13 best electronic arts friend gifts on sales

Product description

Marvel makes cinematic history as it unites the Super Hero team of a lifetime. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) assemble together for the first time ever in this epic, action-packed blockbuster alongside Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Director Joss Whedon creates an unprecedented masterpiece that has become a global phenomenon. Packed with spectacular special effects and great bonus features, MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS will thrill your family over and over!

Product description

Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). Milo expects an easy payday, but nothing is ever easy with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other – until they find themselves on the run for their lives.

Product features

Positive "Go Girl!" Designs

Inside this book you'll find 30 encouraging, empowering designs just waiting for you to add your favorite colors and bring them to life!

Fully Colored Examples

Artist Jess Volinski has provided 9 fully colored examples, along with the color palettes she chose, to spur your imagination and encourage your creativity!

Doodle Your Own Patterns

Get creative! There are lots of areas reserved for you to add your own special details, so go ahead and put yourself onto each page!

Explore the Whole Series:

Notebook Doodles isn't just another kid's coloring book series. Its empowering art statements are designed specifically for the design-savvy tween who thinks kids' books are too juvenile and mom's adult coloring books are too, well... adult!

Notebook Doodles books offer fun, fresh, and exciting coloring & activity books and journals for kids ages 8 to 12. (Shh! Adults love them, too!)

Inside each Notebook Doodles coloring book, you'll find designs and activities packed with interactive coloring pages on fun themes. Young coloring enthusiasts will also find an art lesson in the front, fully colored examples, inspiring quotes to go with every design, perforated pages, and high-quality artist paper.

The Notebook Doodles lined journals and guided journals encourage creative writing and personal reflection, and come accented with cool art and confidence-boosting statements.

Start with any book in the series that inspires you, and welcome to Jess Volinski's happy & colorful world of Notebook Doodles!

Express Your Feelings

Color can be a great way to express yourself and your emotions. Inside Notebook Doodles books, you'll find 20 beautiful color palettes to try based on how you're feeling that day. Excited? Sad? Mysterious? Show it in your art!

Elements of Art in Action

Just like writers use words to tell a story, artists use visual elements like texture, form, color, and space to tell theirs! Explore the Elements of Art in Action in Jess Volinski's introductory artist's guide at the front of this book.

Experiment with Color

Jess demonstrates how to use her color palettes to the fullest, no matter which art materials you love to use, from crayons to brush pens. But there is no right or wrong when it comes to color. Make each design your own!

A Space for Reflection

The back of each page contains a positive, thought-provoking quote and a space for you to reflect and write down your thoughts and feelings. You could even write a nice note and then give your finished art to someone as a gift!

Product description

Jeff Dunham and his socially reckless "suitcase posse" are back in this highly anticipated follow-up to Arguing with Myself, his breakthrough television special and multi-platinum selling DVD release! What's next?

An ALL NEW show that is Bigger... Better... and Funnier than ever!

This time, Dunham welcomes two never-before-seen partners "Achmed the Dead Terrorist," and "Melvin the Superhero." Long-time favorites "Peanut," "Walter" and Jose Jalapeno...On a STEEK! are back in an entirely original show for everyone!

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham's second live-performance DVD, Spark of Insanity, is much funnier than his first, Arguing With Myself, perhaps because his new puppets allow him to cover more controversial territory beyond skits about family beefs and office humor. Though some puppets reappear, like the beloved Peanut, a purple monkey who loves wordplay, new characters emerge as the stars of this hour-long stand-up show. A tense laughter ripples through the audience, for example, when Dunham announces his wish to talk with a terrorist as he brings out Achmed the Dead Terrorist, a turban-sporting skeleton who's refrain is "I will kill you!" Previous show star, Jose Jalapeño, a Mexican chili pepper on a stick, returns for a discussion about whether the puppet has a green card. If his racial jokes rode a line slightly too Caucasian to clarify his point of view before, Dunham has achieved real satire in Spark of Insanity, showing his audience how ridiculous it is to create stereotypes of any sort. Additionally, Dunham mocks his own culture with Walter, a grumpy old white man whose parental chiding rings true for many. Moreover, Dunham impresses with his ventriloquism skills, and shows off some new vocalization techniques that will stun anyone interested in this fascinating art. --Trinie Dalton

Product features

An Invitation from Mark Nepo

This book is meant to be of use, to be a companion, a soul friend. It is a book of awakenings. To write this I’ve had to live it. It’s given me a chance to gather and share the quiet teachers I’ve met throughout my life. The journey of unearthing and shaping these entries has helped me bring my inner and outer life more closely together. It has helped me know and use my heart. It has made me more whole. I hope it can be such a tool for you.

March 4 | For What Are We Saving?

When I was ill, I faced the very real possibility of dying, and suddenly the little money I’d saved, however prudent I was, didn’t matter. It was all worthless. It became immediately clear that the only true purpose of money was to help make love work. When ill, I didn’t hesitate to make all those long-distance calls I always put off. I met friends at concerts and bought albums and sent flowers instead of waiting for the perfect occasion. I bought plane tickets to the Caribbean for my wife and my dearest friends—and we went!

Once well, I couldn’t go back to deferring my life under the guise of saving. I still save some, but now I feel compelled to use whatever money I can afford to make love work, to bring truth into being, to allow generosity and compassion to flourish. This is more than altruistic. It is necessary to be fully alive. It’s part of the wood that keeps the inner fire burning.

September 13 | Wisdom Creatures

As spirits in bodies we live like whales or dolphins, always swimming near the surface, forever compelled by a light from above that we can’t really make out. And just as the water brushes against the eyes of these fish as they make their way in and out of the deep, the days shape how we see.

So much is going on at any one time beneath what we show the world that all our feelings, all our thoughts and expressions, splash like water on those we surface before. In this way, every person when looked squarely in the eye is a wisdom-creature, full of things that cannot be said. Each of us a spirit-fish breaking through for love and air.

We often don’t take the risk or time to stand before another long enough for their truth to surface. This is what I need, for you to wait till I can get there, all fresh from the deep. After all the trouble we go through to find each other, we must wait over and over for our loved ones to break through with their wisdom.

December 17 | Healing Ourselves

One of the most difficult things about healing from being hurt by others is how to put wounds to rest when those who have hurt us will not give air to the wound, will not admit to their part in causing the pain. I have struggled with this deeply. Time and again, I find myself confusing the want for justice with the need for a witness of the wound. Physical wounds are hard to miss, but emotional wounds are seldom visible. This is why they must be looked at and acknowledged if we are ever to heal. Yet so often, our pain is compounded by the very human fact that we may never agree on the nature of what happened. If we do, we may never admit it to each other. Or the amends we feel we so deserve may go with the hurtful one to the grave.

As with so many other crucial negotiations of life, what’s required is to honor what lives within us. We must bear witness to ourselves, for there is no power as embracing or forgiving as the authority of that portion of God that lives in each of us.

Product description

Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is “another Tarantino masterpiece” (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!