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Everything a groomsman needs to know to handle even the most outrageous crisis, all in one hilarious pocket-sized gift book from the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series.

Turn any wedding party into a crack team of wedding survival experts with this funny pocket-sized guide. It’s the perfect tool to deal with any day-of disaster. Learn how to:

• Make an emergency cummerbund
• Revive a guest who has fainted
• Stop a bad toast
• Repair a dropped wedding cake
• And more!

Hand these out to your crew and relax in the knowledge that they can handle even the toughest situations!

A certified death doula provides an accessible and digestible guide to dealing with the legal, financial logistical hurdles of a parent’s death—without losing your sense of humor.

Whether you’ve recently lost a parent or you’re just trying to plan for the toughest day of your life so far, you’re probably experiencing a lot of dizzying emotions. Unfortunately, you’re also going to need to enter an overwhelming maze of paperwork and bureaucracy.

But you don’t have to do it alone.

After losing both parents, Becky Robison devoted herself to making death and postdeath logistics easier on others. She draws on her own experience, plus interviews with experts ranging from monument makers to morticians, to hold your hand through:

• Asking your parents about their end-of-life wishes while you can
• Getting a body buried, cremated, or donated to science
• Planning a funeral
• Securing a death certificate
• Dealing with your parents’ property—or debt
• Handling even more tricky issues you never wanted to be in charge of
• And still being able to laugh, a little, sometimes

Nothing about this is easy. The good news is you have someone on your side.

This pocket-sized guide is the perfect gift for birdwatchers, bird owners, and anyone fascinated by our feathered friends

Bird-brained: it’s not just an insult anymore. These tiny dinosaurs have captured the human imagination since the dawn of time, and this illustrated, accessible guide covers it all—from bird anatomy and behavior to migration patterns and bird-watching tips. Experts and bird beginners alike will learn about:

• How dinosaurs became birds
• Bird behavior: migration, murmuration, and mobbing
• Birder lingo 101
• How to identify backyard birds
• Decoding birdsong & “talking” birds
• How we domesticated birds

With handy diagrams, helpful tips, and fun trivia, this handy compendium is the perfect companion for anyone looking to get a bird’s-eye view on our avian allies, whether in the great outdoors or at their window birdfeeder.

From the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series, a hilarious and highly portable manual for surviving any car disaster, from hurricane weather to high-speed pursuits.

Getting into a car is the most dangerous thing most of us do every day. And it’s not just the risk of an accident. What if there’s a blizzard? What if your brakes malfunction? What if you’re stuck in traffic and you need to pee?

Good news: The Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: Driving is here to help. Learn how to:

• Evade a pursuer on the highway
• Escape from a trunk
• Drive down a flight of stairs
• Bail out at high speeds
• And more!

Keep one in your glove compartment at all times!

“The found-family vampire Hallmark movie I didn’t know I needed.”—Jenna Levine, USA Today best-selling author of My Roommate Is a Vampire

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets What We Do in the Shadows in this bitingly  funny  supernatural romance about a vampire finding herself and falling in love during the Christmas season.

Tiffenie may be three hundred years old, but she’s still a hot mess. The vampire is tragically single, works a dead-end job at a blood bank, and spends her nights marathoning Hallmark Channel movies with her cat.

When Tiffenie inherits a fixer-upper home in Valentine, Vermont, thanks to a case of mistaken (okay, stolen) identity, she seizes the chance to get her life back on track. With her newly undead neighbor (it was an accident!) in tow, Tiffenie is determined to live out her holiday rom-com dreams in this picture-perfect town.

But between the mystery of her stolen identity, small-town drama, and the arrival of her insufferable vampire ex-boyfriend Vlad, getting her happily ever after with a hot Christmas tree farmer won’t be easy. To uncover what she truly desires, Tiffenie must embark on a journey of self-acceptance for the first time in her immortal life. Luckily, it’s never too late to start therapy.

An alchemist and his young nephew hunt down a legend in this profound and unsettling speculative Western, for fans of Karen Russell and Victor LaValle.

Alone in a frontier town in the brand-new state of Washington, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam, a self-taught alchemist, was killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn’t exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle’s nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set out together to track the monster down so they can use its blood in an alchemical formula that will bring Liam back to life.

It’s a hard and haunted journey through the Northwestern frontier. The salamander produces surreal nightmares and waking dreams of a blighted, burning future. And Gentle and Kitt soon find themselves pursued by a bloodthirsty hunter, a sadistic judge, and a doomsday cult, all of whom have their own plans for the river monster. Armed with nothing but Liam’s alchemical notebooks, they must not only find the salamander but learn to understand it—and the terrifying visions it causes—before it’s too late.

Dark and compelling, The Great Work is an arcane adventure through the wilderness of friendship and the rotten heart of the early American empire.