Product Description: At age forty-seven, Whit Alexander, the American cofounder of the Cranium board game, decided to start a new business selling affordable goods and services to low-income villagers in Ghana, West Africa. His brother, Max, a journalist, came along to tell the story...read more

Product Description: Dogs can't knit. But they sure can wear it well.Could your Chinese crested powder puff rock a vintage ruffled bonnet? Does your pug pine for a fabulous ten-gallon cowboy hat? Or perhaps your bulldog hopes to cast off his thuggish street cred with a preppy letterman sweater?Featuring more than 25 super-cute knitting patterns and embellishments, Outrageously Adorable Dog Knits is a fun and simple way to swathe your four-legged friend in the very best of handmade finery!With clearly explained step-by-step instructions and inspiringly hilarious photographs, this unique book provides adorable knitting projects and how-to advice for novice knitters and precocious purlers alike...read more

Product Description: Five side-splitting years in the life of a big-city journalist who decided to pack it in and head for the simple life in rural Maine. But the simple life turned out to be a complicated business. While his wife homeschooled their two kids on a boulder-strewn farm, Alexander battled firewood poachers, guinea hens, corporate polluters and his own expectations—eventually running for local office...read more

Product Description: The Murray’s serve up invaluable advice and strategy on how sandwich generation Baby Boomers can take care of their kids, their parents, and themselves.

Citing the challenges facing today's middle-aged baby boomers, including childcare and aging parent care as well as fewer remaining earning years, a guide to managing one's personal finances provides coverage of such topics as 401ks, health-care costs, and college expenses.

Combines 160 recipes and advice on how to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs in a volume by the seasonal Arrows restaurant chefs that includes instructions on how to build an herb box, select heirloom tomatoes, roast salmon on a cedar plank, and more. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)