Books published by publisher Big Golden Publishing

GIFT IDEAS | CRAFTS, HOBBIES & HOME | CALLIGRAPHY & LETTERING Welcome to Calligraphy and Hand Lettering Volume 1!This book is meant to introduce you to calligraphy and hand lettering—which, as you may know, are slightly different. Calligraphy is the forming of uniform letters whereas hand lettering lets you break the rules a bit and treat each letter as its own unique design. You’ll practice not only the basics of both crafts but also explore your own style of creativity and infuse it into your work. You don’t have to own a calligraphy dip pen or inkwell—everyday pens, markers, pencils—anything that you enjoy writing with will do. So, grab your favorite writing tool and let’s get started! Practice Makes Progress! Product Details: For heavy pens & brushes we recommend using blotter paperPrinted on bright white, smooth paper Premium matte-finish cover design Perfect for all lettering mediums High quality 60lb (90gsm) paper stock Large format 8.5" x 11.0" (215mm x 280mm) pages

Liking Myself is an encouraging book and a valuable resource for building self-esteem and emotional stability in children 5 to 11 years of age. By writing or drawing responses to a variety of self-esteem activities, children develop social and emotional skills. The book teaches children to listen to and talk about feelings. They learn to manage the full range of their emotions including anxiety, anger, depression, and being overwhelmed without hurting others.

This simple little book is powerful. Its words are alive and, like an elixir, they hold the keys to the doorway of change. Before I understood the message written on these pages, I couldn’t stop smoking cigarettes. Little did I know, that white knuckling didn’t work, at least for me, because smoking is secondary to something else—emotion. The feelings I had or, didn’t have, surrounding the thought of inhaling smoke, were the driving force behind my habit. Through the application of this life altering information, I’ve turned the tables on emotion. It no longer controls me. Instead, I’ve learned to use emotion, as an effective tool, to depolarize my habit—and so can you.

GIFT IDEAS | COLORING BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS | HUMOROUS "My office crush is the vending machine." ---The Snarky Mandala Here's to all you road warriors and cubicle kings and queens; from middle management to associate to assistant (to the) regional managers. Grab this book, your colored pencils, and an adult beverage of your choice, and let the stress of work fade into the distance as you relax and meditate on these humor filled pages. Happy coloring! Product Details: Printed single-sided on bright white paper Premium matte-finish cover design Soothing seamless patterns on reverse pages Perfect for all colouring mediums Black background reverse pages to reduce bleed-through High quality 60lb (90gsm) paper stock Large format 8.5"x11.0" (22cmx28cm) pages

Sixteen-year-old Damien Locke has a plan: major in messing with people at the local supervillain university and become a professional evil genius, just like his supervillain mom. But when he discovers the shameful secret she's been hiding all these years, that the one-night stand that spawned him was actually with a superhero, everything gets messed up. His father's too moral for his own good, so when he finds out Damien exists, he actually wants him to come live with him and his goody-goody superhero family. Damien gets shipped off to stay with them in their suburban hellhole, and he has only six weeks to prove he's not a hero in any way, or else he's stuck living with them for the rest of his life, or until he turns eighteen, whichever comes first. To get out of this mess, Damien has to survive his dad's "flying lessons" that involve throwing him off the tallest building in the city--despite his nearly debilitating fear of heights--thwarting the eccentric teen scientist who insists she's his sidekick, and keeping his supervillain girlfriend from finding out the truth. But when Damien uncovers a dastardly plot to turn all the superheroes into mindless zombie slaves, a plan hatched by his own mom, he discovers he cares about his new family more than he thought. Now he has to choose: go back to his life of villainy and let his family become zombies, or stand up to his mom and become a real hero.

Brynna has passed an important test, but the long road to reclaiming her kingdom is still fraught with dangers. Bolstered by her growing army of loyal soldiers, as well as friends new and old, she takes strides to free her people from the tyrannical hold of Ilara. But alliances are fragile, and old foes bring new challenges to the would-be queen. And Brynna learns that trust is harder to come by than she first thought. The Veil of Trust is the third book in the bestselling Princess Vigilante series. Readers around the world have fallen in love with this fantastical world of seas and mountains, political intrigue, and masked mischief.

“My Brother Was an Only Child” was Jack Douglas’ very first humour book, having written for famous radio and television celebrities such as Jack Paar, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante, as well as TV shows such as “Adventures of Harriet and Ozzie”, “The George Gobel Show”, and “Laugh-In”. It perfectly captures the sense of humour prevalent in this era and is as refreshing and side-splittingly funny now as it was then.

Sarah Johnson is a high school junior with an overactive imagination, has a clueless mother, loves Shakespeare, and obsesses over boys. In all other ways, she is completely normal . . . until an enchantress bestows upon Sarah a mystical gift: a golden corset. The golden corset transforms Sarah overnight into a blonde model of a girl. Initially thrilled with her new body, Sarah is quickly forced to confront problems she'd never considered. How will her family react? Will her beauty earn her the social life she's always dreamed of? Will her crush finally notice her? How will she handle the wanted—and unwanted—attention she receives?Journey with Sarah through themes of identity, stereotypes, harassment, gender, friendship, and self-worth. Laugh at Sarah's theatrical inner dialogues, and learn with every plot twist what beauty does to the eyes of the beheld.

GIFT IDEAS | ACTIVITY BOOKS FOR KIDS | COLORING You are going to love this super cute coloring book specifically designed for girls between 3 and 10 years. It features 46 pages with adorable and inspirational designs as well as motivational quotes to color. Coloring is a wonderful activity for relaxation and stress-relief. This book is designed to improve self-esteem and confidence. So, grab your crayons, colored pencils and markers and start coloring!

FALLING IN LOVE ISN'T COMPLICATED...UNLESS IT'S WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND. A close, easygoing friendship can all change with just one kiss. Seventeen-year-old Remi Beaufort learns this the hard way when she plays a blindfolded kissing game at a party.She thinks she’s kissing Jeremy, the totally hot basketball player she’s been crushing on. And the kiss…it’s amazing. Heart-stopping, world-changing, toe-curling. The kiss makes her forget about her overbearing mother, the next-door neighbor’s drama, and the probability that she’ll fail her senior year. The best kiss of her life makes all that fall away.Until her blindfold falls off, and she realizes that instead of kissing her crush, she’s kissing Elijah, her best friend since third grade.Though she somehow manages to convince Elijah that he was kissing his girlfriend, Remi can’t get the thought of his lips on hers out of her head. As things between them grow more and more complicated—because it turns out her fantasizing about his mouth is more of a problem than it sounds—Remi has to make a choice: does she live the rest of her life loving her best friend in secret? Or does she tell the truth and risk ruining their friendship forever?Heart-melting and romantic, What Are Friends For? is a swoon-worthy best-friends-to-lovers story that will leave you crushing hard.

Over half century ago the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, that Joe Keaton, a vaudeville actor, was brutally mistreating his five-year old son. At each afternoon and evening performance the child, billed as “The Human Mop”, was slammed on the floor, hurled into the wings, and sometimes banged into bass drums. Unable to find a bruise or scratch on the lad, Mayor Van Wyck refused to ban the act. The “Human Mop” bounced on to worldwide fame as Buster Keaton, one of this century’s greatest comedians.In this intimate autobiography Buster Keaton tells his whole personal and professional story, beginning with his colourful and exciting childhood as the undentable tot in the “Three Keatons” whose proudest boast was having the rowdiest, roughest act in vaudeville. Buster has played with all the great ones, from George M. Cohen and Bojangles Robinson and Al Jolson to Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan and Red Skelton, during his sixty years as a star in vaudeville, silent and talking pictures, night clubs and television.Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle got him into the movies and taught him how to throw a custard pie. Buster could not even keep slapstick out of his eleven months as a draftee in our World War I army. He came out to help create the Golden Age of Comedy with his friends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Arbuckle, Mack Sennett and the Keystone Cops. Marital troubles and alcoholism once got Buster down, but could not keep him down.MY WONDERFUL WORLD OF SLAPSTICK was written with the collaboration of Charles Samuels, co-author of His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Ethel Waters’ best-selling autobiography. Buster Keaton’s Life Story will enchant and thrill all those who enjoy looking past the glitter and the grease paint into a magnificent performer’s mind and heart.