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Cheaters never prosper But Gumball and Darwin don't know that! While the Watterson boys are grounded, their classmates advance ahead of them in the new, super-popular video game Monster Fight Friends. A mysterious and forbidden cheat code is just what they need. Too bad it unleashes a gigantic, tech-crazy kaiju onto the streets of Elmore!
"A big ol' storm has set its sights on Elmore but the Watterson family isn't going to let some bad weather spoil their day, at least not until everything starts going wrong! After a power outage forces Gumball and Darwin to figure out how to have fun without video games--not an easy task--Richard leads a catastrophic attempt to fix a leak in the ceiling so one measly puddle will cease driving his household absolutely crazy. But their troubles don't end there. It's one calamity after the other as the Wattersons try and make it to bluer skies!"--Provided by publisher.
After a magician casts a spell that turns Elmore into a place of danger and misadventures, it is up to Wizard Darwin, Knight Anais, and Jester Gumball to rescue the citizens of Elmore from being stuck in the Middle Ages forever.
Gumball and Anais are forced to choose between letting Mr. Dad and Darwin follow their dream of entering the Annual Elmore Bake-off or save the world, after future Gumball warns them of the repercussions of the current bake-off champion losing.
Gumball has his sights on one thing: getting the new limited-edition action figure of video game hero Knife Fightgood?except the package turns up missing when he sleeps through the delivery. Knowing the worst has happened--that someone's stolen Knife Fightgood--it's up to Gumball and Darwin to find him! Along with Anais, the boys set off through town following the clues to a mysterious underground system beneath Elmore and uncover a truth they never thought possible. From writer Megan Brennan (Steven Universe, Pencil Pup) and artist Kate Sherron (Regular Show) comes Elmore's greatest detective caper yet as Gumball and Darwin channel their favorite fictional heroes to unravel the mystery of the Tunnel Kingdom.
Part of the generation of architects who were trained to draw both by hand and with digital tools, Nalina Moses recently returned to hand drawing. Finding it to be direct, pleasurable, and intuitive, she wondered whether other architects felt the same way. Single-Handedly is the result of this inquiry. An inspiring collection of 220 hand drawings by more than forty emerging architects and well-known practitioners from around the world, this book explores the reasons they draw by hand and gives testimony to the continued vitality of hand drawing in architecture. The powerful yet intimate drawings carry larger propositions about materials, space, and construction, and each one stands on its own as a work of art.
Why do some book covers instantly grab your attention, while others never get a second glance? Fusing word and image, as well as design thinking and literary criticism, this captivating investigation goes behind the scenes of the cover design process to answer this question and more. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW As the outward face of the text, the book cover makes an all-important first impression. The Look of the Book examines art at the edges of literature through notable covers and the stories behind them, galleries of the many different jackets of bestselling books, an overview of book cover trends throughout history, and insights from dozens of literary and design luminaries. Co-authored by celebrated designer and creative director Peter Mendelsund and scholar David Alworth, this fascinating collaboration, featuring hundreds of covers, challenges our notions of what a book cover can and should be.
Anais is having a hard time dealing with a new exchange student, and decides to challenge him in a sport. This works until the whole school gets drawn into an intergalactic showdown with a made-up sport as the battle field.
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
