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The Escape Artist

“Meltzer is a master and this is his best. Not since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have you seen a character like this. Get ready to meet Nola. If you’ve never tried Meltzer, this is the one.” (Harlan Coben) 

Who is Nola Brown?

Nola is a mystery. 

Nola is trouble. 

And Nola is supposed to be dead. 

Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she’s dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim “Zig” Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. 

Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of those who die on top-secret missions. Nola was a childhood friend of Zig’s daughter and someone who once saved his daughter’s life. So when Zig realizes Nola is still alive, he’s determined to find her. Yet as Zig digs into Nola’s past, he learns that trouble follows Nola everywhere she goes. 

Nola is the US Army’s artist-in-residence – a painter and trained soldier who rushes into battle, making art from war’s aftermath and sharing observations about today’s wars that would otherwise go overlooked. On her last mission, Nola saw something nobody was supposed to see, earning her an enemy unlike any other, one who will do whatever it takes to keep Nola quiet. 

Together, Nola and Zig will either reveal a sleight of hand being played at the highest levels of power or die trying to uncover the US Army’s most mysterious secret – a centuries-old conspiracy that traces back through history to the greatest escape artist of all: Harry Houdini. 

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Quotes: 5 in 1: Business, Artist, Politics, Science, Author

1. Most Successful Entrepreneurs of all Time

Entrepreneurs are ambitious proactively find and seek-out opportunities, focused, goal-oriented, disciplined, well-organized and meticulous. hard workers who love what they do. not afraid to take risks, not afraid to make mistakes, and face failure, have a knack for innovation and creativity. know what it takes to be successful and have excellent role models. They are also willing to fail and start over again, taking the lessons they’ve learned to create something new and improve.

2. Most Successful artists of all Time

Art is one of the only four ways in which a human being can have an unmediated experience with those essential things that are beyond description in words. These things include love and faith and hope, which are among the most critical and meaningful aspects of the human experience, but are totally incapable of being fully expressed in words.

3. Most Successful scientists of all Time

Scientists are important for the world because they help people understand the way the world works in very specific ways. Human beings have spent a lot of time figuring out how to stay alive and be happy, and science has been a powerful tool for staying alive, though it doesn’t always make us happy. Science is one particular way of looking at the universe. It’s a system of thought, a way in which we can organize what we know to better understand the way things work.

4. Most Successful Politicians of all Time

History is filled with a vast number of inspirational political leaders. A large section of the society was impressed with these political leaders and considered their belief and sayings as revelations from God Himself. The people had something called a ‘blind faith’ in those leaders.

5. Most Successful Authors of all Time

The pen is truly mightier than the sword, and if you’re a book enthusiast you know that to be true. Some of history’s most influential people were authors, writing the most important literature and political works of all time. Writers have shaped human history, capturing some of the most important historical events and reflecting the culture of a changing world around us in a profound way.

6. Most Successful poets of all Time

A poet is a possessor of unusual sensitivity or insight. He is able to express things in a beautiful and romantic way. He is an imaginative, a creative and artistic person. High perception and imagination with profound insight is what that differentiates between a poet and a layman. A multicolored arc in the sky is just a rainbow to a layman but a poet has greater capacity to receive sense impressions about it to express his powerful feelings.

How will this book help you?

Through this book, we will explore the greatest life lessons and secrets to success from The Most Successful People of all Times. Reading a quote or two everyday will motivate you achieve your goals. However, motivation is worthless without consistency. Therefore, put consistent action to achieve success. I hope this book will help you towards your journey.

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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.

When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

Product Features

  • 10 Things nobody told you about being creative!
  • A collection of positive messages and exercises to realize your artistic side
  • An inspiring and entertaining read
  • By artist and writer Austin Kleon
  • A New York Times Best-seller
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Martin Cheek Mosaic Artist: Creative Inspiration

In recent years, the ancient art of mosaic has become increasingly popular worldwide, showing up everywhere from the studios of fine artists to the pages of interior decorating magazines. Mosaics: Design and Inspiration is perfectly poised to capture that enthusiasm.

The seventh book by internationally acclaimed mosaic artist and teacher Martin Cheek, it was written in direct response to inquiries and requests from both newly taught and long-established mosaic artists. It is simultaneously a how-to, full of expert advice about everything from initial design to the last details of a finished piece—and a sourcebook of inspiration, jammed with images, ideas, and concepts that aspiring mosaic artists can take and make their own. Many of the images of Cheek’s own work represent the first time they’ve been featured in a book, and their intricate beauty is sure to fire the imaginations of artists, decorators, and art lovers. 

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1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations (1000 Series)

Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color book

Journals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life. Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.

This is the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in one eye-catching, visual format. Artists can embrace and experiment with this medium and will benefit from this rich collection.

Product Features

  • 1000+ Journal pages to inspire
  • Great for those who love mixed media journaling
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

Nineteen-year-old Greg Sestero met Tommy Wiseau at an acting school in San Francisco. Wiseau’s scenes were rivetingly wrong, yet Sestero, hypnotized by such uninhibited acting, thought, “I have to do a scene with this guy.” That impulse changed both of their lives. Wiseau seemed never to have read the rule book on interpersonal relationships (or the instructions on a bottle of black hair dye), yet he generously offered to put the aspiring actor up in his LA apartment. Sestero’s nascent acting career first sizzled, then fizzled, resulting in Wiseau’s last-second offer to Sestero of co-starring with him in The Room, a movie Wiseau wrote and planned to finance, produce, and direct—in the parking lot of a Hollywood equipment-rental shop.

Wiseau spent $6 million of his own money on his film, but despite the efforts of the disbelieving (and frequently fired) crew and embarrassed (and frequently fired) actors, the movie made no sense. Nevertheless, Wiseau rented a Hollywood billboard featuring his alarming headshot and staged a red carpet premiere. The Room made $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. One reviewer said that watching The Room was like “getting stabbed in the head”.

The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero’s laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” (Entertainment Weekly), which is now an international phenomenon, with Wiseau himself beloved as an oddball celebrity. Written with award-winning journalist Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist is an inspiring tour de force that reads like a page-turning novel, an open-hearted portrait of an enigmatic man who will improbably capture your heart.

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The Artist Unique: Discovering Your Creative Signature Through Inspiration and Techniques

Make your mark your way!

Every artist seeks to stand apart from the crowd. But how? Let author Carmen Torbus inspire you to new creative highs in this collection of hands-on techniques and heartfelt stories from 16 artists who have worked through their own artistic struggles and stalls to emerge triumphant, with looks uniquely their own.

Whether art is new to you, or you have been at it awhile and are having trouble discovering your own style, this encouraging book will guide you to experiment with different mediums, techniques and possibilities to make a mark that is exclusively yours. Inside you’ll find: 17 of the artists’ favorite mixed-media techniques shown step by step, with suggestions for how to make them your own Beautiful finished art illustrating how individual artists use and combine these techniques in their own work Easy worksheets to help reveal your artistic skills, strengths and preferences A quick-start guide to various mediums, mark makers and creative paraphernalia Lots of tips and advice for putting yourself into your art Embrace who you are and find out what defines you as an artist. Make your art far from ordinary–become the artist UNIQUE!

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Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist

Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping your creative well full, an illustrated guide to healing herbs and plants, basic yoga poses and breathing exercises, and tips for moving your artistic career forward. Alena Hennessy’s illustration style combines nature, whimsey, delicacy, and a modern sensibility; vibrant pen and ink illustrations accompany relevant quotes ofinspiration, tips, and creative journal exercises. Cultivating Your Creative Life is not only an interactive creativity guide; it is a work of art, in itself—a beautiful, collectible volume—to save and to savor, or to give as a gift to the special creative person in your life.

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Just Get Out There: Achieving Abundance, Self-Empowerment and Professional Success as an Artist Entrepreneur

JUST GET OUT THERE gilli moon’s new (2nd) book, is the Artist’s bible to achieve abundance, self-empowerment and professional success as an Artist entrepreneur. 300+ pages filled with in-depth tips, tools, steps and resources on getting out there as an Artist, all the while achieving personal, financial and professional success and joy. JUST GET OUT THERE covers topics such as defining your uniqueness; building your dream and creating a plan around your goals; balancing the art with the ‘business’ through time management and prioritization techniques; fundamentals in producing, releasing, marketing, promotion, performing and touring; using the Internet; and a plethora of in-depth tips, tools, steps and resources on getting out there as an Artist. The aim of this book is to educate, nourish and inspire any musician, singer-songwriter or indeed ANY ARTIST, who have chosen creativity as their professional passion. Ultimately it’s about enjoying the journey along your path to creative success. JUST GET OUT THERE is a handbook, a guide, a blog, a reality check, a heartfelt song which Author Gilli Moon inspires you to live your dream, find the inspiration within, and just get out there. Where creativity is your passion, this book is your bible for everything you need to be, know and do!