Discover the best cabin for your lifestyle and location with this illustrated guide featuring sixty-two floor plans for under one,zero feet.Design and build the comfortable cabin that perfectly suits your every desire. The sixty-two plans in Compact Cabins feature innovative storage solutions, clever use of outdoor space, mix-and-match modular elements, and off-the-grid energy options to help you create the cabin of your dreams—all in less than one,zero sq...

Discover the best cabin for your lifestyle and location with this illustrated guide featuring sixty-two floor plans for under one,zero feet.Design and build the comfortable cabin that perfectly suits your every desire. The sixty-two plans in Compact Cabins feature innovative storage solutions, clever use of outdoor space, mix-and-match modular elements, and off-the-grid energy options to help you create the cabin of your dreams—all in less than one,zero sq...

"A great book with wonderful designs for smaller homes. Just the inspiration you need to find the right design for a small home for your future needs" (Kent Griswold, TinyHouseBlog.com).Imagine a home that contains everything you need in no more than one,400 square feet. Thoughtfully designed for maximum comfort efficiency, Gerald Rowan's floor plans offer innovative options for building or retrofitting an affordable home that is easy to maintain and environmentall...

If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addi...

A CATACLYSMIC DISASTER STRIKES YOUR AREA. How will you evacuate your family to safety?Do you have a vehicle you can count on?Can it double as a mobile retreat, or do youhave a shelter prepared in advance?What's your plan for reaching the shelter?Bug Out Vehicles and Shelters gives you the vital answers and options for becoming a survivor instead of a refugee:VEHICLES• Prepping fast-escape vehicles• Using specially equipped vehicles for unique situations• Planning for backup vehicles if you...

"An enigmatic woman comes between a toxicologist and a murderer in this hypnotic and disturbing thriller" set in the shadowy fog of San Francisco ( Guardian, UK).Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He's out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down beside him. He talks to Emmeline over absinthe, but their encounter is fleeting. She brushes her lips on his ear and disappears. He ...

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Lewis Carroll's beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance?In After Alice, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzli...

Be Ready When Disaster StrikesIf an unexpected emergency or disaster hits, are you prepared to leave your home--fast? You will be if you follow the advice in this book.This book shows you how to create a self-contained disaster preparedness kit to help you survive your journey from ground zero to a safer location. Survival expert Creek Stewart details from start to finish everything you need to gather for 72 hours of independent survival--w...

Guy Gavriel Kay, bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, once again visits a world that evokes one that existed in our own past, this time the tumultuous period of Renaissance Europe - a world on the verge of war, where ordinary lives play out in the grand scheme of kingdoms colliding.From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates , a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost fam...

It's Jane Austen meets Lara Croft in a 12-book cozy paranormal mystery romp through Victorian Africa.Armed with exquisite etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Miss Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi, Kenya, desperate for a pot of tea. But she’ll need more than that if she’s to unravel a series of increasingly deadly mysteries without being eaten in the process.She must endure all manner of...

Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear and a handful of critical skills, that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term survival ranging from 24-72 hours as well as long-term situations resulting from a grid-down emergency or pandemic. When the Grid Goes Do...

Essential strategies to prepare you in the event of an emergency.If disaster strikes and public services are limited, you want to know that your family will be taken care of. Learn how to inventory and rotate your food supply, pack an evacuation kit, maintain communication with loved ones, and much more. With bestselling author Kathy Harrison's Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens, you'll soon gain the ingenuity and resourcef...