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Teach your children their first Christmas words with this beautifully illustrated book that features iconic Christmas imagery. This practical and fun guide is an excellent way for beginner readers to learn to read.

Snobbity Snowman has everything a snowman could possibly want: a shiny hat, freshly-picked noses and enough pride to last a lifetime. In fact, he is so selfish and shortsighted that he fails to see the instance his life starts falling apart. What disasters must take place to open his charcoal...

“There’s really no relief for pain, is there? You either get it now, or you get it later. Or both. But you always get it. Pain makes absolutely freakin’ sure of that.” – Juliet Brynn must start her life over again in her newly-divorced mom’s run-down apartment, and at a new school where...

The Dragon Under My House, a children’s fantasy novel, tells us the story of Ellie Brown who one day finds herself in a book. There she meets a cat with many secrets who appears to be a human in his free time, and a mysterious sorcerer who is somehow connected with the cat.Ellie Brown is...

Aline promised her dying father that she would marry well. Eustace is a mere knight, a sworn man loyal to his lord. But their passion for horses unites them, and on fast illicit rides they discover a greater passion for each other. Now they face a stark choice: to break their sacred oaths - or else their hearts.

"Penso che se il diavolo non esiste, ma l'ha creato l'uomo, questi l'ha creato a sua immagine e somiglianza" (F. Dostoevskij - I Fratelli Karamazov) Lucrezia, un'aspirante giornalista che si occupa di necrologi, si ritrova coinvolta in un bizzarro mistero: un certo Filippo Ricasoli...

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712 – 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta (a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, actually more often print, of a cityscape or some other vista), a member of the Venetian School. His early vedutas show influence both from Canaletto and Luca Carlevarijs....

Chartres Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia are emanations of the same idea: celestial Jerusalem. There are deep similarities between the two temples, with intrinsic messages that are usually ignored. Gaudí was inspired by Chartres Cathedral to design and build the Sagrada Família. He and the Maitre...

With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. He was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt and important figurative painter of the early 20th century....

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose...

Winslow Homer was American painter, illustrator and etcher, one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists and is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the United States and its greatest watercolorist. Nominally a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on...

William Blake was English artist, draughtsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet, one of the most remarkable figures of the Romantic period. In art as in life Blake was an individualist who made a principle of nonconformity. He had a prejudice against painting in oils on canvas and experimented with...

Vincent van Gogh practiced a variety of occupations, including that of an art dealer and pastor, before deciding to become a painter at the age of 27. During his artistic career, which lasted 10 years - from 1880 to 1890 - he created about 900 paintings and above than 1100 drawings, watercolors and...

In Feng Shui love, marriage and family are synonymous. Romance is not a goal for itself - lonely people could discover their love, but they should not think that Feng Shui is a way of providing romance throughout their lives. Feng Shui has the potential to create what the Chinese call "hey"...