Great Reads – Books for All
“Read a great book just the other day — “The History of Glue” ——– I couldn’t put it down! ”
― Unknown
To pull together this book list, we scoured a year’s worth of reviews and best-of lists, polled our staff, and reached out to voracious readers and writers for their top picks. Spanning a variety of genres, from fiction to nonfiction to short stories and essays, these books look at life through a kaleidoscope of experience.
Machinima 🎥 Making Animated Movies
Aimed at movie buffs, animation and games enthusiasts, and hobby filmmakers who want to learn how to use 3D game engines to create computer-animated movies.
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors 🏴
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is the National Archives' official guide and is written in an accessible style.
Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺 Life Coach
How the machinations that enabled Putin to undermine the USA could also help you take control of your mundane life.
Feng Shui that Makes Sense - Kindle Edition
Easy Ways to Create a Home that FEELS as Good as it Looks. You don’t need to be a professional designer or a feng shui expert in order to have a beautiful, comfortable home.
The Night of the Hunter 📚 A Thriller (Vintage Movie Classic) Paperback
The bestselling, National Book Award–finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton’s expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.
Excalibur Omnibus 💥 Hardcover
Chris Claremont and Alan Davis' 1980s classic EXCALIBUR gets the Omnibus treatment!
Essentials of Landscape Composition 📚 🎨
Invaluable for students and teachers, this guide will help artists at every level bring landscapes to life.
Ultimate Paper Airplanes for Kids
The ultimate collection of easy-to-fold, high-performance planes for kids who are fascinated by aviation, technology, or origami.
'My Dad Is Amazing' 👨 Illustrated Book
My Dad Is Amazing!, featuring a mythical yeti - a joyful tribute to just how amazing parents (and their kids!) are.
Yoga Dogs 🐶 Hardcover 📚
Relax, breathe in and hold it, stretch and stop that tail from wagging.
The hilarious collection of photographs captures a broad cross-section of loveable canines doing yoga.
'No Hollywood Awards'
142 movies are covered in this volume, with the special added attraction of two articles about director Henry Hathaway and his movies.
Transient Desires 📚
In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called “an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,”
Amateur Hour ⚖️ Kamala Harris 📚
With exclusive reporting and a detective’s eye, Charlie Spiering delivers the first-ever deep dive into cackling Kamala's hilarious, incompetent, radical path to the vice presidency.
Goodnight, Sleepy Joe 📚 Paperback
Goodnight, Sleepy Joe is a satirical story about Joe Biden and his plethora of gaffes during his run for the Presidency. Another of our Presidential gifts.
Memory Craft 🧠 Improve Your Memory
Memory Craft introduces the best memory techniques humans have ever devised, from ancient times and the Middle Ages, to methods used by today's memory athletes.
Finger Puppet Board Book
Adorable nursery rhyme book with a built-in finger-puppet encouraging interactive finger play, which helps develop little muscles and build finger strength.
The Manga Artist's Workbook 💥 Lessons for Creating Your Own Characters
You'll learn the fundamental proportions of the manga face and figure, how to draw those large sparkling eyes, and how to create hairstyles and costumes that make each character unique. A sketchbook and art tutorial rolled into one portable journal, this workbook contains tracing paper, blank practice pages, and exercise to help you become a true manga artist.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Book 🌐 The Behind-the-Scenes Story of a Television Classic Paperback
Drawing on extensive interviews with the cast and crew of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Jon Heitland has assembled an incredibly comprehensive, fully illustrated account of the show's history.
📚 My Life In Comedy by Phyllis Diller
Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse is Phyllis Diller's own story about the struggle and the pain behind the comedy and the success.
Machinima For Dummies 🎬
Use this book to learn how you can, at little or no expense, make virtually any movie using Machinima.
Rich Dad Poor Dad 💰 What Rich Kids Learn
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki believes we have the power to makes changes in our lives, and live the rich life we deserve.
Cooking with Xi Jinping
With a tongue-in-cheek title that'll make you chuckle, 25 delectable Chinese dishes are presented by a surprising cast of 25 famous individuals from China. These personalities range from A-list celebrities to high-ranking government officials
Comic Manga Anime Sketch Book 👧🏻 for Drawing and Sketching
Do you love to draw or do you want to learn? Are you creative and want to keep your drawing projects in one place? Then grab our blank sketchbook now. Ideal for comics and mangas. Let your creativity run free and draw what it takes. The drawing book is DIN A4 and offers enough space for your ideas.
Kamala Harris 🇺🇸 The Truths We Hold 📚 Paperback
In 'The Truths We Hold' Kamala Harris draws on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her.
It's Not Easy Being a Bunny 🐰
Bunnyhood is for him! The short, repeating text is ideal for beginners and the bright, humorous cartoons will get immediate attention.
Words to Live By
An inspiring collection of quotes that offer wisdom, courage, and hope. Written with wit and warmth, this book is the ideal companion to tuck beside your bed.
Collecting Vintage Video Games
This guide will give you helpful tips on buying some of those "old" video games like we used to play on the Atari, among others.
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump 💐🦋🌷
What poetry lurks in Donald Trump? Discover the mercurial lyrical genius of Donald Trump today! It’s a new word order.
Memoirs of a Professional Cad 📚
Out of print for many decades, Memoirs of A Professional Cad is one of the classic Hollywood memoirs, from one of its most enduring and inimitable stars.
Good Moaning France 🇫🇷
Now you can 'spook Fronch' like the policeman in ’Allo ’Allo!
Based on a favourite character from the BBC TV sitcom.
I Spy Fun Interactive Thanksgiving Book 🍂
I Spy Book For Toddlers - A Fun Interactive Coloring and Guessing Game for 3-6 year about Thanksgiving & Autumn.
Battlefields in Miniature ⚔️ Wargames Terrain
The clear, step-by-step instructions are clearly illustrated by numerous photographs of the work in progress & Paul's inspirational finished pieces.
The ChatGPT Millionaire 🤖
This is the simplest guide on how to make money quickly and easily with ChatGPT (Updated for GPT-4)
The Greatest Stories Never Told 📜
History isn't always made by great armies colliding or by great civilizations rising or falling. Sometimes it's made when a chauffeur takes a wrong turn, a scientist forgets to clean up his lab, or a drunken soldier gets a bit rowdy.
Fill in the Love Gift Journal ❤️❤️
Simple prompts make it easy to express yourself. Just complete each line and you have a uniquely personal gift your loved one will read again and again.
40 Projects - Building a Backyard Homestead 🏡
Building a chicken tractor, chicken coop, beehives, installing fences, self-watering garden beds, aquaponics, hydroponics, solar & wind powered systems & more...
Yo, Blair!: Tony Blair's Disastrous Premiership
This book address one simple question: "Why did Blair end up being such an obsequious servant to US policy on Iraq?"
Art of Machinima 🎥 Game-Based Filmmaking
This book contains a wealth of tips, tricks, and solid techniques to creating your own Machinima films from some of the best creative minds in the industry.
The Complete Wedding Planner & Organizer 🔔
If you are getting married or know someone that is, this Wedding Planner is the 'must have' bridal gift this wedding season.
Feng Shui Bible ♋️ Definitive Guide to Improving Your Life, Home, Health, & Finances
Real life applications and examples enhance lucid explanations of the fundamental concepts: chi energy, yin and yang, the five elements, and eight trigrams.
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