Adult

The most splendid cities in the world --- some real, others imagined --- come alive under your hand. Open this book and let yourself be drawn into a world tour dotted with floating kingdoms in the sky and spooky cities, and taking you from the domes of Moscow to the top of the Eiffel Tower. This journey knows no limits!

Get your pens out, open this book, and discover Paris. Stroll the picturesque streets, cross the Seine, and live like the French do, in a world of bistros, flea markets, and opulent architecture. Feel the stress melt away as your inner artist comes alive.

Faces are the focus of this collection of more than 30 full-page portraits to color. Dreamlike visions of fantasy ladies feature elaborate halos of flowers, birds, hearts, geometrics, and other closely intertwined figures and shapes.

One of the most breathtaking creatures in nature, the butterfly has gone through a metamorphosis and emerged here as an abstract image of graphic design --- with dazzling results! Thirty-one illustrations of winged beauties are set against a variety of patterns that are inspired by textile designs: tulips, daffodils, roses, and bamboo, as well as waves, crescents, geometric shapes, and more.

With LOST OCEAN, Johanna Basford invites color-inners of all ages to discover an enchanting underwater world hidden in the depths of the sea. Through intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, color and embellish, readers will meet shoals of exotic fish, curious octopi and delicately penned seahorses. Visit coral reefs and barnacle-studded shipwrecks, discover intricate shells and pirate treasure.

This beautiful and interactive coloring book features delicate and highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations --- all waiting to be brought to life with color. As added entertainment, tiny garden creatures are hidden on the pages, waiting to be found, and a key and index are included in the back.

In the heart of Gascony, a fire ravages the warehouse of one of Armagnac’s top estates, killing the master distiller. Wine expert Benjamin Cooker is called in to estimate the value of the losses. But Cooker and his assistant Virgile want to know more. There is more than one disgruntled inhabitant in this small town. As we witness the time-honored process of Armagnac distillation and the day-to-day activities of the hunt, the market place, and the struggle for power and duck confit, we get a glimpse of the traditions of southwestern France where this mystery of possible arson and murder lies below the surface.

A man torn between two continents finds himself in a dangerous confrontation between tradition and corruption. Solo is a former cop who ran away from a dark past in France to start his life over again in Bamako, Mali, as a PI. An ordinary case turns out to be not so ordinary. The drug mule gets her throat slit, the French lawyer is too beautiful and too well-informed. The cocaine is too plentiful. This is classic noir with a modern twist set in Africa.

Marion Spicer spends her days examining auction catalogues and searching for stolen works of art. She is a top-notch investigator when it comes to 18th-century art. When she inherits a huge and very prestigious collection of pre-Columbian art from a father she never knew, her troubles begin. There are conditions attached: she must first find three priceless statues. Her father’s death sparked much greed, and Marion finds herself facing sharks, schemes, fences, traps, scams and attacks. Her quest draws her into a world where people will kill for a love of beauty.