The Painted Lighthouse is the second installment in the captivating Seabrook Cozy Mystery series, perfect for fans of atmospheric settings, historical secrets, and mysteries where the past is never truly buried. Read more

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Ink Tracing: Floral Mandalas is an eBook designed specifically for the Kindle Scribe, ideal for anyone who enjoys the calming activity of tracing. This book includes 30 illustrations, providing a variety of designs to explore and enjoy. Whether you're an experienced artist or just starting out, you'll find each page offers a new opportunity to relax and get creative. The Kindle Scribe makes it easy to carry your tracing projects with you wherever you go, so you can enjoy a moment of creativity anytime, anywhere.Created exclusively for the Kindle Scribe, featuring write-on capability.Features of this eBook include:A hyperlinked table of contents, with thumbnails linking directly to each illustration.Easy-to-follow tracing guides on each illustration page.Works for both right and left-handed users.Suitable for all skill levels. Read more

All thirteen Miss Marple mysteries in one comprehensive collection!Delight in the entire series featuring the Queen of Mystery's renowned detective, Miss Jane Marple. From the charming village of St. Mary Mead to the glamorous French Riviera and the exotic Caribbean Islands, crime is never far — but Agatha Christie's astute sleuth is always ahead of the game.Included stories:The Murder at the VicarageThe Body in the LibraryThe Moving FingerA Murder Is AnnouncedThey Do It with MirrorsA Pocket Full of Rye4.50 from PaddingtonThe Mirror Crack'd from Side to SideA Caribbean MysteryAt Bertram's HotelNemesisSleeping MurderMiss Marple: The Complete Short Stories Read more

Unique, practical and straightforward way to learn music theory and discover how music really works.Newly updated and massively expanded edition with new content, exercises and images.Make learning music theory easy.This book also features the links to audio examples (hosted on external website). These examples allow you to hear the relevant music theory concepts and understand them better!Have you ever wanted:To know how music theory can make you a better player on any instrument?To understand how music works, why there are 12 notes, how they relate to each other, and why we use intervals with imperfect resonance?To understand why something sounds good? To understand how music theory is not just some made up rules we invented out of thin air; 'what sounds good' is based on the natural laws and stems from natural occurrences.To unlock the mysteries of notes, intervals, music scales, modes, keys, circle of fifths, chords and progressions, rhythms and other important concepts in music, and how they all relate to one another?To get a deep understanding of scales, modes and chords, where they come from, what are the different types that exist, how they're built, and how to use any chord or scale in your playing?To learn how to form, name and play any chord that is possible to play?To learn how rhythm works and how to master your timing skills that will make you sound like a pro on any instrument?To understand harmony and the magic behind all the beautiful music that you love and how you can (re)create it by yourself?To get a wider perspective on tonal harmony and how melody, harmony, and rhythm work together?To understand composition and improvisation, and how to use voice leading and chord inversions to create beautiful harmonies?To get a grasp on the advanced concepts (such as modal playing, atonality, polychords and polytonality, free music) that usually only advanced jazz musicians may consider using?But...Have you ever had trouble learning music theory or thought that it was unnecessary, boring or too hard to learn?Have you perhaps thought using intellect will be bad for your playing?If you find yourself in any of this, then this book is the answer you’ve been looking for. It covers pretty much everything that anyone who plays or wants to play music should know. It is the book to have if you want to become a better musician, and have by your side as an immensely useful reference of knowledge.This book is structured in a way that makes it very easy to follow, digest and internalize all important concepts that constitute music theory. What's great is that you don't have to be a college musician in order to understand and use any of this – anyone can do it, even a total newbie. It also doesn't matter what instrument(s) you play, nor your current level of knowledge and playing ability, because music theory is universal and all about what sounds good together! Anyone can benefit from it. It explains the WHY and HOW, and it is your roadmap - a skill and a tool, guided by your ears, for creating your best music.This is the most comprehensive and evergreen book on music theory that you can find – a book you'll wish to study and refer to often, and keep it forever. You’ll also wish to gift it your friends and discuss about its content with other musicians.It will give you what is necessary to become an expert in music theory without frustration and feeling overwhelmed in the process, and this in-turn will have immense benefits to your playing and musicianship!But don’t take my word for it, use the Look Inside feature by clicking on the book cover to get a preview of what you'll find inside.Get this book now and solve all your problems with music theory! Read more

Ink Tracing: Doodle Patterns is an eBook designed specifically for the Kindle Scribe, ideal for anyone who enjoys the calming activity of tracing. This book includes 30 illustrations, providing a variety of designs to explore and enjoy. Whether you're an experienced artist or just starting out, you'll find each page offers a new opportunity to relax and get creative. The Kindle Scribe makes it easy to carry your tracing projects with you wherever you go, so you can enjoy a moment of creativity anytime, anywhere.Created exclusively for the Kindle Scribe, featuring write-on capability.Features of this eBook include:A hyperlinked table of contents, with thumbnails linking directly to each illustration.Easy-to-follow tracing guides on each illustration page.Works for both right and left-handed users.Suitable for all skill levels Read more

“[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining.”—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan, and finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher. Read more

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This updated second edition offers crocheters at all skill levels even more to love about granny squares with twenty-five brand new squares and twenty-five all-new projects.Since it was first published in 2011, The Granny Square Book has instructed and inspired thousands of crocheters to make and create beautiful, stylish projects with these classic motifs.Now updated with twenty-five additional squares (for a total of 100!) and all new projects, this new edition offers crocheters at all skill levels even more to love about granny squares. Author and designer Margaret Hubert shows you the amazing versatility and variety of this portable and convenient technique of crocheting square by square—how it can be used to make almost anything and interpreted in countless ways and different yarns.This book includes:Crochet basics used for making granny squaresStitch instructions and symbol diagrams for 100 unique squaresTwenty-five all new projects—garments, accessories, gifts, and home décorGuidance and ideas for designing your own granny square projectsFire up your crochet hooks! There’s lots of granny square fun to come!Praise for The Granny Square Book“Crocheters looking to move beyond basic granny squares, as well as new crocheters drawn to these traditional motifs, will enjoy this collection.” —Library Journal“Delightful . . . If you like to crochet granny squares but are looking to go ‘beyond the blanket,’ this might be the book for you!” —Underground Crafter Read more

Creativity exists in everyone!Find joy in this inspiring, beautiful and uplifting art instruction book from sketchbook lover, tutor and artist Katie Moody.Art can be accessible, so much fun and positive for your mental health, mindfulness, and memory. Kickstart your creative journey with this exciting guide to developing your art skills every day through your sketchbook.Even if you are sparkling brand new to art, Sketchbook Joy’s aspirational prompts will encourage you to unlock your creativity and fill your very own gorgeous sketchbook to cherish.Learn how to paint through the accessible medium of fun gouache and explore the expressive joy of mixed media by drawing in pastels & pencils.Be excited by unique examples and ideas from artist Katie Moody’s stunning illustrations, and explore:Essential sketchbook supplies and how to use themBasic painting and drawing techniquesColour theorySketching things around youProjects that include botanicals, birds, rural landscapes, urban scenes, and painting from your window (or phone)Ideas and way of filling your sketchbookTips for building a creative practice and making time for it – and youDiscover your inner creative, enjoy the process, and sketchbook your way to joyful wellbeing.  Read more

A runaway bride. A grumpy 600-year-old vampire pretending to be human. A disaster waiting to happen.What could possibly be the most infuriating thing to a vampire disgusted by the internet? A twenty-six-year-old social media influencer that just ran out on her cheating ex fiancé and insists on staying in Vlad’s quiet castle.But he needs money to repair his ancestral home, and Aubrey needs a place to lick her wounds after getting her heart broken.He is ready to have humans invading his space. He is not, however, ready for her.She wants to feed him garlic, parades around in tiny shorts, and incenses him at every turn. Can he really play house with a human? Especially one he just can’t seem to fight the urge to stay away from?The Holiday meets Dark Shadows in this “grumpy sunshine” romance.This is a spicy paranormal romcom featuring the grumpy/sunshine tropes. It is a full length romance with a Happily Ever After that features sexually explicit material and profanity. This book is intended for adults 18+. Read more

From the author of Abbey Road and Never a Dull Moment, the basis for AppleTV's 1971 documentary, come the stories of how rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, and more have survived, thrived, and remained the most powerful forces in music.When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July of 1985, we thought he was rock’s Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. As the forty years since have shown, he—and many others of his generation—were just getting started. This was the time when live performance took over from records. The big names of the ’60s and ’70s exploited the Age of Spectacle that Live Aid had ushered in to enjoy the longest lap of honor in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else in the business had retired. This is a story without precedent, a story in which Elton John plays a royal funeral, Mick Jagger gets a knighthood, Bob Dylan picks up a Nobel Prize, The Beatles become, if anything, bigger than The Beatles, and it’s beginning to look as though all of the above will, thanks in a large part to technology, be playing in Las Vegas forever. Read more

"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston GlobeA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality—a brilliant reflection of humanity itself.The word “medieval” conjures images of the “Dark Ages”—centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic, Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly 1,000 years later with the poet Dante—inspired by that same twinkling celestial canopy—writing an epic saga of heaven and hell that endures as a masterpiece of literature today.  The Bright Ages reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to us. The Middle Ages may have been a world “lit only by fire” but it was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics.  The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert. Read more