"Halloween is a great time to turn Fido and Polly into adorable witches, vampires, and biker babes. But these costumes are so special you'll also find many other occasions for dressing up your best friend"--Page 4 of cover.

Dress up your pooch in the cutest handmade outfits for any occasion! Transform your beloved dog into the king or queen of the dog park with the cutest DIY costumes that will make everyone go double aww. Fabulous Costumes for Fabulous Dogs is the crafty dog owner’s ultimate resource for dressing up your pups in outfits that are guaranteed to melt hearts. Get ideas from fifty adorable canine costumes that can be sewn using felts and fabrics or repurposed from thrift items and crafts. Follow detailed tutorials, with different difficulty levels, using step-by-step photographs. Learn how to tailor your costume to big, medium, and small dogs; make the costume collar- and leash-friendly; copy out ready-made pattern pieces; and create matching outfits for humans and their best friends. Transform your pooches into: Superheroes and Villains Famous icons like Amelia Earhart and Rosie Riveter Fantasy characters: Unicorn, Fairy Princess, and Witch Classic literary characters: Red Riding Hood and Dracula Food: Donut, Strawberry, and Pineapple Everyday humans: Lumberjack, Tourist, Ballerina, and Hippie And more!

Welcome to the plush ¿dog-eat caviar¿ world of haute couture, posh puppy parties, prolific pampering, and the continuing evolution of ¿pup¿ culture. Complete with stunning and glamorous full-color photos, Diva Dogs sheds platinum light on the ultimate Diva lifestyle for four-legged members of high society; written by a real high fashion designer! Features: * The latest doggy fashion trends * Spectaular spa treatments * High-class doggy "petiquette" for fabulous dog parties * Bonus: 150 bakeries, spas, and boutiques catering to diva dogs

Canine Couture with Pooch Personality. Show off your favorite pup's personal style with these adorably adorned outfits. Use fanciful embellishments to transform 1 basic vest pattern into 16 over-the-top costumes for both males and females. 8 projects include outfits for prince and princess, Hawaiian, Mexican, and formal themes, cowpokes, grruffiti artists, and astromutts. Includes full-sized templates for the basic vest pattern in sizes from XS to XL. Create the season's must-have outfits for the well-dressed dog in your life. Fun to make and even more fun to show off, these adorable doggy designs are a great way to use up fabric scraps and try out new embellishing techniques.

Stunned when her fiancé calls off their wedding, Liv Elliot embarks on a life-altering trip to Sydney, Australia, where she finds a new career and new romance, until a chance encounter with Ben Parker, with whom she had indulged in a brief summer fling, turns her life of upside down. Reprint.

America’s favorite comic strip heroine navigates the perils of being a modern woman in this hilarious collection. By now, we’re all familiar with Cathy’s battles among the four basic guilt groups: food, Mom, love, and career. Women can identify with Cathy Guisewite’s hilarious portrayal of the universal struggles of modern femininity. A confirmed chocoholic, Cathy often consoles herself with one more trip to the fridge, then pays for it with frightening excursions in department store dressing rooms. Mom pushes Cathy to find the man who will give her grandchildren. As for her career, Cathy struggles to be a superstar, even though her desk looks like a disaster area. In fact, Cathy’s all-too-recognizable life is what endears her to devoted readers. Her countless fans look on their cartoon heroine as a best friend, someone who really knows the trials and tribulations of the working single woman. From Internet dating to Christmas catalog fiascoes, from winter-flu one-upmanship at the office to kitchen technique discussions with Mom, Cathy puts her finger on the kinds of situations that women face in their real lives on a daily basis. In this Cathy collection, I’d Scream Except I Look So Fabulous, our favorite cartoon character once again shows why her popularity soars. Who can’t relate to the discomfort fashion sometimes dictates in order to be trendy.

14 year-old Gunnie Danson spends the weekend at Wiralee Station, a cattle station that has been in the family since 1848. His late grandfather has left him a box containing a manuscript and a letter that is not to be opened until after Gunnie has read the entire story.