With all the wonderful and strange things that go on in our world, have you ever asked yourself, Why do things happen the way they do? After all the crazy things that Ive done in my life, how is it that I am still alive? Was it coincidence that led me to meet the companion of my dreams? Or, How did I ever fall into this job? The answer is simple. Meet the Field Agents of Fates Rescue. Kyle, Tiffany, Winston, Allan, and thousands of other employees are those who are in charge of manipulatin...

A young high school teacher in Californias East Bay, Erik Walker always knew there was something more to life. Hes not much of an athlete and cant bring himself to express his true feelings for the girl he wants most. Until one day, it all starts to change. Dreams and visions invade his thoughts. Day after day the visitations into his psyche become stronger and more prolific. Erik has been chosen by the old gods of the North to awaken the folk spirit and unite the ancestral lines. As the d...

NO GRID: The Ultimate Survival Bible is the only guide you’ll ever need to thrive in a world without electricity. Packed with over 80 ingenious off-grid living projects, this book shows you how to protect your family and become truly self-sufficient in any crisis.Covering everything from emergency preparedness and home defence to sustainable living and alternative energy, this comprehensive manual is your key to independence — right on your own property.Aut...

A step-by-step guide to building a lifestyle based on independence, security, and sustainability—includes color photos.Build your way to a more self-sufficient lifestyle with step-by-step projects for backup and supplementary utilities—including independent water, heat, and electricity—growing and storing food, raising small livestock, beekeeping, and more. Many of the projects require basic materials available at your everyday home center, but this book also provid...

The apocalypse has hit Monument, Colorado, and Jake Simonsen, captain of the football team, is caught in the middle of it. A series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a terrible chemical weapons spill that affects people differently depending on blood type, has torn the world as he knows it apart. Now Jake has to decide how to pick up the pieces."Jake and the Other Girl," an original story by Emmy Laybourne acquired for Tor.com by Holly West,...

Build your own passive solar greenhouse for year-round food production in any climateThe Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction ...

Enslaved by King Kregant’s army, Dar survived by befriending the fierce orcs who were also forced to serve. Now she has escaped—only to find that the price of freedom may be her destiny.Calling on her untried leadership abilities, Dar guides the surviving orc soldiers to the safety of their homeland—but the clan leaders refuse to accept her unless she can release their queen from Kregant’s fortress. Shaken by her growing gift for dark prophecy and a fate she feels ...

Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants.

Shy ten-year-old Belle Wilson doesn’t like talking much, except to tell spooky stories. She loves to scare her family. But when they move into her great Nana Wilson’s home and they find out the very house they live in may be haunted, everything changes. Belle gets caught in a big mystery. One that involves her dead great grandmother and the Legend of Salmon Beach. Only Nana Wilson’s Chest of Secrets can help Belle solve this mystery. Will she find it before what is haunting the house finds...

Build stylish and functional furniture from salvaged materials. This innovative guide presents dozens of strategies for upcycling scrap cardboard, metal, plastic, or wood into dependable shelving units, sturdy tables, and fun lamps. With directions for 35 easy and inexpensive projects that include a Cardboard Cantilever Chair, a License Plate Bowl, a Conduit Coatrack, and much more, you’ll be inspired to start filling your home with unique high-style furniture that makes sense for both you...

Heat your home with 80% less wood while eliminating smoke, ash, and constant fire-tending. Complete construction manual for building ultra-efficient rocket mass heaters that provide superior comfort, slash heating costs, and burn so cleanly they're legal in smoke-restricted areas.Why Rocket Mass Heaters Outperform Traditional Wood Stoves:Conventional wood stoves waste 60-80% of fuel energy up the chimney. Rocket mass heaters capture and sto...

In this fast-paced sequel to the hot new action series, The Jake Stone Thrillers, Jake is lured into the underground Mexican compound of his deadly nemesis, Arianna Bradshaw, where he must choose between his love for Snowflake and saving his own skin. Helping him decide are three new butt-kicking female assassins, Sandy, Gumdrop and Penelope. Will Jake keep his cool and save the day, or will he once again find himself caught between warring factions in an ever widening international conspi...