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Stuff Every Graduate Should Know

Everything you need to take on—or take over!—the real world
Just because you’ve got a diploma in hand doesn’t mean you know everything! This ultimate pocket-sized guide for life after school is filled with information for every step of the road to adulthood, including:
 
• How to Find Your First Apartment
• How to Write the Perfect Résumé
• How to Survive Living with Your Parents
• How to Make (and Stick to!) a Budget
 
Plus tips for staying in shape, building a professional wardrobe, throwing a real dinner party, and everything else a newly minted grown-up needs to know.
 
Partial TOC:
Personal Stuff:
How to Build a Grown-Up Wardrobe
How to Take Care of Yourself When You’re Sick
How to Stay in Shape
Medical Care 
How to Handle Depression
Living Stuff:
Apartment Hunting
How to Coexist with Roommates
How to Deal with Living with Your Parents
How to Make a Meal Plan and Grocery Shop
How to Clean House
Job and Money Stuff:
How to Write a Résumé
How to Nail an Interview
How to Understand Your Paycheck
How to Make (and Stick to) a Basic Budget
How to Buy a Car
Social Stuff:
How to Make New Friends
How to Host a Dinner Party
How to Ask Someone Out
How to Break Up with Someone
How to Attend a Wedding

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Dad Magazine

Packed with dad jokes and parenting humor, this parody magazine is the perfect gift for Fathers Day or cool dads anytime.

This hilarious dad-centric satire is the first magazine written exclusively by dads, for dads! Complete with hard-hitting feature reporting (“What’s Going On with Your Neighbor's Lawn?”), in-depth lifestyle articles (“How to Talk to Your Son About Growing A Beard”), fashion tips (“Buying Shoes on eBay: A Guide”), and insightful opinion pieces (“These Smoke Detectors Are Too Damn Sensitive, If You Ask Me”), this is the perfect faux periodical for dads of every age, facial-hair style, and sandals/socks combo. Photos, illustrations, and humorous (fake) advertisements throughout showcase all the frustrations, failures, and funny moments that make up the face of modern fatherhood.

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Stuff Every Bride Should Know

Wedding planning doesn’t have to be stressful! From budgeting to bachelorette parties to writing your own vows, this pocket-sized manual is packed with tips to plan, execute, and enjoy the perfect engagement and wedding. It’s a personal wedding planner you can carry in your pocket . . . the perfect engagement present or planning handbook for any soon-to-be bride.
 
Including:
• How to Set a Budget
• How to Select Your Attendants
• How to Find the Dress
• How to Make Your Guests Comfortable
• How to Handle Showers and Parties
 
Plus tips on choosing your guests, picking your vendors, selecting the details, handling delicate situations, and much, much more!

MICHELLE PARK LAZETTE is a writer and journalist in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the co-owner of Story of Your Life, a company that interviews for and designs front-page newspaper stories about engaged couples and their relationships.

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Stuff Every Golfer Should Know

This little book teaches everything you’ll need to get your golf lifestyle up to par.

Discover:

• How to Calculate Your Handicap
• How to Play in the Rain
• How to Keep Fit for Golfing
• Games to Play within the Game
• The Best Golf Travel Destinations

Plus tricks for reading the green, tips for playing in the wind, a guide to course etiquette, advice on golfing with kids, and much more!

Brian Bertoldo is a writer and avid golfer living in Salem, Massachusetts.

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Stuff Every Groom Should Know

From breaking the news to your friends to planning the ultimate bachelor party to melting cold feet, this pocket-sized manual is packed with tips to get smoothly from “yes!” to “I do.” Plus lists, dos and don’ts, and reference charts that make this stylish handbook the perfect gift for guys about to tie the knot. Author Eric San Juan provides plenty of tips to help grooms navigate the big day and beyond.

 

Eric San Juan is the author of Stuff Every Husband Should Know and editor of a seven-newspaper chain in central New Jersey. A decade into marriage, he is delighted to find that his wife and son still seem healthy and well fed.

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Stuff Every College Student Should Know

From the best-selling series of how-to guides comes Stuff Every College Student Should Know, the ultimate reference for every part of campus life. Packed with tips, tricks, and handy lists, the book gives college kids the lowdown on everything from pulling all-nighters to navigating dorm room drama to actually doing their own laundry. Covering everything from move-in day to graduation, this pocket-size handbook is the perfect gift for high-school seniors . . . because textbooks can teach you only so much. 

BLAIR THORNBURGH is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she earned a B.A. in medieval studies and delivered a pretty good commencement speech. She lives in Philadelphia. 

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