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Let this exquisite coloring book take you on a captivating journey through the woods from the comfort of home. The 31 realistic and beautifully detailed wildlife drawings include a bald eagle, black bear, deer, elk, hedgehog, porcupine, raccoon, red fox, skunk, wolf, and dozens more forest animals posed amid gorgeous natural settings. Get ready to relax, unwind, and enjoy the wonders of nature as you add color to these stunning scenes. Plus, the art is printed on one side only, and the pages are perforated for easy removal and display.

Rudolph Fisher's outstanding debut novel The Walls of Jericho, published in 1928, explores race and class issues during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance through the lens of Black lawyer Fred Merrit, who buys a home in a white neighborhood bordering Harlem. What progresses is a satirical journey through Merrit's life as he encounters the racism of his new white neighbors as well as racism and classism among the residents of Black Harlem. This edition includes four of Fisher's short stories that capture the Black Jazz Age urban experience, initially published in the iconic magazine The Atlantic Monthly: "City of Refuge," "The Promised Land," "Ringtail," and "Blades of Steel."

Angela Porter's wonderfully unique, fun-to-color entangled designs invite you to embrace your daydreams...any time! Colorists can unplug and unwind with these 31 whimsical illustrations featuring a wondrous array of imaginative landscapes, seascapes, and skyscapes embellished with hearts, flowers, rainbows, sunshine, plus many other playful designs. The art is printed on one side only, and the pages are perforated for easy removal and display.

Sharpen your mind and flex your mental muscles with this light and witty collection of 113 brainteasers! The dynamic compilation features the Four Famous Problems, including Archimedes' Cattle Problem, Impossible Division, and Apple and Unit Problems. Additional brainteasers cover a variety of mathematical topics, from distance and measurements to money, speed, time, and more. Problems are primarily solved using the mathematics of daily life--addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions--plus algebra and clear, logical thinking. Most have solutions; some have more than one, while others are left to the skills of the reader. A captivating experience for puzzle aficionados.

A wonderfully witchy way to relax and unwind! Enter the magical realm of witchcraft with this captivating coloring book. The 31 enchanting illustrations--many with bewitching black borders and backgrounds--feature celestial designs, crystals and candles, butterflies and moths, flowers and herbs, and many more mystical symbols of the modern witch. Conjure your creative spirit as you add color and charm to these spellbinding designs.

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Laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. This volume features selections by legendary poets Robert Frost, Edward Lear, and Carolyn Wells; renowned writers Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mark Twain; and world leaders Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Queen Elizabeth I, and President Woodrow Wilson. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm. Enjoy common varieties, including geographical and bawdy limericks, as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Travel the world with a man from Nantucket and a young lady of Niger. Explore the animal kingdom with a fly and a flea in a flue and a pelican with food stuffed in his beak. Experience the mundane, such as a tooting tutor tutoring two tooters, and the peculiar, including walking around a room that has no floor. With classics from the golden age and contemporary verse, this irresistible, rib-tickling anthology has something for everyone, from humor buffs to poetry lovers.

Would you like to confound your friends, amaze your acquaintances, amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings? Mastering a few card tricks will allow you to do all that and more. With the help of this book, anyone can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks. In fact, mastery of just the first chapter will enable you to perform a half-dozen astounding and entertaining sleights of hand. The authors, both noted authorities on magic, present complete, easy-to-understand explanations of shuffles, flourishes, the glide, the glimpse, false shuffles and cuts, the pass, the classic force, and many other techniques. These will enable card handlers to perform over 100 mind-boggling feats of card magic, including Thought Stealer, Gray's Spelling Trick, Do as I Do, Now You See It, Obliging Aces, Rapid Transit, Kangaroo Card, A Tipsy Trick, and dozens of others. Illustrated with more than 120 clear line cuts that make the explanations easy to follow, this exciting introduction to card conjuring will enable even beginners to develop professional-level skill and the ability to perform tricks guaranteed to astound family and friends. Unabridged Dover (1999) republication of the work published by World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1951 (first edition, Harper & Brothers, 1948).

Fascinating, painstakingly researched study of occult beliefs and practices in Celtic Britain includes intriguing discussions of the Druids, Arthurian cults, mystery of the Holy Grail, Celtic spells and charms, black magic, and many other topics.